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African Orphan Crops Consortium

Healthy Africa through nutritious, diverse and local food crops

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  • Supporting information to ICRAF Working Paper No 276. Supporting human nutrition in Africa through the integration of new and orphan crops into food systems: placing the work of the African Orphan Crops Consortium in context.
    Appendix 2. Compiled information on 101 AOCC new and orphan crops

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The consortium’s goal is to sequence, assemble and annotate the genomes of 101 traditional African food crops, which will enable higher nutritional content for society over the decades to come. The resulting information will be put in the public domain with the endorsement of the African Union.

The consortium includes the African Union- New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AU-NEPAD Agency), Mars Incorporated, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), BGI, ...more

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  • MEDIA RELEASE| Enhancing African orphan crops with genomics

  • Promoting neglected and underutilized crop species

  • Sequencing all life captivates biologists

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