BADEA and Africa Rice Center boost Africa’s rice research and development capacity

As part of a new partnership between the Arab
Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the Africa Rice Center, a
capacity building program to make the rice sector in the region competitive by
improving the capacity of operators at the research and extension levels was
launched.





The program is complementing the Center’s
efforts to raise rice productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

Japan-funded Emergency project addresses Africa’s critical needs in rice seed and data

As part of its overall support to the Africa
Rice Center’s Emergency Rice Initiative in response to the world food crisis,
Japan is providing significant support to carry out activities in two
major areas:  

Enhanced access to quality seed of improved rice
varieties in selected
countries in sub-Saharan Africa in 20 out of 21 Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) candidate

CFC-funded Inland Valley project workshop reviews achievements

An end-of-project meeting was held at Africa
Rice Center, 3-4 June, on the CFC-funded project on “Sustainable productivity
improvement for rice in inland valleys in West Africa (SPIRIVWA).”





SPIRIVWA is carried out
in three in three different
agro-ecologies in West Africa (savanna – Burkina Faso; intermediate zone – Côte
d’Ivoire; humid forest zone – Nigeria) with the respective national