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