Enhancing crop productivity and climate resilience for food and nutrition security in Mali (APSAN-Mali)

Last update: 27 February 2023

One of the nine DeSIRA projects involved in DISSEM-INN, the APSAN-Mali project focuses on plant breeding.

The DeSIRA initiative
Launched at the One Planet Summit in Paris in 2017, the “Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA)” initiative is supported by European Commission’s Directorate for International Partnerships (DG INTPA). By funding more than sixty projects worldwide, this program aims to promote innovation in agriculture and transformation of partner countries’ agri-food systems to make them more resilient to the effects of climate change. Through the original concept of “action-research” for a “development smart innovation”, it seeks to promote a science in partnership that meet development challenges.

Description

The aim of the EU-APSAN-Mali project is to improve the productivity of crops such as sorghum, millet, groundnut and cowpea by modernising breeding programmes and strengthening seed systems, technology transfer and market access. More specifically, its goals are to:

increase agricultural productivity in the face of population growth and climate change, through the promotion of varieties developed by previous projects;
improve smallholder farmers' resilience to climate change and economic vulnerability, by modernising demand-driven breeding schemes;
achieve more efficient exchanges of genetic material and data at the regional level;
sustainably strengthen breeding research teams working on crop improvement.

Country concerned

Mali

Length

2019 - 2023

Actors involved

Coordinator: ICRISAT /CGIAR
Partners: CORAF, farmers' organisations in Mali, agricultural extension services, national NGOs (Malimark, EUCORD, AMASSA, CADD, AMEDD) and seed companies (SOPROSA, Camara Semence, Doun kafa, FASO Kaba), IPR/IFRA, Katiebougou and University of Bamako.
Funding: DeSIRA initiative (DG INTPA/UE)