CILY has had an important environmental impact in the coconut-growing areas of Grand-Lahou since the late 1990’s when the first symptoms were spotted in the village of Palmindustrie V1, and since its very first outbreak.
This brief describes programmes of research by the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) and presents emerging findings from the program’s first five years, in topics such as: new vaccines against livestock diseases (Sub-Saha