A press item published on Walta Information Center web page during the ‘AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair’ event held in Addis Ababa from 18-21 October 2010

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WALTA Information Center  Wednesday, 20 October 2010   Local knowledge said vital to boost Africa’s productivity, curb climate change problem   Addis Ababa, October 20 (WIC) – The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) said sharing and using African indigenous agricultural knowledge have a great role to boost and guarantee the continent’s productivity and curb climate change problem.    Speaking at the opening of a three-day Share Fair Knowledge Workshop, ILRI Forage Diversity Leader, Dr Jean Hanson said exchanging information and sharing knowledge among African farmers are vital to solve their problem with their local knowledge.   Dr Hanson said the share fair, which is the first practical workshop in its kind in the continent, provides the possibility to dive deeply into four thematic areas, namely climate change, land, livestock and water.   Head of Knowledge Management and Information Services at ILRI and Organizer of the Fair Share, Peter Ballantyne, said the event is organized to gather agriculture practitioners and people in the field of knowledge as well as share knowledge among African countries. More than 300 participants drawn from all parts of the continent are in attendance of the three-day workshop. Ethiopian farmers on the occasion displayed their agricultural products.   Participants of the workshop said that this kind of knowledge sharing event would help enhance the people to people relations among Africans. 

Local knowledge said vital to boost Africa’s productivity, curb climate change problem

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Local knowledge said vital to boost Africa’s productivity, curb climate change problem

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