Founder members |
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development(NEPAD)Administration and Development for the AOCC |
World Wildlife Fund (WFF)
These international organization help to endorse AOCC’s recommendations and helps to raise support and translation at country and international level. |
Mars Inc.
Over $2M for the African Plant Breeding Academy scholarships for Breeding programs and support for AOCC lab personnel. |
University of California, Davis (UCD)
To generate reference genome sequence of AOCC species |
World Agroforestry Cetre(ICRAF)A Founding member.Has the role to incorporate AOCC species into its agro-forestry delivery vehicles such as portfolio of fruit crops and popularize them at local level and re-sequence 100 accessions each from the 101 species. |
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Role in science, technology and capacity building |
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Beijing Genomics Institute
To generate reference genome sequence of AOCC species |
University of California, Davis (UCD)
Technical advice and formulation of strategy and manage African plant breeding academy (AfPBA). |
Agricultural Research Council, South Africa
Transcriptome sequencing of 50 AOCC species |
N2N (VIB, University of gent)
Data analysis, genome annotation |
World Agroforestry Cetre(ICRAF)
To re-sequence 100 accessions each from the 101 species |
CyVerse (former iPlant)
Data analysis, SNP discovery, SNP database |
BecA
Training and capacity building |
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Role in advocacy, management and technology propagation |
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development(NEPAD)
This international organization helps to endorse AOCC’s recommendations and helps to raise support and translation at country and international level. |
Women’s Foodservice Forum(WFF)
This international organization helps to endorse AOCC’s recommendations and helps to raise support and translation at country and international level. |
Mars Inc.
Uses various global platforms to propagate the idea of AOCC, gather popular support and menrtos AOCC |
United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund(UNICEF)
This international organization helps to endorse AOCC’s recommendations and helps to raise support and translation at country and international level. |
World Agroforestry Cetre(ICRAF)
incorporate AOCC species into its agro-forestry delivery vehicles such as portfolio of fruit crops and popularize them at local level |
Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)
This international organization helps to endorse AOCC’s recommendations and helps to raise support and translation at country and international level. |
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Resource mobilization |
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Mars Inc.
Funding support to AOCC |
University of California, Davis (UCD)
writing grant proposals and generate funds for AOCC |
World Agroforestry Cetre(ICRAF) lab, staff and infrastructure support, writing proposals and generate funds for AOCC |
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa(AGRA)
funding to AfPBA |
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Instrumentation and reagent support |
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International Livestock Research Institute(ILRI) Greater Food Initiative grant to support transcriptome sequencing of 50 AOCC species. |
Laboratory of the Government Chemist(LGC) Training to participants of AfPBA and special arrangements for SNP genotyping for AOCC species. |
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Provided NGS line of instrumentation (Ion Protons and Ion Chefs) and partial support for re-sequencing. |
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development(NEPAD)
World Wildlife Fund (
Mars Inc.
University of California, Davis (UCD)
World Agroforestry Cetre(ICRAF)
Beijing Genomics Institute
Agricultural Research Council, South Africa
N2N (VIB, University of gent)
CyVerse (former iPlant)
BecA
United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund(UNICEF)
Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa(AGRA)


Thermo Fisher Scientific