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Abstract: A regional meeting on groundnut research in western and central Africa (WCA) was held in Cotonou, Benin, in Dec. 2000. The main theme was aflatoxin research in WCA and one of the sessions served as a meeting of the Aflatoxin Working Group that was created in 1994. Other themes were: agronomy, breeding, pathology and entomology. Subjects included: (1) the Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP); (2) performance of groundnut genotypes in Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo; (3) influence of pre-emergence weeding and depth of sowing on emergence under drought; (4) groundnut farming in Mauritania and Sierra Leone; (5) adaptability of a group of confectionary groundnuts in northern Cameroon; (6) genetics of earliness; (7) resistance to pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination; (8) selection for fresh seed dormancy; (9) progress in the control of groundnut rosette disease; (10) simulating groundnut affected by leaf spot disease; (11) susceptibility to termites and fungi; (12) disease management with fungicides, neem seed extract and local soap; (13) post-harvest control of aflatoxin; (14) molecular approaches to aflatoxin elimination; (15) methods for aflatoxin detection; (16) development of high-protein weaning food; (17) nutritional quality and storage stability of extruded weaning food; (18) groundnut seed production in WCA; and (19) the Groundnut Germplasm Project (GGP).