Milk production in the Toukounous dairy farm in Niger has more than doubled as a result of innovations provided by the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP). “Milk yield per cow has doubled since the start of the WAAPP project,” Prof. Moumouni Issa of both the Faculties of Science and Agronomy of the Abdou Moumouni […]
CALL FOR MANIFESTATION OF INTEREST ——————————— Recruitment of a firm for the diagnosis and evaluation of the financial and accounting management system of CORAF and proposal of tools adapted to the operating method of CORAF ——————– Opening of the call: 04/12/2018 Closure of the call: 03/01/2018 ———- CEI N° 25-2018 Download terms of references The […]
CALL FOR MANIFESTATION OF INTEREST ——————————— Recruitment of a firm for the organizational diagnosis and modernization of the human resource management of CORAF ——————– Opening of the call: 04/12/2018 Closure of the call: 03/01/2018 ———- CEI N° 24-2018 Download terms of references The Executive Secretariat of the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research […]
Actors of three major regional agricultural research programs in Africa met recently in Lusaka, Zambia to share experiences and strengthen collaboration. These include The East African Agricultural Productivity Program (EAAPP), the Agricultural Productivity Program in Southern Africa (APPSA), and the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP). These programs have one feature in common: to promote […]
The World Bank has expressed its satisfaction with the state of implementation of the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP). CORAF is mandated by the Economic Commission of West African States to coordinate the program at the regional level. Speaking at the end of a routine institutional support mission (ISM) at CORAF’s Headquarters in Dakar, […]
In an extraordinary show of endorsement of agricultural research and the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP), eight government ministers showed up Monday, November 12, 2018, for the opening ceremony of the annual gathering of WAAPP actors. Seven participating countries (Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo) of the WAAPP are currently meeting in […]
Officials of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and CORAF met Monday, August 5, 2018, in Libreville, Gabon and agreed to further work together to promote agriculture research. Together, both parties discussed how to effectively implement a 2008 agreement linking both institutions. The 2008 agreement designates CORAF as the technical arm of ECCAS. […]
Not many young Africans abandon their lucrative city desk jobs for farming. Negative perceptions of farming, lack of information, skills, credit, and land are some of the reasons why very few city dwellers do not want to return to the vastly uninhabited rural areas of most Sub-Sahara African countries to practice agriculture, experts argue. In […]
In investing roughly 500 million FCFA (USD 1 million) in a research and development project for its member countries in 2014, the overarching goal of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) was to understand the genetic composition of sheep, cattle, guinea fowl, tilapia, etc. as well as boost their production. By so doing, […]
