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Central American and Caribbean Crop Improvement Alliance (CACCIA)

At the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, we believe that science and collaboration can transform global hunger challenges and create a more equitable, food-secure world for all. With national breeding programs as core partners, we develop tools, technologies and methods to breed resilient varieties of staple crops across East Africa, West Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Central American and Caribbean Crop Improvement Alliance (CACCIA) is a regional hub for plant cultivar development and breeding innovation in Central America and the Caribbean. The CACCIA Center of Innovation is building a more resilient, equitable and food secure future for Central America and Caribbean by advancing regional capacity for breeding innovations. CACCIA, whose acronym refers to acting in unison, builds bridges between dichotomies in crop improvement: agricultural science vs. international development; social vs. biophysical research; plant breeders’ priorities vs. farmers’ preferences; men’s vs. women’s needs. in Costa Rica, CACCIA is led by the Instituto Nacional de Innovación y Transferencia en Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) with a focus on common bean, sorghum and sweet potato due to their regional importance to smallholder farmers. Working in partnership with Quisqueya University in Haiti, the program is committed to elevating the voices of more diverse stakeholders in cultivar development and dissemination processes. CACCIA tests and generates new, cutting-edge tools, technologies and methods that can stand up to common challenges of drought and heat stress. The Center of Innovation tests yield stability and broad adaptation and work towards a release of superior crop varieties for Central America and the Caribbean, selectively implementing methods such as recurrent multi-location phenotypic rapid cycling, physiological breeding on key traits, and genomic prediction for yield stability. This video is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. Learn more about CACCIA's work: https://ilci.cornell.edu/central-amer...