Posted in NEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Sep 1st, 2010
Some time back, we argued against top‐down approaches. But we also said that fruitful knowledge exchange was a two‐way street. Confused? Clarification: Roots for Relevance. Stars to Scale up.
We want STRONG ROOTS to grow from the bottom up. Like Honorables Mamadou Simpara and Sounkoutoun Sissoko, MPs for Banamba and Diema Districts, Mali. They will champion [...]
Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS on May 24th, 2010
Et la réponse est?… Un instant. Laissez-nous vous raconter une histoire d’abord. Une histoire à ré-inventer la roue… ou peut-être pas.
Il était une fois, une grosse tempête, quelque part dans le Dakota du Sud. Ce n’était pas l’orage providentiel dont les fermiers rêvaient après plusieurs vilaines sécheresses. Elle était noire. Elle était sèche. Elle était vicieuse. Mauvaise.
Posted in NEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Feb 25th, 2010
Remember your last physical checkup? The nurse took a blood sample and off it dashed to the lab. What happened next is oblivious to many of us. In fact, we only worry about the results. Complete blood counts. Cholesterol. Signs of anemia. Hints of diabetes. WE WANT STRONG HEALTH. Well today, we’re going to show you [...]
Posted in NEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Feb 25th, 2010
Petit flash-back sur votre dernière visite médicale? L’infirmière vous prélève un échantillon de sang et hop, direction le labo. Direttissimo. Ce qui se passe après? On en sait trop rien. Tout ce qu’on veut savoir, c’est les résultats. Bilan sanguin. Cholestérol. Anémie. Signes de diabète. SANTE DE CHEVAL. Eh bien aujourd’hui, on va vous montrer ce [...]
Posted in NEWS on Feb 11th, 2010
The direct impacts of drought and other extreme climatic events include reduced crop, rangeland, and forest productivity; a reduction in crop productivity results in less income for farmers, increased prices for food, unemployment, and migration.
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) saved throusands of villagers from incurring heaving losses when natural calamities [...]
Posted in NEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Feb 4th, 2010
Why is very high resolution imagery PIVOTAL for the smallholder farmers that we are? Wait a minute… Why is it, in fact, so critically important to anchor and trigger agricultural growth through community geospatial infrastructures and boosted precision agriculture?
Because the world is changing. Because mankind is growing, and its offspring, higher rural population densities and [...]
Posted in NEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Feb 4th, 2010
Pourquoi l’imagerie à très haute résolution (THR) serait-elle LA CLE pour nous, petits producteurs? Un instant… Pourquoi est-ce, en fait, si important de booster l’agriculture de précision à travers une infrastructure géo-spatiale communautaire pour ancrer, accélérer la croissance agricole ? Parce que le monde change. Parce que l’humanité grossit, et que son corollaire, densités de [...]
Posted in INTERVIEWS, QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Nov 19th, 2009
West African smallholder farmers are witnessing unpredictable changes in their land. Some are noticing that their soil is not as fertile as it used to be, and in some places, where there was once soil, there are now barren patches – useless for planting anything but uncertainty and fear for their future livelihoods.
Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Sep 25th, 2009
REMEMBER ROME? They conquered Greece (with their warfare), and then the Greeks conquered the Romans (with their culture).Meaning, successful confrontation of know-how and know-ledge is always a two-way street. You trade technology for expertise. Insights for forethoughts. MOTIVES FOR CLUES.
Posted in QUICKWIN PROJECTS on Sep 24th, 2009
H.E. Agathane Ag Alassane, the Minister of Agriculture of Mali toured the IER-Sotuba Regional Agronomic Research Center on Thursday 24 September as part of a preparatory site visit for the upcoming October AGRA-PASS General Meetings in Bamako, Mali.
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