CGMap Ongoing Research in Africa Projects Summary

This summary looks at the number of projects entered in the map, countries where projects are reported to be working and the research area that the projects focus on. Data was extracted on July 06, 2010

CGMap ongoing research in Africa: empowering, informative, exciting

COLLECTIVE ACTION NEWS is an e-publication of the CGIAR’s Regional Collective Action in Eastern and Southern Afric

Connecting the dots: online maps for improved access to information on agricultural research projects

COLLECTIVE ACTION NEWS is a periodical e-publication of the CGIAR’s Regional Collective Action in Eastern and Southern Afric

Regional Collective Action Wraps Up

After four years, the Regional Collective Action Programme has come to an end. In this final issue of Collective Action News, we report on how Regional Collective Action activities have supported the work of the Consortium and the CRPs. The Regional Collective Action Programme has been described by Carlos Seré, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), which has hosted the Programme since its inception in 2007, as ‘a bold experiment that achieved considerable success in promoting collaborative action in eastern and southern Africa that has now been overtaken by the process of CGIAR reform’. Many of the activities started under the Programme have now been incorporated into the CGIAR Consortium and the CGIAR Research Programmes (CRPs)

Report on CGIAR Research in Africa Evaluation Survey

This report summarizes findings of the CGIAR Research in Africa survey conducted between September and October 2009. The map, a project database of the research projects carried out by CGIAR Centers in Africa was launched and made online to CG centers staff and other users in February 2009 with the aim of making research information publicly accessible to all CGIAR staff and other key stakeholders in the region in order to facilitate information sharing, promote partnership opportunities and collective action. Besides trying to get feedback from the users on the map, the survey also sought to establish the level of awareness on the map, harmonize the key primary areas of research as well identify new areas of improvement

Regional collective action: achievements to date

COLLECTIVE ACTION NEWS is a periodical e-publication of the CGIAR’s Regional Collective Action in Eastern and Southern Afric

South Africa to Burkina Faso: African agricultural innovation in a changing global environment

COLLECTIVE ACTION NEWS is an e-publication of the CGIAR’s Regional Collective Action in Eastern and Southern AfricaThis was the theme that brought together more than 700 hundred diverse participants for the 5th Agriculture Science Week and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) General Assembly, held 19-24 July 2010 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The FARA Science Week has become a major event in the African agriculture scene and has successfully expanded its stakeholder base beyond the national agricultural research systems to include NGO, government, farmer organization and some private sector participants, as well as several ministers of agriculture