Gambia

Research information from infosysplus.org: Organisations and projects in Gambia

Projects with partners - Gambia (4)

• African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE)

  The African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) is a network of 127 educational institutions in Africa whose objective is to strengthen the teaching of multi-disciplinary approaches to land management. The ANAFE Coordination Unit is hosted at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi. This provides a vantage for network management, linkages with the research and development activities of ICRAF and its partners, and convenient communication facilities.

• Farmer Field Schools in the Small Ruminant Research Project

  Farmer Field Schools allow the farmer to take up his role as primary reseracher in the study of trypanotolerant small ruminants.

• Improving the management of trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa: a coordinated regional study

  Major Research Domain: Trypanosomosis, trypanocide resistance, agro-pastoral production systems Priorities: 3, 4 Goal: Improve the sustainability of smallholder agro-pastoral production systems in West Africa Purpose: Ensure the efficacy of trypanocides as a component of integrated control of trypanosomosis in the cotton zone of West Africa

• Preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa (Phase II)

  Goal: To protect and improve the sustainable livelihoods of resource-poor livestock keepers in agro-pastoral production systems Purpose: To enhance the current and future efficacy of trypanocides as an effective component of improved integrated trypanosomosis control strategies