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NICANVEG Midterm Review - Workshop at Winnipeg, MB, Canada
The mid term review-workshop was held at Winnipeg in Canada from 13th may 2013 to 17th May 2013.
Present at the meeting are:
Martin Scanlon - UM
Bob Eilers - UM
Chike Nwoke - OSU - soil fertility management
Adelekun (Francis) - OAU
Ololade – OAU
Dapo Babatunde - OSU - agricultural engineer
Bukola Fakayode - OSU - microbiologist
Duro Oyadele - OAU - PI
Cameron Zywina – UM – International Project Officer, Office of International Relations
Rachel Alao – Executive Director/Program - Helping Hands Resource Centre for Immigrants (third party, UM)
Mulikat Bammeke - UM – project coordinator
Deji Olanike - OAU – gender group
Dana Mount - CBU – gender and women’s studies, environment
Clement Odebooye - OAU - PI
Wole Akinremi - UM – PI
Pascal Sanginga - IDRC – senior program specialist (Nairobi)
The meeting provided an opportunity for Principal Investigators (PI) and team members to communicate and share information critical to the successful completion of the project.
Project Title: Sustainable Production and Utilization of under-utilized Nigerian vegetables to enhance rural food security.
The meeting focused on the following areas
- Updates on planned outputs
- Specifically defined requirements for UIV's to be derived from this project
- Value-added food and nutrition information for women farmers
- Agronomic package foe UIV production
- marketing and economics
- Risk Assessment for project complettion
