Project Title

Objectives

Target Countries

Staple Crops Program

Promotion of Striga control technologies in sorghum to mitigate food crises in the Sahelian zone

To promote integrated Striga management technologies (including resistant varieties) to improve the productivity of sorghum in the Sahelian zone

Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso

Promotion of improved yam minisett technology to improve yam seed supply and crop productivity

To promote the improved yam minisett technology to improve yam productivity

Ghana, Nigeria, Togo and Benin

Improving post-harvest quality and packaging of rice, sorghum/millet and cassava products to enhance marketability in West Africa

To promote improved rice, sorghum/millet and cassava processing technologies in enhancing market access and increased incomes.

Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Liberia, Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso

Biotechnology and Biosafety Program

Evaluation and deployment of rice varieties endowed with the rymv1 gene resistant to the yellow mottle virus in West Africa.

To improve the productivity of rice in the rice producing countries through the use of varieties endowed with the rymv1 gene.

Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Niger and Nigeria

Using in vitro tissue culture methods to preserve, multiply and distribute ACMV free cassava cuttings to farmers in West and Central Africa

To improve the cassava productivity in cassava producing countries through the use of quality planting material sanitized and multiplied by tissue culture methods.

Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Niger

Improving cowpea productivity through the adoption of Bt cowpea varieties in  Burkina Faso, Mali and Togo

To facilitate producers’ use of Bt cowpea varieties in improving cowpea productivity in Burkina Faso, Mali and Togo 

Burkina Faso, Mali and Togo

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: Food Security in West and Central Africa Increased

Strategic Objective: Agricultural productivity and competitiveness with reference to rice, maize, sorghum, livestock and milk sustainably improved in West Africa

Specific Objective 1: Institutional capacity of CORAF/WECARD strengthened in its operations and coordination of agricultural research in West Africa. 

Result 1.1: CORAF/WECARD’s capacity in coordination, development of partnerships and research management strengthened

Specific Objective 2: CORAF/WECARD Programs strengthened to improve productivity and competitiveness with reference to rice, maize, sorghum, livestock and milk.

Result 2.1 Appropriate technologies and innovations developed

Result 2.2 Agricultural best practices promoted

Result 2.3 The capacity of value chain actors to adopt technologies and innovations strengthened

Activity

Target Countries

Rice productivity and market access improvements

Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Côte D’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone (7), Niger and Burkina Faso

Maize productivity and market access improvements

Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso (5)

Cassava productivity and market access improvements

Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Côte D’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Niger (7)

Livestock productivity and market access improvements

Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire

Milk productivity and market access improvements

Mali, Niger, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal