The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) welcomes its fresh Cohort of Students who enrolled on the Centre’s PhD Plant Breeding and MPhil Seed Science and Technology Program
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) held inaugural meetings for its Sectoral Advisory Board (SAB) and the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) members on Friday, December 18, 2020.
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Dr. Malfouassan Apala Hortense, an alumna of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), wasrecently appointed as the first female Director of the Division of Crop Production at the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) in Cameroon.
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Dr. Pearl Abu, an alumna of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), has been awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
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Two alumni of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), Dr. Ijeoma Akaogu and Dr.
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The Ghana Early Generation Seed (EGS) Consortium for Sustainable Production of Quality Seeds Project was officially launched on Thursday, December 3, 2020.
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The University of Ghana recently appointed Dr. Theresa Ankamah-Yeboah and Ms. Alma-Lisa Lartey to the join the WACCI team.
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Twenty-nine students of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) comprising 14 PhD students from Cohort Nine and 15 MPhil students from Cohort Three graduated from the Univ
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Dr. Sanatu Mustapha Alidu, a Senior Lecturer at the faculty of Agriculture
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A Public-Private Consortium (PPC) led by the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) has been awarded a grant of $600,000 to generate a total of 15.2MT of breeder seed and 116MT of foundation seed of selected crops (maize, soybean, cowpea and groundnuts) to meet the demand of quality seed
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The WACCI ACE Story
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Dr. Damian Ndubuisi Njoku of the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Nigeria has developed promising cassava varieties with extended fresh roots shelf-life.
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The global pandemic has made it difficult for some African seed companies to produce and import sufficient quantities of quality certified se
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Fourteen students of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, have successfully defended their PhD theses at oral examinations organized by the School of Graduate Studies (SGS), University of Ghana from Ma
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Dr. Maxwell Darko Asante, of the Crops Research Institute (CRI), Ghana is leading a research project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to improve resistance to the rice yellow mottle and blast diseases in all the popular aromatic varieties of rice in Ghana. Dr.