Mobilizing regional diversity for creating new potentials for pearl millet and sorghum farmers in West and Central Africa
Description:
To enhance rural livelihoods and household food security in pearl millet-and sorghum growing areas of WCA through cultivation of adapted, higher-yielding and stable cultivars of these staple cereals. To assist NARS in the target countries to more effectively utilize genetic diversity of locally adapted, farmer-preferred photoperiod-sensitive, pearl millet and sorghum germplasm in their breeding programs
Executive Institute:
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Western and Central Africa (ICRISAT - WCA) Details of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Western and Central Africa
Contract period:
01. 04. 2006 - 31. 03. 2009
Project budget:
1,150,000 €
Participating Institutions:
- Institute for Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics (UH-350) Details of UH-350
Funding Programme:
- BMZ - BEAF Project funding Details of BMZ - BEAF Project funding
Subject:
- Agricultural Engineering Plant Production
Purpose of research:
Applied research
Funding Institutions:
- Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Details of (BMZ)
Project Management Agency:
- Advisory Service on Agricultural Research for Development (BEAF - GIZ) Details of BEAF - GIZ