TRIP REPORT
AfricaLink/WARDA
Support for Agricultural Research Networking
April 1999

• WARDA has some $50,000 remaining from its grant of $310,000 from PSGE.

• WARDA expects to disburse these funds by June of this year.
• A portion of the funds will be reserved to pay costs for a seminar for coordinators of the WARDA rice task forces, plus the coordinator of WECAMAN, all of whom are based at WARDA.
• Remaining funds will be disbursed to resolve Internet connectivity problems at problematic sites, such as Nyankpala outside Tamale, home of the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), which at present has only a problematic radio phone.

Contacts:

• Dr. Brent Simpson, Head of the Systems Development and Technology Transfer Program, b.simpson@cgiar.org
• Mr. Alassane Diallo, Head of the Information Technology Center, a.diallo@cgiar.org
• Dr. Amir Kasam, Deputy Director General for Programs
• Dr. Kanwar L. Sahrawat, Soil Chemist, Member of the Rice Natural Resource Management Task Force, Tel 631005, k.sahrawat@cgiar.org
• Dr. Yacouba Sere, Phytopathologiste, Facilitator of the Rice Integrated Pest Management Task Force, y.sere@cgiar.org
• Dr. Baffour Badu Apraku, IITA WECAMAN Network Coordinator, b.badu-apraku@cgiar.org
• Dr. Timothy Dalton, Facilitator of the Rice Economics Task Force, t.dalton@cgiar.org
• Dr. Monty Jones, Facilitator of the Rice Breeders Task Force