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Usaid/Mali Awards $5 M Associate Cooperative Agreement To Intsormil For Food Insecurity Mitigation In Mali, West Africa, Kimberly Christiansen
Usaid/Mali Awards $5 M Associate Cooperative Agreement To Intsormil For Food Insecurity Mitigation In Mali, West Africa, Kimberly Christiansen
INTSORMIL Impacts and Bulletins
Dr. John Yohe, Program Director of the “Sorghum, Millet and other Grains Collaborative Research Support Program” (INTSORMIL) announces receipt from the USAID Mission in Mali, West Africa, of a $5 million grant to expand the activities of the current project “Transfer of Sorghum, Millet Production, Processing and Marketing Technologies in Mali.” Subsistence and resource poor farmers in West Africa are dependent on sorghum and millet as they serve as basic human foods and livestock feed. There continues to be a shortage of sorghum and millet grain in Mali, especially in the north. Mali’s ‘Hungry Season’ has been described as “that …