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Project Summary

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), a World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence has developed extensive partnerships with Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and research institutions across the sub-Saharan Africa to help address important issues concerning crop and soil health improvement for agricultural intensification towards economic transformation in Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. This project aims to address issues related to the food security objectives of the African Union research initiatives through sustainable crop production intensification and the delivery of research outputs for direct yield improvements on-farm. The challenge to be surmounted through this initiative is to empower and support African farmers to increase farm yields of key food security crops. Farmers will be trained through some participatory approaches such as farmer field schools, value chain workshops and exposed to the use of superior germplasm/improved seeds that are adaptable to the changing climates, tolerant to abiotic stresses with resistance to prevailing pests and diseases. The need to empower resource poor farmers across the continent also requires the development of resources necessary for breeding efficiency through effective genetic resource management, pre-breeding, and mapping and introgression of genes of agronomic importance into farmer preferred varieties as well as other supporting activities proposed under this project. Tracer studies on prevailing farm yields will be carried out and yields compared with baseline data collected on same farms owned by the same farmers before the farmer field schools and value chains workshops.


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June 25 - 26, 2018
Afrca Union Project Inception Meeting

 

 
 
February 6, 2019
Stake Holders Urge FG to Support Tomato Value Chain in South-West Nigeria 
 
 
February 12 - 14, 2019 
AU-EU Visit to WACCI Report

 

 
 
 February 26, 2019
Atiwima Nwabiagya Rice Farmers Appeal for Support 
 
March 04, 2019  
UG to Name Enterprise Hub After Kofi Annan  
 
March 14, 2019
"Investments in Research Crutial to Meeting SGD2 Zero Hunger" - Prof E. Danquah
 
March 21, 2019  
WACCI Workshop: Participants Describe Workshop on the Value Chain of Maize as helpful 
 March 22, 2019  
WACCI to Collaborate with All Actors in Maize Value Chain 
 
March 22, 2019  
Maize Production Crutial to Growth of Poultary Industry - Oppong Adjei
 
March 22, 2019
Maize Farmers Asked to Ensure Quality
Control in Value Chain

 

December 6, 2019
CSIR-Scientits Introduce Three
Improvement Rice Varieties to Farmers

 

February 25, 2021
Rice Farmers Rank CSIR-Crop Research
Institute Rice Varieties as
Very Competitive