With the ever-growing population size, food and nutrition insecurity has become one of the biggest challenges in sub-Saharan Africa while the continent is endowed with a rich agricultural diversity that can be valued to overcome hunger and poverty. Unfortunately, the region is critically short in plant breeders capable to develop cultivars and stimulate seed systems that meet communities’ needs in the face of climate change. MoBreed (Mobility for Breeders in Africa), a consortium of five African universities together with one European technical partner, intends to:
Applications invited for MSc and Academic / Administrative Staff exchange in Orphan Crops breeding Enhancing training and research mobility for novel crops breeding in Africa
The EU-funded Mobreed under its Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, has provided funding to support training of graduate students in African universities.
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