An adaptation strategy to climate change effects in the West African region is to implement demand-driven scientific crop improvement and seed enterprise development. Demand driven crop improvement ensures delivery of innovative crop varieties that responds to productivity challenges like biotic and abiotic stresses, as well as socio-economic demands. Special teaching and research emphasis will be…

1.  Biotechnology applications: Marker-assisted selection of crops for desirable traits. Duration: 2 weeks Molecular marker maps have been constructed for a wide range of crop species. Information on major plant projects (such as the sequencing of the entire rice genome) can be found at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/PLANTS/PlantList. html. We only need to apply this wealth of information to solve o…

CENTRE CORE COURSES The M.AgSE programme will have 10 units of 4 core courses compulsory and 1 elective English Language short course for all options: ACE 701: Climate change and Agriculture (2 Units, 1st Semester)ACE 702: Information Systems and Agricultural Knowledge Management (3 units, 2nd Semester)ACE 704: International trade and Policy, Agri-business, and innovation Management (3 units, 2nd …

The World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Development and Sustainable Environment (CEADESE) based in FUNAAB will run new postgraduate courses designated as Master (M. AgSE) and doctorate (PhD AgSE) degrees in Agricultural Development and Sustainable Environment. CEADESE will also run short- term courses on Agricultural development and climate change adaptation. The post graduate a…