West african seeds and planting material
Newsletter of the West Africa Seed Network (WASNET)
This is the eighth issue of West Africa Seed and Planting Material, WASNET addresses the needs and problems in the seed and planting material sectors in West African countries and brings together seed personnel from West Africa in a structure, in order to encourage them working together to strengthen national and regional seed industry development. In this issue (n° 8 - 2001) there are three articles about roots and tubers in Ghana, addressing the following aspects: procedures for the release of crop varieties, certification of planting materials, and propagation of crops by tissue culture. Three articles are describing the cassava production in these following countries: Benin, Guinea and Togo. Two articles describe the root and tuber crops in Burkina Faso and Chad, and one is focusing on Yam cultivation in Guinea.
Newsletter archive(8th edition)www.wasnet.org/newsletter/archive/index.htm
- RCPMI’s report on cassava equipment makers in Ghana
- The RCPMI publishes a regional catalogue on the equipment of cassava
- Promotion of the cassava chain in Burkina Faso: the case of the attiéké value chain
- Genetic modification of cassava for enhanced starch
- Participation of the Poor in Agricultural Value Chain: Cassava case in Vietnam
- International Workshop on the Potential of Cassava Processing in West Africa
- Making markets work better for the poor
- PNDRT – Cameroon – Yam storing and production technical guide
- Gene Conserve
- Report on the Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR
- Roots and Tubers in the global food system: a vision statement to the year 2020
- A cassava industrial revolution in Nigeria : the potential for a new industrial crop
- Cassavabiz.org : IITA Integrated Cassava Project website