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A website that provides information
to small and medium sized seed companies serving East and Southern
African countries. The site includes several links including news
briefs, plant breeding institutions, publications, seed industry
associations and companies, and other information relevant to the seed
industry in East and Southern Africa,
http://www.sodp.org
A website on Quality Education for
Social Transformation (QUEST) program of The Rockefeller Foundation that
seeks to improve the performance of children in primary schools in
Africa, paying specific attention to barriers facing girls. Its focus is
on the learning, practice, and mastery of literacy at primary school by
poor children in rural areas;
http://www.questafrica.org
A website for information and updates
on issues of plant environmental stress, basic educational materials to
newcomers into this area and promoting interaction among those
interested in solving the problem of plants under stress in agriculture
www.plantstress.com
The African Centre for Crop
Improvement, a joint venture by the University of Natal and the
Rockefeller Foundation for the training of African scientists in plant
breeding and plant biotechnology.
http://www.acci.unp.ac.za
A website of the Forum for
Agricultural Resource Husbandry (FORUM), a competitive grants programme
assisting the faculties of agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa in
strengthening M.Sc.student training by providing funds for field
research.
www.ruforum.org
The African Agricultural Technology
Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation facilitating and promoting
partnerships with public and private sector entities to improve
access to existing agricultural technologies that could improve food
security.
http://www.aatf-africa.org
The Partnership for Higher Education
in Africa, an initiative of Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Ford
Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the
Rockefeller Foundation, as a mechanism to provide meaningful assistance
to the renaissance of higher education in Africa
http://www.foundation-partnership.org
The Rockefeller Foundation is
interested in exploring new solutions.
The Foundation has changed the way they consider proposals for grants.
The new process is described in the Grants & Ideas web page,
http://www.rockfound.org/grants/grants.shtml. Interested individuals
and organizations can submit their ideas to the Foundation through an
online submission form at
http://www.rockfound.org/grants/idea_query.aspx.
The Forum for organic Resource
Management and Agricultural Technologies (FORMAT): Reports on
developments and Who is Who in organic resource management in
Kenya, and FORMAT events,
www.formatkenya.org
The website of the Soil Fertility
Management and Policy Network for Maize-based farming systems in
southern Africa, (SOIL FERT NET),
www.soilfertnetsouthernafrica.org
The
CAMBIA Intellectual Property (IP) Resource,
http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50,
developed by a
team with expertise in the areas of biotechnology, intellectual
property, business strategy and informatics. It is funded in part by The
Rockefeller Foundation .
The Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a system of 16 Future
Harvest Centers that work in more than 100 countries to mobilize
cutting-edge science to reduce hunger and poverty, improve human
nutrition and health, and protect the environment.
www.cgiar.org
Disclaimer: The Biotechnology, Breeding Seed Systems Program or
the Rockefeller Foundation does not take any responsibility regarding
information contained in the links listed in this website or its authors.
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