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Who we are
The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) is a partnership between the University of Ghana (UG) and Cornell University, USA that was established in June 2007 with funding from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) at the University of Ghana to train Plant Breeders in Africa working on the improvement of African crops train in local environments for farmers in Africa. The Centre has expanded its scope to train Seed Scientists in Africa.
What we do
WACCI is training Plant Breeders and Seed Scientists for the sub-region on classical plant breeding and complementary molecular biology technologies needed for efficient development of superior and adaptable crops. WACCI is one institution among many that are working towards eradicating food insecurity in the sub-region through the training of the people needed to breed and to improve access to high quality seeds to improve food security crops for the rural farmers who currently cultivate unimproved low yielding varieties. WACCI is contributing the needed human resources for the strengthening breeding and seed science programmes of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in SSA.
News Highlights
Three years after the Founding Director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana, Professor Eric Danquah, won the 2022 Africa Food Prize, a former student of the Centre has now taken the 2025 honour.
At the 2025 Africa Food Systems Forum in Dakar, Senegal, the Africa Food Prize Committee announced that WACCI alumna and founder of GoSeed Ltd in Nigeria, Dr. Mercy Elohor Diebiru-Ojo, and Professor Mary Abukutsa Onyango of Kenya had been named joint winners of the 2025 Africa Food Prize.
The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, in collaboration with Zhejiang University, China, will host a research seminar on at 9 a.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2025, at WACCI. The event forms part of the China–Africa Partnership Institute Project, a joint initiative between the two institutions.
The delegation from Zhejiang University will be led by Prof. Qingyao Shu, Professor of Breeding and Biotechnology at the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology (CAB), Zhejiang University.
The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Alexander Asante-Atuobi as Team Lead, Finance.
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