Project Bio-Data

Paper drafted by:
Karim Hussein, Research Fellow, Rural Policy and Environment Group, ODI, Overseas Development Institute, Portland House, Stag Place, London SW1E 5DP. E-mail: k.hussein@odi.org.uk

Coordinating institutions: Overseas Development Institute assisted by ITAD Ltd. (Karim Hussein) and CIRAD-TERA, Montpellier (Pierre-Marie Bosc, Michel Dulcire, Christian Bourdel, Nicole Sibelet)

Collaborators: CORAF-WECARD, Dakar, Senegal (Jean Zoundi, INERA, Burkina Faso)
Jeannot Engola Oyep (Cameroonian Consultant)

Funders: UK DFID, French Ministère de la Coopération, EC (DGXII)(Dakar stakeholder workshop only)

Duration of project: 1996 - 1999

Region / Countries studied: West and Central Africa (The Gambia, Ghana, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Uganda – with additional study commissioned on Nigeria)