The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) has graduated 81 PhDs – of which 31 are women – drawn from 12 countries since its inception in 2008, the centre’s founder and director, Eric Danquah, has told University World News.
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Ghana will host the maiden conference of the African Plant Bre
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WACCI comes out as Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE) with best website following assessment of 25 World Bank ACEs on over six parameters by the AAU at the 11th ACE 1 and 2nd ACE Impact workshop in Dakar. WACCI also topped in External Revenue Generation.
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Seven members of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) led by the incoming Board Chair, H.E.
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Mrs. Nane Annan has paid a visit to the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana on Tuesday, September 3, 2019.
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A two day workshop on the production of hybrid seeds and to introduce seed producers to high yielding new hybrid maize seed by the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana, has started at Koforidua.
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Professor Eric Danquah, Founding Director, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, has called for measures in addressing food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, over the weekend graduated 15 quality plant breeders and seven seed scientists as part efforts to boost food and nutrition security in Africa.
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) of the University of Ghana, will host the maiden edition of the African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) conference from October 23 - 25. Professor Eric Y.
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Dr. Olumide Alabi, a product of WACCI lands a job at HZPC, Holland B.V. in the Netherlands, as a Biometrician and Quantitative Geneticist. Dr.
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana (UG), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States (US), has launched a five-week entrepreneurship programme.
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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement on Monday May 6 – 10, 2019 successfully presented the 15 students of its 8th cohort to the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana for their PhD oral examinations.
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Since its inception in 2007, breeders at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) in Ghana have produced 23 new varieties of corn, seven new varieties of peanuts, 11 new varieties of rice and seven new varieties of sweet potato.