Hannah Jaenicke says Good-bye

Dear friends and colleagues,

After 4.5 years at the helm of ICUC, now CFF, it is now time to say good-bye to the many friends and supporters of underutilized crops and the organisation itself. Over the past years, we have been able to raise the profile of underutilized crops worldwide considerably, although a lot more remains to be done. The most important achievement of the past years is the creation of Crops for the Future from a merger of the International Centre for Underutilized Crops and the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species. This new entity will assist in further increasing the profile of underutilized crops for food security, nutrition and health and environmental sustainability. It will be in good and experienced hands with Dr Michael Hermann, the incoming Global Coordinator of Crops for the Future. With the changes in leadership comes also a change in location. From 1 April 2010 onwards, Crops for the Future will be hosted by Bioversity International, at their Regional Office for Asia, the Pacific and Oceania, in Serdang, Malaysia. I wish to take this opportunity to explicitly thank the International Water Management Institute for their cordial hosting of ICUC/Crops for the Future for the past 5 years in Sri Lanka. I also wish to thank the members of the Scientific Advisory Board of ICUC and later CFF Board of Directors: Prof. George Rothschild, Dr Ruth Oniang’o, Dr N.G. Hegde, Mr John Palmer, Prof. Frank Rijsberman and Dr Colin Chartres, for their guidance and support. Last but not least, we could not have managed to achieve what we have without the support of the many research and development partners around the world to whom I say an especially warm thank you.

With best wishes,
Dr Hannah Jaenicke

The new coordinates of Crops for the Future are:

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