Stakeholders take stock of stress-tolerant rice for Africa

Stakeholders of the project on “Stress-tolerant
rice for poor farmers in Africa and South Asia (STRASA) met, 26-27 February, at
the Africa Rice Center regional station in Ibadan, Nigeria to review the
progress made by the project and plan for 2009.





Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the
STRASA project aims to

International experts team up to stimulate rice production in Africa and Asia

An international meeting to plan a project on
“Green Super Rice for the Resource-poor of Africa and Asia” was hosted by the
Africa Rice Center, 24-25 February, at its regional research station in Ibadan,
Nigeria.





The project aims to reduce poverty and hunger
and increase food and income security of resource-poor farmers in Africa and
Asia through the development and dissemination of “Green

Maintaining stewardship over NERICA quality

A delegation from the CGIAR Central Advisory
Service on Intellectual Property (CAS-IP) led by its Project Manager Dr
Victoria Henson-Apollonio met with staff from the Africa Rice Center, 13
February, in Cotonou, Benin to discuss issues relating to NERICA branding and
highlight the relationship between product quality and trust building.





As the expanding range of NERICA varieties is
being

Africa Rice Center hosts Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) meeting

Africa Rice Center is an active steering
committee member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) – a joint
initiative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) – which seeks to double rice
production over the coming 10 years.





CARD was officially launched in May 2008 at the
Tokyo International Conference for