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WACCI acknowledges all partners too numerous to mention here for the successes to date. AGRA, Cornell University, the World Bank, the USAID, the DAAD, the IITA, ICRISAT, CORAF, Africa Rice, University of Illinois, Purdue University, Associate Faculty, and the several Visiting Scientists to WACCI are gratefully acknowledged. Dr. Joseph DeVries and Dr. Peter Matlon, formerly of the Rockefeller's Africa Program (and served as Founding Executives of AGRA), at whose behest the scoping study to establish WACCI was conducted are gratefully acknowledged for the audacity. (Figure B1.5)

Figure B1.5 Picture of WACCI Cohort 1 Graduation Ceremony: Fresh Graduates in a pose with their Professors. From left, Prof. Eric Y. Danquah (Founder and Director, WACCI; received the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations in Agriculture and Life Sciences [GCHERA] World Agriculture Prize, 2018); Dr. Solomon Gyan Ansah*; Dr. Issaka Ahmadou*; Dr. Moses Adeolu Adebayo*; Prof. Venon Gracen (Cornell Professor & Associate Faculty, WACCI); Dr. Ndubuisi Damian*; Dr. Njoku Some Koussao*; Dr. Mamadou Ibrahim Aissata*; Dr. Mamadou Coulibaly*; Dr. Maxwell Darko Asante*; Prof. Samuel K. Offei (Director of Research Programs, WACCI). (*Fresh graduates from the WACCI Cohort 1 PhD Plant Breeding Program)

Another significant point that needs to be made is that the for‐profit private breeding sector is obligated not to focus only on profitability of a product to the company, but they must also price their products such that the farmer can use them profitably. Farmers are not likely to adopt a technology that does not significantly increase their income!