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Mobilizing regional diversity for creating new potentials for pearl millet and sorghum farmers in West and Central Africa

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Coordinating organisation: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Western and Central Africa
Description: To enhance rural livelihoods and household food security in pearl millet-and sorghumgrowing
areas of WCA through cultivation of adapted, higher-yielding and stable cultivars of
these staple cerealsTo 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
Budget (in &euro): 1150000
Start: 2006-04-01
End: 2009-03-30
Categories
ARD-theme: plant production
Target country: Burkina Faso
Mali
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Commodity: plant products (agroforest)
Activity: funding
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Donor organisations: 1
Participating organisations: 7
Programmes funding: 1


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