JIRCAS Report - Guinea
JIRCAS Bilateral Meeting with the President of Guinea
JIRCAS President Dr. Masa Iwanaga had a bilateral meeting with President Alpha Condé of the Republic of Guinea on August 26, 2016. Pres. Iwanaga who is visiting the Republic of Kenya to attend the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi, Kenya as a member of the Prime Minister's economic mission.
Directors of Agricultural Research Institutes in Africa Visit JIRCAS
The heads of 5 agricultural research institutes from Africa, namely, Dr. Famoï Béavogui, Director of Agricultural Research Institute of Guinea (IRAG); Dr. Alioune Fall, Director of Senegal Agricultural Research Institute (ISRA); Dr. Joseph G. Mureithi, Deputy Director of Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO); and Dr. Robert B. Zougmore, African Regional Leader of the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), together with Dr. Regina Sagoe West, Senior Researcher at Crop Research Institute (CSIR-CRI) and Coordinator of West African Agricultural Production Program (WAAPP) of the International Research Center for Semiarid Tropical Crops (ICRISAT), visited JIRCAS on August 28, 2017.
JIRCAS signs MOU with the Agricultural Research Institute of Guinea
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for research cooperation between JIRCAS and the Agricultural Research Institute of Guinea (IRAG) was signed on October 8, 2017.
Workshop for joint research between Guinea agriculture institute and JIRCAS
A workshop for joint research between the Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée (IRAG) and JIRCAS was held on November 7, 2018 at the JIRCAS Headquarters in Tsukuba.
President of the Republic of Guinea visits JIRCAS
H.E. Professor Alpha Condé, president of the Republic of Guinea, visited JIRCAS on June 19, 2017 during his official trip to Japan.