The project will further build the regulatory, supervision and quality assurance capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and agriculture institutes to support the production, distribution and marketing of seed / planting materials to EU standards.

13. Calls on the FAO, in cooperation with international research institutes, to promote agricultural research and research into new technologies, which should always be tailored to local conditions with a view to improving agricultural productivity in the developing countries;

7. Calls on the FAO, in cooperation with international research institutes, to promote agricultural research and research into new technologies, including biotechnology, which should always be tailored to local conditions with a view to improving agricultural productivity in the developing countries;

The amount of time required for the implementation of this resolution is incompatible with the seriousness of the situation in which the beekeeping sector finds itself. This problem is largely due to a catastrophic mortality rate caused by two systemic pesticides — imidaclopride and fipronil — which are used to coat the seeds of arable crops and which (as proven by the French National Agricultural Research Institute of Avignon-Montfavet (INRA) and the analyses carried out by the French National Scientific Research Centre in Orléans (CNRS) showing the presence at toxic levels of imidaclopride in maize and sunflower pollens) are harmful no ...[+++]t only to the crops treated, but also to future crops since the active substances remain in crop residues buried in the soil, and subsequently in the humus.

Following the favourable opinion delivered by the EDF Committee, the Commission has decided that the projects listed below should be financed. BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE Support to IRAZ (Institut 6th EDF ECU 2 430 000 de Recherche Agronomique GRANT et Zootechnique) GITEGA - BURUNDI The purpose of this project is to provide IRAZ (Institut de Recherche Agronomique et Zootechnique), an institute of the CEPGL (Communauté Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs consisting of Burundi, Rwanda and Zaïre) with its own administrative building, three la ...[+++]boratories and a maintenance workshop in Gitega, Burundi.

In 1990, I was a visiting scientist with the Institut national de recherche agronomique in France and started to learn something about systems theory and how it could apply to rural issues.