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Dr Francisco Reifschneider (left), Director, CGIAR, and Dr Lindsay Innes (right), outgoing Board Chair, during the former’s visit to Bamako, Mali, on 27 February 2003
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News and Notes
Milestones
23rd Meeting of the Board of Trustees, Bamako, Mali, 24–28 February 2003
Board with His Excellency Seydou Traore, Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Government of Mali (front row, second from left)
Retrieval of duplicate samples of rice germplasm from the WARDA gene bank for storage in a risk-free zone.
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New Chairman Board of Trustees
Prof. Richard Musangi |
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New Vice-Chairman Board of Trustees
Dr Edwin C Price
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Head of Genetic Resources Unit
Dr Gouantoueu Guei
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African Rice Initiative (ARI) Coordinator Dr Inoussa Akintayo |
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 Workshop
The ‘First workshop on iron toxicity in rice-based systems in West Africa’, jointly organized by WARDA, CTA, the Inland Valley Consortium, and the Rice Network, ROCARIZ, was held in Cotonou, Benin, 19–21 March 2003.
Seventeen researchers from Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, France, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and WARDA attended the workshop to discuss the problem of iron toxicity, which is a widespread nutrient disorder of lowland rice in West Africa. |
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