An ambitious development partnership aimed at strengthening agricultural collaboration between Africa and Brazil was launched at the 5th African Agriculture Science Week in Burkina Faso last week (21 July).
The initiative -- the Africa-Brazil Agriculture Innovation Marketplace -- recently announced in Brazil, and now formally launched, aims to enhance South--South knowledge and technology transfer and stimulate policy dialogue between the two regions.
It will also promote collaborative research projects, according to Paulo Duarte, technical coordinator at Embrapa, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. He told SciDev.Net that funding for joint project proposals with Embrapa for the coming two years will be approved at a meeting in Brazil in October. Up to seven projects will be selected from more than 40 proposals already submitted.
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