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A regional enterprise to commercialize an integrated technology for waste water treatment and biowaste conversion in eastern Africa
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Preamble In the wake of urbanization and rapidly expanding agro-process businesses [such as slaughterhouses, tanneries, breweries, and others], environmental pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and contamination of water sources due to inadequate waste management have become the norm. There is generally little awareness on the environmental and socio-economic consequences of polluting the environment, since […]
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Dr Peggy Oti-Boateng
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Dr Oti-Boateng is the Senior Programme Specialist for Science and Technology and serves as the Coordinator for the African Network of scientific and Technological Institutions (ANSTI) in the UNESCO Multi-Sectoral Regional Office in Harare, Zimbabwe. Dr. Oti-Boateng has over 32 years working experience in teaching, research, and development of technologies for sustainable development and STI […]
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Africa RISING farming technologies reach 60,000 households in Ethiopia
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands has reached over 60,000 beneficiaries in the first year of the project’s second phase. In a recent interview with the Ethiopian Herald newspaper, Kindu Mekonnen, senior scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the project’s coordinator in Ethiopia, said that the project has reached more than […]
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East African dairy farmers earning more from market linkages to milk processors
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Staff of Kinyogoga Dairy Farmers’ Cooperative Society in Uganda pour milk into a cooler. This is one of several milk chilling plants set up under the EADD project (photo credit: EADD). The demand for high-value food items such as meat and dairy products is on the rise in East Africa. However, productivity-enhancing services such as […]
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Business incubation a means for effective business development
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
BioInnovate Africa Programme organised a Business Incubation Model Development Workshop from 26 – 28 February, 2018, in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop was for the BioInnovate Africa Programme Category 2 business incubation project teams, to strengthen their capacity for professional business incubation as one of the routes to commercialize their innovative biological-based technologies and/or products. The […]
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What sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems looks like in Ethiopia–case of the Africa RISING project
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
In this video, Peter Thorne, the Africa RISING project coordinator in Ethiopia, and Melkamu Bezabih, a postdoctoral livestock feeds and nutrition researcher, talk about sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems in Ethiopia in the Africa RISING project. This video was recorded during an international exchange visit organized near Debre Birhan (one of the research sites […]
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