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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Project Activities In Ghana
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Project Activities In Burkina Faso
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Project Activities in Nigeria
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June 25 - 26, 2018Afrca Union Project Inception Meeting
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February 6, 2019Stake Holders Urge FG to Support Tomato Value Chain in South-West Nigeria |
February 12 - 14, 2019AU-EU Visit to WACCI Report
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February 26, 2019Atiwima Nwabiagya Rice Farmers Appeal for Support |
March 04, 2019UG to Name Enterprise Hub After Kofi Annan |
March 14, 2019"Investments in Research Crutial to Meeting SGD2 Zero Hunger" - Prof E. Danquah |
March 21, 2019WACCI Workshop: Participants Describe Workshop on the Value Chain of Maize as helpful |
March 22, 2019WACCI to Collaborate with All Actors in Maize Value Chain |
March 22, 2019Maize Production Crutial to Growth of Poultary Industry - Oppong Adjei |
March 22, 2019Maize Farmers Asked to Ensure QualityControl in Value Chain
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December 6, 2019CSIR-Scientits Introduce ThreeImprovement Rice Varieties to Farmers
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February 25, 2021Rice Farmers Rank CSIR-Crop ResearchInstitute Rice Varieties asVery Competitive |
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