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Natalie D. Hahn (ed.)
in Praise of Cassava
1989. 250 p. 14 x 21 cm. Paperback. UNICEF ISBN 978-30600-1-7
and IITA ISBN 978-131-034-0. IITA/UNICEF Household Food Security
and Nutrition Program. Available from IITA or UNICEF Nigeria
Country Office, 11a Osborne Road, P.O. Box 1282, Ikoyi, Lagos,
Nigeria.
The Interregional Experts’ Group Meeting on the Exchange of Technologies
for Cassava Processing Equipment and Food Production
was held from 13 to 19 April 1988 at IITA. This volume of proceedings
presents papers on cassava food products, improved technologies
for processing of cassava and improved cassava varieties, together
with country reports from Fiji, Ghana, India, and Sierra Leone.
A.S.R. Juo and J.A. Lowe (eds.)
The Wetlands and Rice in Subsaharan Africa
1986.318 p. 15 x 23 cm. Paperback. IITA. Free.
The proceedings of an international conference on wetland utilization
for rice production in sub-Saharan Africa in this volume present
recent advances in research and development of the wetlands and
rice, as well as the feasibility of adapting some of the Asian ricegrowing
techniques to African conditions.
BOOKLETS AND BROCHURES
Laurence D. Stifel
UTA Research for Sustainable Agriculture in Africa
1990. 28 p. 9 x 21 cm. Saddle stitched. ITA. Free.
Twenty-three years ago IlTA was founded with the goal of developing
sustainable agriculturalsystemstoreplace bush fallow, or slash-andburn,
cultivation in tropical Africa, and to increase the productivity of
key food crops in those systems. The present paper, the text of the
director general’s presentation to the CGIAR at International Centers
Week on 2 November 1989, describes how IlTA scientists are
grappling with sustainability problems and what breakthroughs they
have achieved.
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