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ASTI Holds Dissemination Workshop

     The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), through its project, the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI), on the...

SAIRLA Hosts Army Worm Symposium

   CSIR-STEPRI has hosted a one day symposium to discuss the effects of the fall army worm on Agriculture in the country. Since early 2016, the Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera Frugiperda) has been reported to be devastating crops, mainly maize in Africa. This moth, originally a native of the...

Gender Responsive ICT-Enabled Agriculture

     The CSIR-STEPRI has again successfully executed another project on Gender Responsive ICT-Enabled Agricultural Extension and Services Delivery. The use of Information and Communication...

BioRAPP Inaugurates Steering Committee

     The Biotechnology and Biosafety Rapid Assessment and Policy Platform (BioRAPP) inaugurated its...

STEPRI & GATCI Launches Ghana Made Boxers

       Mrs Gifty Twum Ampofo, Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mr Robert Ahomka-Lindsay, Ms Gifty Kekeli Klenam, Chief Executive Officer Ghana Export Promotion Authority, assisted Mrs Felicia Manu Quaye,Team Leader, Garment and Textile Cluster Initiative (GATCI) and Dr George O. Essegbey Director of CSIR-STEPRI to launch Made in Ghana Boxer shorts by GATCI On the 9th of August 2017. The event was part of GATCI`s efforts to assist in reviving the garment and texttile industry The boxer shorts were desinged and tailored by Ghanaian tailors and dressmakers. They were made from African fabrics....

PARI National Policy Roundtable

    As part of its participation in the PARI (Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation), CSIR-STEPRI hosted FARA, ZEF, IFPRI and other Sub Regional Organizations (SROs) involved in the project to undertake a two day National Policy Round table  here in Accra.

CSIR-STEPRI Institutes DRIPs

The Science and Technology Policy Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-STEPRI) has been organizing Research Seminars dubbed "Development Research in Progress seminars (DRIPs)." This aims at providing a platform for Scientists at the Institute and others from other organizations/Institutes to share their ongoing research work a community of experts and in exchange receive inputs to enrich their research and publications. These seminars are organized two monthly...

CSIR- STEPRI Holds 2nd Open Day

       The CSIR-STEPRI has held its second Open Day this year. This annual event is being used by the institute as advocacy tool and communication strategy to raise awareness of its activities in the development, transfer, and utilization as well as the management of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for addressing societal needs, within the context of national development. The event was held under the theme, ‘Strengthening Research, Policy and Industry Linkages: An Agenda for Enhanced National Development,’ to reflect the...

CSIR-STEPRI Hosts S3A

   The Science and Technology Policy Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-STEPRI) is over the next four days (11th -14th July 2017) hosting the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) to organize National Consultations on...

STEPRI Attends Climate Change Workshop

     CSIR-STEPRI was inivited by the Chinese Government to participate in the “Climate Change and Green Low-Carbon Development Seminar”...

CSIR-STEPRI Scientists Train for BioRapp

It has been hinted that already in many African countries population growth is outpacing that of food production. This suggests that in the wake of a period where most agricultural land interestingly continue to loss its fertility due to overexploitation, and the few fertile lands remaining compete with other uses of land such as road construction, illegal mining of minerals, building infrastructure among others, adoption of new...