{"id":13938,"date":"2026-06-20T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/aiccra-ghana-launch-fostering-partnerships-for-technology-development\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:34:52","slug":"aiccra-ghana-launch-fostering-partnerships-for-technology-development","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/aiccra-ghana-launch-fostering-partnerships-for-technology-development\/","title":{"rendered":"AICCRA-Ghana launch: Fostering partnerships for technology development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 14\u201316 September, the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa-Ghana Cluster (AICCRA) was launched at the Alisa Hotel, Accra, Ghana. The project aims to bridge the gap between research institutes that produce improved technologies and development organizations that promote improved technology adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><figure id=\"attachment_23494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23494\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23494\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Accra1.jpg\" alt=\"AICRRA-Ghana launch: Fostering partnerships for technology development\" width=\"820\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stakeholders at the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa-Ghana Cluster (AICCRA) launch in Accra, Ghana.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project, funded by the World Bank and led by <a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a>, seeks to scale the most strategic and impactful CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)-Africa programs that promote resilience to climate change and improved food security. The focus is on six World Bank International Development Association (IDA)-eligible countries in Africa, including Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/abberton-michael\/\">Michael Abberton<\/a>, IITA West African Hub Director, gave an overview of IITA\u2019s mission. \u201cMost of our work focuses on climate change, and our overall mission is to reduce food insecurity, alleviate poverty, and build sustainable livelihoods,\u201d he said. He further explained the importance of the project, \u201cThis project is taking some of the things already developed, making them impactful, and accelerating the impact.\u201d Abberton pointed out that climate change and resilience to climate change are not only about drought, heat, terrible rainfall, etc., but also about ways in which pests and diseases could change the pattern of distribution, frequency, and severity. \u201cWe already see good examples of that in Africa,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Moses Monchia, the Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Crop Research Institute, said, \u201cThe AICCRA project is a useful intervention and it aligns very well with our national priorities.\u201d He explained that in scaling up, there is a need to develop collaborative research and build partnerships with major stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Lorenzo Carrera, the sector lead for sustainable development at the World Bank, said that agriculture remains at the center of the livelihoods of millions of people in Africa. However, many remain food insecure and malnourished. \u201cThe World Bank has been scaling up support for climate-smart agriculture to help African countries boost their resilience to climate change,\u201d he said. He further promised that \u201cThe World Bank, with the new climate-change action plan, will step up its support in countries on addressing climate change and boosting resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guest speaker, Prof. Victor Agyeman, Director General, CSIR Ghana, appreciated the different partners involved in the AICCRA-Ghana cluster project for taking steps to minimize the effect of climate change. \u201cThis program would make a lot of change as it is transformative, and we need to embrace it, and ensure that it is successful.\u201d He concluded that the program should be applauded and supported by all African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have put mechanisms in place to enhance synergies and collaboration between the different partners involved in AICCRA-Ghana,\u201d said Tepa-Yoto Grishlain, the project lead. Since partnership is critical for the project, farmer organizations will be connected through the nearest mechanism. \u201cWe will ensure that whatever technologies we are promoting are meeting the true needs of farmers; therefore, the farmers will really occupy the central position in this project,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of sustainability, the project will foster public-private partnerships to ensure that whatever technology is developed within the project can serve future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The One Health platform, which is an integrated, collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary system, was officially launched during the meeting. This platform will work at the local, national, regional, and global levels to achieve optimal health outcomes, recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AICCRA project is built on CGIAR\u2019s multi-stakeholder platform of the Biorisk Management Facility (BIMAF) hosted by IITA\u2019s station in Benin, West Africa. Partners are the CGIAR Climate Agriculture &amp; Food Security (CCAFS) Research Program, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), ICRISAT, Center for Agriculture Biosciences International (CABI), Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Crop Research Institute (CSIR\/CRI), Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA\/PPRSD), Ghana Meteorological Agency, and the Climate Change and Agriculture Department of the University of Development Studies (CCAD\/UDS).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n 14\u201316 September, the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa-Ghana Cluster (AICCRA) was launched at the Alisa Hotel, Accra, Ghana.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13939,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[667],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[44],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[199],"class_list":["post-13938","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-iita-news-no-2606","location-ghana","hub-western-africa","item-year-199"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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