The 5th World Cowpea Research Conference will be held from 27th September to 1st October 2010 in Dakar, Senegal. The conference, organised by the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), in cooperation with the Dry Grain Pulses Collaborative Research Support Programme (USA), Purdue University (USA) and the Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricoles (Senegal), will cover a wide variety of topics ranging from cowpea genetic improvement and use of molecular tools, through human nutrition, to processing and enterprise development.

For more information please visit the conference website