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The overall goal of WACCI is to improve food and nutrition security in Africa. The approach is to equip plant breeders with the knowledge and skills to develop superior varieties of indigenous crops, using both conventional and modern technologies.

The specific objectives are to:

 significantly improve the quality of PhD level training in plant breeding offered to students

 create opportunities to develop improved local varieties of the staple crops grown by smallholders in the sub‐regions, using in advances molecular biology, informed by farmers' stated preferences

 provide the necessary skills to direct and manage local plant breeding programs to meet local needs, and to respond to indigenous demands

 develop breeding techniques appropriate to address some of the unique breeding/crop improvement objectives for the sub‐regions

 create a de facto network of functioning plant breeders and their local co‐supervisors from the sub‐regions