Comments for BioInnovate Africa

Comment on Dr. Seyoum Leta appointed BioInnovate Program Manager by Minale

Minale — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:37:07 +0000

I am so late to hear this, wish you all the best, Minale

Comment on New Biosciences Innovation Program to fight food insecurity, climate change and environmental degradation across east Africa to be launched in Nairobi next week by Melkamu Ayalew Seman

Melkamu Ayalew Seman — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:02:31 +0000

Graduate students lacking funds for research need to be supported to generate reliable information.

Comment on Dr. Seyoum Leta appointed BioInnovate Program Manager by Alemu Tebeje

Alemu Tebeje — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:54:31 +0000

Dear Seyoum,

Congraulations on your success. I am proud of being one of your colleagues at the ESTC years back.

Comment on Researchers target orphan crops in EA food security drive by tilahun wondimu

tilahun wondimu — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:12:01 +0000

i like orphan crops. i am breeder in one of Ethiopian agricultural research institute.currently, i am studying my MSc in plant breeding and i want to do my thesis on orphan crop still that is not considered by any institution. The crop is ‘Anchote’ or Coccinia absynicca. it has many social, cultural, medicinal and economical value in south and western Ethiopia. though i like the crop and it is my interest to work my thesis on it, i am hand-caped with the research fund. if any please, say something the way i can search research grant .

Comment on BioInnovate receives additional grant from the Swedish International Development Agency for projects targeting climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa by Micheal Mudega

Micheal Mudega — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:24:41 +0000

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a youth pastor in Revival and Salvation Apostolic Ministries and we have developed an Idea on Climate change under the youth name of One Arm to Many. We have looked at how people are destroying trees because of Charcoal and firewood and we have started experiencing long droughts, we have got many things that can help us achieve this but resources have limited us.
We have Charcoal briquettes to substitute charcoal and compressed fire wood, this will be made out of wastes like Coffee husks, Maize cobs, Cassava wastes, Sugarcane wastes, Rice husks, G/nut shells, and many others which are in abundance here in Africa.
We have even energy saving stoves
We are forming people in groups of 20 with the aim of replanting the trees, say if we say each group has to plant 40 trees and maintain them, it becomes easier as one can easily maintain 2 trees, on this we hope that as time comes and we get them machines like Sugarcane juice making machine, Rice Husker, Maize sheller, and Coffee husker, they can be employed, generate some income to enable them educate their children and also supply to us the Residuals freely instead of employing people to collect them at a pay which would increase the cost of production to fail our cause of saving trees.

We are kindly requesting for your advise on this Issue where we can get funds to support this Idea.

N.B We have a proposal on this

God bless you

Comment on Dar es Salaam to benefit from EAC food research grant by Adedokun Simeon O

Adedokun Simeon O — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:15:13 +0000

Iam a lecturer at Polythecnic Ibadan, Oyo state in the Department of Food Scince and Technology. We are interested in assisting local women farmers in Oyo North of Nigeria (a Known Food basket of Nigeria) in their areas of processing yam and cassava to various dried products in which drying problem has been identified for their poor quality and unsafe products production. We have a proposal and we are looking for assistant on this project.In which areas can we be asisted by your organisation?
Thanks.

Comment on New Program Aims to Spur State-of-the-Art Biosciences Innovation to Fight Food Insecurity, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation across Eastern Africa by alfred astalco akama

alfred astalco akama — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:36:19 +0000

thank you so much.i have been looking for people like you to work together for sustainability livelihoods in my district.iam the chairman for men for gender equality now in kisii county and in charge of twenty groups registered with different program activities in surrounding districts,namely :gucha,nyamache,sameta,nyacheki,kenyenya,gucha south,south kisii,kisii central,marani and manga districts respectively.what can i do .please advise how you can visit these groups and train us on the ways to improve and forge ahead.activities range from tree nursary planting,poultry,cassava,sweet potatoes,horticultural products,sugarcanes,sorghum and bananas.thanks once again for the good work you are doing,but how do we reach you?for technical support and capacity building.
yours
alfred pastor.

Comment on BioInnovate: Competitive funding mechanism for biosciences innovation in East Africa by Jane Mbugua

Jane Mbugua — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:55:22 +0000

Hi
I would like to know when is the next call for proposals in theme 1 and the requirements.
Jane

Comment on New Biosciences Innovation Program to fight food insecurity, climate change and environmental degradation across east Africa to be launched in Nairobi next week by Melaku Jirata

Melaku Jirata — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:32:45 +0000

Please try to involve development practitioners in some of the programs that are strongly linked with grass root development programs that benefit the wider community.

Melaku

Comment on New Biosciences Innovation Program to fight food insecurity, climate change and environmental degradation across east Africa to be launched in Nairobi next week by Sylvester Lyantagaye

Sylvester Lyantagaye — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:08:20 +0000

That is a great idea!