West Africa is faced with significant challenges from climate change, including parts of the region becoming hotter with more variable rainfall. The Sahelian region in particular is already subject to severe droughts. To address this better adapted crop varieties (such as for cowpea) are clearly a central element, a complementary one is a greater use of resilient alternative crops especially underutilized legumes particularly Bambara groundnut, African yam bean, winged bean and Kersting’s groundnut. Genetic diversity of these crops conserved in genebanks and farmer’s field provides an opportunity to exploit climate resilient traits using cutting-edge genomic tools and to use genomics-assisted breeding to accelerate genetic gains in combination of rapid cycle breeding strategy to develop climate-resilient cultivars for sub-Saharan Africa.

西非面临气候变化带来的重大挑战，包括该地区的部分地区变得越来越热，降雨变化更大。特别是萨赫勒地区已经遭受严重干旱。为了解决这种适应性更强的农作物品种（例如cow豆）的问题，显然是一个中心要素，补充措施是更多地使用有弹性的替代作物，尤其是未充分利用的豆类，特别是班巴拉花生，非洲山药豆，四棱豆和柯士庭花生。这些保存在种质库和农民田地中的农作物的遗传多样性提供了利用最先进的基因组工具开发气候适应性状的机会，并利用基因组学辅助育种结合快速循环育种策略开发具有气候适应力的栽培品种，从而加速了遗传收获。撒哈拉以南非洲。