Morocco's Minister of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries, M Aziz Akhannouch, signed an agreement that recognizes the CGIAR Consortium as an International Organization.
Morocco, which joined the CGIAR Consortium in 2002, hosts five CGIAR Research Programs through its Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA).
22 May 2014: Morocco’s Minister of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries, M Aziz Akhannouch, signed an agreement that recognizes the CGIAR Consortium as an International Organization. Morocco, which joined the CGIAR Consortium in 2002, hosts five CGIAR Research Programs through its Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA).
CGIAR’s research programs in Morocco aim to: improve the yields and profits of crops, fish and livestock; improve the productivity, profitability, sustainability and resilience of farming systems; improve policies and markets; and manage and sustain crop collections. In addition, with additional support from CGIAR, Morocco will work to increase synergies among breeding programs for dryland cereals, grain legumes and wheat in a pre-breeding laboratory, where grain quality analyses, pathology tests, stress tolerance tests to greenhouse conditions and other analyses will be performed.
Benin, Denmark, France, Hungary and Uruguay have already signed the CGIAR Consortium into International Organization status and Senegal is expected to do so on 2 June. [CGIAR Press Release]