{"id":11912,"date":"2026-06-09T18:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/legg-james\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:02:39","slug":"legg-james","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/legg-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Legg, James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Legg est scientifique principal \u00e0 l'Institut international d'agriculture tropicale (IITA), bas\u00e9 au p\u00f4le Afrique de l'Est de l'IITA \u00e0 Dar es-Salaam, en Tanzanie. Ses recherches sur les virus des plantes et leurs vecteurs insectes se concentrent particuli\u00e8rement sur l'\u00e9pid\u00e9miologie des virus de la mosa\u00efque du manioc et de la striure brune du manioc en Afrique, ainsi que sur le d\u00e9veloppement et le d\u00e9ploiement de strat\u00e9gies de gestion. James dirige le programme Sant\u00e9 des plantes et des semences pour l'agriculture (PASHA) de l'IITA au p\u00f4le en Tanzanie, ainsi que le programme de syst\u00e8mes semenciers \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle de l'Institut. Il a r\u00e9cemment repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 l'IITA au sein de l'initiative OneCGIAR Seed Equal, dirigeant la recherche sur les syst\u00e8mes semenciers de cultures \u00e0 propagation v\u00e9g\u00e9tative, et il co-dirige \u00e9galement un projet de cinq ans financ\u00e9 par la Fondation Bill et Melinda Gates intitul\u00e9 \u2018 Programme pour l'innovation des syst\u00e8mes semenciers pour les cultures \u00e0 propagation v\u00e9g\u00e9tative en Afrique (PROSSIVA) \u2019. Le renforcement des capacit\u00e9s pour la recherche et le d\u00e9veloppement agricoles constitue un \u00e9l\u00e9ment cl\u00e9 du travail de James, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 un superviseur enthousiaste pour pr\u00e8s de 50 \u00e9tudiants en ma\u00eetrise et en doctorat, dont beaucoup ont ensuite jou\u00e9 des r\u00f4les importants dans la recherche agricole africaine. James joue \u00e9galement un r\u00f4le de premier plan au sein de l'IITA et du CGIAR dans la communication sur la recherche agricole et l'environnement par le biais des m\u00e9dias sociaux.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Legg is a Principal Scientist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), based at IITA\u2019s East Africa Hub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33096,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"disabled","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","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":[],"ast-content-background-meta":[]},"science-area":[],"program":[107],"location":[27],"hub":[62],"crop":[],"staff-type":[],"class_list":["post-11912","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","program-seed-systems","location-tanzania","hub-eastern-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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