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| October-December
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News
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Milestones
Signing of the MoU between WARDA and
the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO),
Entebbe, Uganda
Research Days 2003, Samanko, Mali
8-12 December 
Annual General Meeting 2003,
Nairobi, Kenya,
28-31 October
Workshops
Participants of the Integrated Irrigation-Aquaculture Workshop for West Africa, Bamako, Mali,
4-7 November
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New and old faces at WARDA |
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Executive Officer
Dr Samuel Bruce-Oliver
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Soil Fertility Agronomist
Dr Sylvester Oikeh
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IVC Coordinator
Dr Philippe Morant
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Assistant Director of Research
Dr Ousmane Youm |
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US Ambassador to
Mali, Vicki Huddleston, visits WARDA, Bamako,
Mali,
6 November
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 Conscious of the potential of Integrated
Irrigation- Aquaculture (IIA) for improving food security in drought-prone West African countries, FAO and IVC, jointly organized a workshop focused on IIA for West Africa, 4-7 November 2003 in Bamako, Mali, under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishery, Government of Mali.
Thirty representatives from 10 West African countries participated in the workshop, which had Resource Persons from FAO, the WorldFish Center, DFID, Wageningen University, UNESCO-IHE, APDRA, University of Newcastle and
CNRA.
A training workshop on
Project Proposal Writing was organized in English and in French
in Bamako, Mali, 27 October – 7 November 2003
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