The Director, Institute for Applied sciences (IAST), Prof. David Dodoo-Arhin led a delegation from the Institute to pay a working visit to WACCI earlier last week. The purpose of the visit was to congratulate WACCI’s founding Director, Prof.
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DAAD has joined the growing list of WACCI’s Partners and stakeholders who have shared goodwill and congratulatory messages with Prof Eric Danquah for receiving the 2022 Africa Food Prize.
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Winner of Africa Food Prize 2022, Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah has indicated his intention to collaborate with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( MoFA) to improve agriculture in Ghana. Prof.
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The Director of West African Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, has been named the 2022 Africa Food Prize Laureate for his achievements in training African Agricultural Scientists for Africa.
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The West African Centre for Crop Improvement, WACCI, University of Ghana received a delegation from the International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) earlier last week.
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The Director of the West African Centre for Crop Improvement, WACCI, Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah has been appointed along with 10 others to serve as Board of Directors of the Twifo Oil Palm Plantation (TOPP) Limited.
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The West African Centre for Crop Improvement is pleased to announce that Miss Enyonam Damesi has joined the team as Communications Manager/ Communications Team Lead.
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The West African Centre for Crop Improvement, WACCI, University of Ghana has successfully graduated its 10th cohort of PhD Plant Breeding Candidates at a ceremony held on July 29, 2022 at the forecourt of the Great Hall, University of Ghana.
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Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, a professor of plant genetics at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) in Legon, Accra, has said that Ghana is currently not food secure. He argues that the country has been struggling for decades in the areas of nutrition and security of food supply.
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The 15th-anniversary celebration of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) has coincided with the Centre receiving a donation of a tractor and a set of other agricultural implements from Case IH Agriculture, an agricultural machinery manufacturer and Kanu Equipment.
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Ghanaian plant geneticist and founding director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) of the University of Ghana, Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, says smallholder farmers in Africa need access to biotech crops more than farmers anywhere else in the world.
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) has called for strategic investments in the seed systems of six staple crops in Ghana for agricultural and industrial transformation. The six crops are rice, maize, soybean, cowpea, tomato and cassava.
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana will from tomorrow Friday host an emergency consultative meeting to deliberate on food and nutrition security in the country.
