Members from the NextGen Cassava team visited Sierra Leone from 2-5 July 2018 to integrate the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) into NextGen Cassava under the Community of Practice (CoP).
The team members included Alfred Dixon, Chiedozie Egesi, and Peter Kulakow, all from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria. After arriving in Freetown, the team made courtesy calls to SLARI Headquarters, Ministry of Agriculture, and IITA-country office. At SLARI Headquarter, the Director General introduced the team to SLARI management staff and informed the audience about the purpose of the team’s visit to Sierra Leone.
Alfred Dixon, who was also the former Director General of SLARI, highlighted the importance of SLARI as a partnering institution for the NextGen cassava and the TAAT (Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation) projects. Dixon went on further to unveil the prospects of the TAAT project for Sierra Leone in the first year.
