The Legon branch of the University of Ghana has received a US $5 million grant from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), to establish the West Africa Center for Crop Improvement (WACCI).
The WACCI project, a partnership between the University of Ghana and Cornell University in the USA, seeks to train 40 PhD students in plant breeding and genetics. A student admitted for the five-year programme will receive a PhD degree award at the end of the training. Eight students will be admitted every year to pursue the programme, with the first group starting in January 2008.
The project will receive the necessary facilities and supports to equip its trainees in improving food crops and increasing yields in West Africa though the use of biotechnology and molecular biology. It will operate as an autonomous centre in the College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences and will be governed by a committee appointed by the Vice Chancellor.
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August 07, 2007
AGRA grants University of Ghana $5 million for regional crop improvement center
Categories biotechnology, capacity building, Ghana, green revolution, West Africa
