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. |
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 |
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. |