The European Commission hopes for greater collaboration to improve food and nutrition security

Delegates from the European Commission to Mali expressed interest in exploring new opportunities for collaborations with ICRISAT to improve food and nutrition security sustainably in the most vulnerable target areas of Mali. They discussed the progress made in implementation of the EU-APSAN-Mali project and also referred to ongoing discussions with World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) for new projects to strengthen European Union (EU) interventions in the agricultural sector in Mali.

Ms Ioana Albulescu, Team Leader–Green Inclusive Growth, EU Delegation to Mali; and Mr Olivier Lefay, Program Manager, Food Security, EU Delegation to Mali, and focal point of the EU-APSAN-Mali project recently visited ICRISAT’s research station in Samanko, Mali.