How agricultural research reduces poverty

New investment in small-scale agriculture would help Canada achieve its foreign-aid goals.

Morris Agaba, scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, pictured in 2009. ILRI is tackling livestock-related problems faced by small-scale farmers in Kenya and elsewhere, writes Paul Hagerman.AusAID photograph by Kate Holt

Opinion

BY PAUL HAGERMAN

August 10, 2016

On the dusty backroads of Kenya, farmers with one or two acres of land talked about some of the difficulties they face: a disease in cassava, inadequate fodder for their animals, degraded soils and moulds in maize. And in two world-class research centres nearby, scientists from the Consultative Grou...

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