Dear <<First Name>>,
We are pleased to share with you the 13th edition of The Resource giving you the latest news from the Institute. A full list of our news stories can be found on our website at www.nri.org.
   May 2013
NRI cassava project boosts incomes of world's poorest farmers
Over 90,000 of the world's poorest farmers, many of them women living on less than a dollar a day, are taking advantage of new opportunities to increase their incomes thanks to the C:AVA (Cassava: Adding Value for Africa) project. The ambitious international collaboration, led by NRI, has developed a network of 103 organisations in 5 African countries, who are working together to enable small-holders to gain more income through value addition to one of their main crops, cassava. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project supports the small-holders to turn cassava into High Quality Cassava Flour. An overview of C:AVA is presented in the new video: http://vimeo.com/nri/cavaproject
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Progress review meeting held for Gratitude project - reducing waste from root and tuber crops
All partners from the EU FP7 project 'Gratitude' gathered recently in Bangkok, Thailand to conduct a successful mid-term review planning meeting. 'Gratitude' is investigating solutions in west Africa and south east Asia that will reduce waste from post-harvest losses of root and tuber crops, and turn unavoidable waste into something of value. During the meeting, interesting findings were presented on several aspects, including expanding small-scale mushroom production in Ghana that could benefit from using cassava peel in the substrate, and the production of fructose syrup from cassava starch in Thailand.
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Keith Tomlins Inaugural lecture - Food quality and acceptance in Africa
Keith Tomlins, Professor of Food Science at NRI, and international expert on tropical root and tuber crops, will be giving his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on Wednesday 12th June 2013 at Medway. In his lecture, Keith will be exploring how resource-poor people can and should have access to foods of the right quality that are also acceptable to their culture. The lecture will draw upon Keith's experiences over the past 25 years, including work on a wide range of commodities from maize to orange-fleshed sweet potato.
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Parliamentarians urge government to invest in agriculture
In their report on "Home Grown Nutrition" parliamentarians of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development are calling on the UK Government, and specifically the Department for International Development, to invest in agriculture to combat the hunger and undernourishment faced by 925 million people around the world. In the report, a HarvestPlus project, in which NRI is a contributing partner, is used as an example of successful 'Home Grown Nutrition'.
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