SARD-SC

Support to Agricultural Research
for Development of Strategic Crops in Africa

Wheat Component

Addressing the gender deficit in wheat production

Failure to sufficiently consider gender will bring only partial success to SARD-SC’s efforts to transform sub-Saharan Africa’s wheat sector. A gender plan is now taking shape.
Establishing platforms for participatory technology testing

Six Innovation Platforms (IPs) have been established in the three hub countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sudan to validate and disseminate improved wheat varieties and production techniques.
Domestic production: a solution to African import dependence

The impressive performance of improved varieties of high-yielding, heat-tolerant wheat has convinced Nigerian decision makers that a viable solution to their country’s growing dependence on wheat imports is domestic production.

Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops in Africa (SARD-SC) is a multi-national CGIAR-led project that targets enhanced food and nutrition security and reduced poverty across sub-Saharan Africa. The Project’s Wheat Component, managed by ICARDA, is one of the initiative’s four targeted efforts to improve the productivity of strategic crops.

21 Jan

2015

Wheat Component

Raising wheat production in Africa

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