01315nam a2200241 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902200140006010000220007424500780009626000610017450001990023552004740043465000390090865000110094765000160095865000160097465000110099065300130100165300180101465300250103270000160105720855102018-01-16       2017    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a1022-63031 aDI STEFANO, J. G.  aTransfer of Brazilian Technologies to West Africa.h[electronic resource]  aThe ICAC Recorder, v. 35, n. 4, p. 14-19, Decemberc2017  aPaper presented at the Technical Seminar on ?Opportunities and Challenges for Technology Transfer in Cotton? during the 76th Plenary Meeting of ICAC at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. October 22-27, 2017.  aBrazil provided technical assistance to Cotton-4 (C-4) countries in West Africa, namely, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad through a project that was implemented during 2009-13. The project was designed and implemented with the purpose of transferring environment-friendly cotton production technologies from Brazil to enhance yields and fibre quality in Africa. The Project was an initiative of the Government of Brazil through the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC).  aAgricultural programs and projects  aCotton  aCover crops  aRoot growth  aYields  aCotton-4  aFibre quality  aTechnical assistance1 aBARBOSA, S.