Bruker Optics helps scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), to adapt the Near Infrared technology to African farm conditions. The project is currently being used in Western Kenya as part of the Millennium Villages Project, and in a World Bank initiative to halt land degradation and restore thousands of hectares of degraded farm land to production.
For more information and to read CGIAR's "Story of the Month" , please visit:
www.cgiar.org/monthlystory/feb2006.html