Improving Food Security Information in Africa

For the sub-Saharan African countries to fully achieve their potential for rice production it is critical to have adequate and reliable information on their rice economies, to help formulate appropriate strategies and policies. 

AfricaRice launched an initiative in December 2007 as part of the Japan-AfricaRice Emergency Rice Initiative (ERI), which was designed to improve the timely

Genetic bridges between Africa and Asia

Achieving food security in Africa largely depends on growing
high-yielding crops, such as rice, that are also well adapted to the
continent’s harsh environment. GRiSP, through the Institut de Recherche pour leDéveloppement (IRD), International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), andAfrica Rice Center (AfricaRice), is building genetic bridges between African
and Asian rice to accelerate the