WEBINAR: How plant breeding can be deployed to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19

10th June 2020
by secretary

Paepard

10 June 2020. How plant breeding can be deployed to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security across the African continent.

Recording forthcoming

Some 180 persons participated in this Webinar:

Welcome and Introduction: Professor Mohammad Faguji Ishiyaku, Executive Director / CEO IAR Samaru Nigeria
Presentation 1: Professor Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, Director, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) Ghana – How plant breeding can be deployed to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security across the African continent: Insights & perspectives from Western Africa
Presentation 2: Dr Richard Edema, Director, Makerere Regional Center for Crop Improvement (MaRCCI), Uganda – How plant breeding can be deployed to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security across the African continent: Insights & perspectives from Eastern Africa
Presentation 3: Professor Mark Laing, Director, African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI) South Africa – How plant breeding can be deployed to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security across the African continent: Insights and perspectives from Southern Africa
Presentation 4 Professor Rita H. Mumm, Director, UC Davis African Plant Breeding Academy – Emerging challenges related to food and nutrition security, seed business and training, as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic
Vote of thanks/Closing remarks Professor Mukhtari Mahmud Dean, Faculty of Agric. ABU Zaria

Related:

Professor Mark Laing is a Plant Pathologist, Plant Breeder and inventor. His early research focused on diseases of vegetables and seedlings, and the agrochemicals used to control the diseases. He then moved into the field of biological control, using beneficial microbes to control pests and diseases of crops and animals.

He also started the ACCI in 2001, a centre to train PhD students in plant breeding from African countries. Mark has collaborated widely with colleagues on interdisciplinary projects in the agricultural sciences, Botany, Entomology, Forestry and Agricultural Engineering, across many countries in Africa. In this lecture on the Climate Crisis topic, Mark paints a picture of the new world that is most likely to develop in the next 30 to 120 years, and will have an impact on all of us, and future generations.

Related:

The African Pla nt Breeders Association (APBA) is an initiative of full-fledged scientists in Africa from higher education institutions, research organizations and private companies who felt the need to change the narrative of crop improvement and the seed sector in Africa.

It is a forum dedicated to building capacities, problem solving, resources mobilization, and long-term strategic development of the agricultural sector in Africa through effective plant breeding programs and provision of tangible solutions to governments, seed companies, non-governmental organizations, and individual growers.

The APBA was launched at a maiden conference on October 23-25, 2019, in Accra, Ghana with the theme “Advances in classical breeding and application of modern breeding tools for food and nutrition security in Africa.” This first conference of APBA brought together plant breeders, researchers, students, professional private companies as well as national agriculture policy makers to shared their research findings, discussed recent developments in their respective fields of research and potential collaborative actions to be put into place.

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WEBINAR: How plant breeding can be deployed to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19

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