Research and Development
Overview
The Department of Research and Development (DRD) serves as a technical body for the Organization to coordinate research and development in order to contribute to improve African coffee productivity, production, quality, and value addition.
The ultimate objective is to improve competitiveness and regional market share by exercising key functions such as collaboration with sub-regional organizations, national research institutions to identify, collect and analyze research priorities, improve resource management in the context of the farming systems, breeding, fight against coffee pests and diseases and contribute to the environment management, and the development of the African coffee industry.
Activities
The DRD coordinates research activities under the African Coffee Research Network (ACRN) which is a technical branch of IACO and participates in the day -to-day activities of the IACO Secretariat. DRD activities are also in line with the strategic objective 2 of the IACO strategic plan.
