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ACIA’s Dr. Jean Baptiste Tignegre Named 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneer by World Food Prize Foundation
Des Moines, Iowa (June 30, 2025) — Dr. Jean Baptiste De La Salle Tignegre, a Core Team member of the Alliance for Cowpea Improvement in Africa (ACIA), has been named one of the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) by the World Food Prize Foundation. Now in its second year, the TAP recognition honors global leaders…
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ACIA researchers publish new paper outlining promising results from seed storage trial to reduce post-harvest losses
A new study by researchers from the Alliance for Cowpea Improvement in Africa (ACIA) has unveiled promising early results from an innovation in cowpea development aimed at reducing post-harvest losses caused by one of the crop’s most damaging storage pests – the cowpea weevil.
