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The Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Développement Agricoles (CORAF) is launching a call for technologies and innovations as part of the next Marché des Innovations et Technologies Agricoles (MITA), which will take place from October 21 to 25, 2024 in Lomé under the theme "Gestion des Bioagresseurs". 

MITA is a key CORAF event designed to showcase technological advances and innovations in agricultural research in West and Central Africa. CORAF's ambition is to consolidate the technologies and innovations developed in recent years in the integrated management of pests and diseases in West and Central African agricultural value chains. 

The MITA 2024 call for technologies and innovations invites generators of know-how, technologies and innovations for the integrated management of pests, plagues and diseases in West and Central African agricultural value chains from national, regional and international agricultural research institutions and centers to submit their available technologies and innovations meeting as many of the following conditions as possible:

• Already tested because already approved.
• Climate-smart because it contributes to increased productivity, adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation.
• Sensitive to nutrition because it preserves the nutritional quality of agricultural products.
• Gender-sensitive because it can be used by all categories of society 
• Socially acceptable because it conforms to the socio-cultural norms and practices of the target communities.
• Physically and economically accessible because available at affordable cost. 

Please submit your technology or innovation to be presented during MITA 2024 by filling in the platform whose access link is: https: //ee.coraf.org/x/ex6RgFYA

The selected technologies and innovations will be presented at MITA in Lomé in October 2024. 

Calendar

Technology submission deadline: August 28, 2024

Committee selection deadline: September 9, 2024 

Notification of technology acceptance: Applicants whose technologies have been selected for MITA will be notified by e-mail before September 13, 2024. 

MITA date: October 21-25, 2024, Lomé, Togo. 

Any questions concerning this call should be sent to the following address: a.nadinga@coraf.org