Annual Report 2012 - African Agricultural Technology Foundation

8 AATF Annual Report 2012
Phase I of the project ran from March 2008 to February 2013.
The review was conducted by consultants on behalf of the project
donors, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G. Buffet
Foundation.
l The Bacterial Wilt-Resistant Banana Project partners meet from 11–13
July in Kampala, Uganda to review project progress and plan for 2012
and 2013 activities.
l AATF organises a confined field trial (CFT) compliance management
training in Accra, Ghana on 24 July to enhance the capacity of teams
responsible for managing the Maruca Resistant Cowpea and NEWEST
Rice projects in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Nigeria.
l The WEMA intellectual property and management team holds its review
meeting on 29 July alongside a licensing training in Pretoria, South Africa.
August
l The Striga Control in Maize Project holds a planning and strategy meeting
in Nairobi, Kenya from 13–14 August attended by representatives from
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania including seed companies who reviewed
the status of the Project since its launch in 2006 and also discussed plans
for the 2012 short rains and the 2013 seasons.
l WEMA Project product development team members tour trial sites in
South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania to evaluate drought-tolerant
conventional trials.
The WEMA Project fourth annual review meeting participants during a field visit to smallholder farms
in Limpopo, South Africa in February 2012
Deploying agricultural technologies for farmers