Annual Report 2012 - African Agricultural Technology Foundation
Annual Report 2012 - African Agricultural Technology Foundation
Annual Report 2012 - African Agricultural Technology Foundation
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<strong>2012</strong> Highlights<br />
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Participants who attended the AATF strategy refresh workshop in Nairobi in May <strong>2012</strong><br />
l The Striga Control in Maize Project holds a farmers’ field day in Tanga,<br />
Tanzania on 24 August that was attended by over 200 farmers, project<br />
partners and extension personnel.<br />
September<br />
l The WEMA Project holds the second regional stakeholder meeting<br />
in Nairobi, Kenya from 10–13 September that is attended by over 40<br />
key stakeholders from the five project countries including members<br />
of parliament, policy makers, WEMA champions, seed companies<br />
and associations representatives, farmer groups and the media. The<br />
stakeholders discussed the Project’s plans to deploy the WEMA<br />
conventional and transgenic drought-tolerant and insect protected<br />
maize varieties as the Project moves into Phase II (2013–2018).<br />
l The WEMA Project deployment team holds a workshop on the WEMA<br />
conventional products on 13 September that are expected to be released<br />
in 2013. The workshop is attended by 31 participants who also had an<br />
opportunity to evaluate promising WEMA conventional hybrids at<br />
Kiboko field station in Makindu, Kenya.<br />
October<br />
l OFAB launches its sixth chapter in Burkina Faso on 22 October at an<br />
event attended by over 50 participants including representatives from<br />
government and biotech stakeholders. This is the first OFAB chapter<br />
Deploying agricultural technologies for farmers
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