At the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, National Agricultural Research Institutes advance their unique goals in collaboration with leading experts in the field, defining their unique goals and driving advancement in crop improvement to reduce malnutrition and hunger, and provide equitable benefits to women and youth.
The ILCI-Caribbean-Atlantic Seed Systems Initiative (CASSi) strengthens alliances between researchers and farmers to effectively get improved seeds into the market.
Host: East African Center of Innovation for Finger Millet and Sorghum (CIFMS) led by the National Semi arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI)
Host: Central American and Caribbean Crop Improvement Alliance (CACCIA) co-led by Quisqueya University
Quick Win: Breeding pulse crops towards protein biofortification with the Nepal Agricultural Research Institute
Host: Crop Innovation in West Africa (CIWA) led by the Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA)
Host: Central American and Caribbean Crop Improvement Alliance (CACCIA) co-led by the Instituto Nacional de Innovación y Transferencia en Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Host: Center of Innovation for Crop Improvement for East and Southern Africa (CICI-ESA) led by Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)
Quick Win: Identification of QTL/genes associated with resistance to Taro Leaf Blight (TLB) and yield quality in Colocasia esculenta in biparental mapping population with the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI)
Partner country: Center of Innovation for Crop Improvement for East and Southern Africa (CICI-ESA) and the East African Center of Innovation for Finger Millet and Sorghum (CIFMS) in collaboration with the Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI)
Partner country: Center of Innovation for Crop Improvement for East and Southern Africa (CICI-ESA) in collaboration with the Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM)
Partner country: Crop Innovation in West Africa (CIWA) in collaboration with the Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA)
Partner country: Crop Innovation in West Africa (CIWA) in collaboration with the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN)
Partner country: East African Center of Innovation for Finger Millet and Sorghum (CIFMS) in collaboration with the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization
ILCI headquarters and objective area partners: breeding informatics, cross-cutting themes, genomics, institutional capacity and priority setting
Objective area partner: Cross-cutting themes
Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation
Objective area partner: Trait discovery
Objective area partner: Phenomics
Objective area partner: Phenomics
Led by National Agricultural Research Institutes in each country, these centers act as regional hubs to drive tools, technologies and methods that target crops that are essential for food security
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