The SERA Sustainable Rural Development Task Team's Mopani Processing Project has almost reached the end of its first year since its official inception. The main focus has been the development of human capacity and value addition.
ACGT Director, Dr Jane Morris has recently been appointed to the BIO-EARN advisory committee. BIO-EARN is the East African regional programme and research network for biotechnology and is funded by SIDA.
The Bio-artificial liver support system project has progressed in leaps and bounds. Established to develop a novel system that will assist patients suffering from acute liver failure, the project has made a number of notable strides towards their goal.
Power struggles in the fight against TB and HIV - The division between global programmes to fight TB and HIV is undermining the fight against the two diseases - but there are signs of change
Source: SciDev.Net
Continent develops common S&T action plan
- Africa has developed a consolidated action plan on science and technology that integrates the programmes and projects of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) into the structures of the African Union.
Source: AllAfrica.com
SADC workshop to protect Indigenous Knowledge Systems - The protection of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) comes under the spotlight at a three-day workshop in Zambia.
Source: AllAfrica.com
