The annual
workshop of the AFROweeds project was held, 27–30 June in Cotonou to discuss
with project partners the progress made and future activities. It was attended
by 23 participants. The AFROweeds project aims at establishing a viable African–European
weed science network, consolidating existing knowledge on weed management by
building a user-friendly web-based platform on weeds of West and East African
lowland rice-cropping systems and enhancing the exploitation and dissemination
of good weed management practices in lowland rice-cropping systems.
It is jointly
carried out by CIRAD, France and AfricaRice with support from the European
Union (EU) and the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of
states (ACP) Science and Technology Program.
