Plant breeding today needs to address complex and multiple challenges. It is part of diverse social and cultural contexts, is expected to provide solutions for food security of a rapidly growing population, while preserving changing and diverse environments and contributing ecosystemic services. The central thematic of this platform is to integrate a multidisciplinary approach in the design and the implementation of breeding programs addressing the complexity of agroecological systems of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Partners
IAVAO partners are:
- The Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (Isra)
- The Centre d’Etude Régionale pour l’Amélioration de l’Adaptation à la Sécheresse (Ceraas)
- The West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research (Coraf/Wecard)
- The University of Thiès (UT) in Senegal
- The Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (Inera) in Burkina Faso
- The Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER) in Mali
- The Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (Inran)
- The Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in France
- The Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) in France
- The Institut national d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) in France