Biotech Updates

World Cowpea Research Conference

January 29, 2010

Researchers from around the world will converge at Dakar, Senegal from 27 September to 1 October 2010 for the 5th World Cowpea Research Conference. For five days, participants will tackle research-related issues to enhance the profile of cowpea as a viable income- generating and food security crop. With the theme, Improving livelihoods in the cowpea value chain through advancement in science, will cover a wide range of topics - from cowpea genetic improvement and use of molecular tools, to human nutrition and processing and enterprise development. The conference is organized by International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in cooperation with the Dry Grain Pulses Collaborative Research Support Programme (Pulse-CRSP), Purdue University, and the Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA).

Visit http://cowpea2010.iita.org/ for more information.