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Climate Resilient Cowpea Innovation Lab

This activity ended in September, 2019. 

The Climate-Resilient Cowpea Innovation Lab develops and applies advanced genomic tools to cowpea breeding to increase yield, drought tolerance and fungal resistance in cowpea (or black-eyed peas), a common nutritious staple in African countries. 

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Cowpea research field at the University of California Coachella Valley Agricultural Research Station, Thermal, California. Photo: TJ Close, University of California, Riverside

Breeding a Better Cowpea : Q&A with Timothy Close, Director of the Feed the Future Climate-Resilient Cowpea Innovation Lab

This interview is the second in a series with the Feed the Future Innovation Labs for climate, weather and resilient agriculture month this May on Agrilinks. See the previous in...

April Thompson

April Thompson

May 30, 2018
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We’re working on developing better yielding varieties of cowpea. Drought affects the viability of conventional cowpeas, from planting to harvesting, in some of world’s most food insecure countries. Our Lab’s research will continue to have a positive impact on cowpea breeding for African farmers.

 

Lead Institute

University of California, Riverside

 
 
Focus countries 
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal

 

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N/A

 

Focus-country partners 

We work with the following partners:

  • Dr. Joseph Batieno, Institut de l’Environment et des Recherches Agricole (INERA), Koudougou and Kamboinse, Burkina Faso.

  • Dr. Francis Kusi, Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Manga and Tamale, Ghana.

  • Dr. Ousmane Boukar and Dr. Christian Fatokun, International Inst. for Tropical Ag. (IITA)  Kano and Ibadan, Nigeria.

  • Dr. Ndiaga Cissé, Centre National Recherches Agronomie, Bambey, Institut Sénégalais de Recherches

 

Learn more 

Read this recent article to learn more about our most recent activity.

 

Stay in touch

Dr. Timothy Close is the Director of Climate Resilient Cowpea Innovation Lab. Email our director if you’d like to learn more: [email protected] 

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