The Malagasy government aims to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production by 2027. In line with the national strategy on the development of rice cultivation (SNDRIII), adopted in 2023, Madagascar seeks to produce 6 million tons of rice in 2024 and to eventually reach an annual rice production of 11 million tons by 2030. To meet […]
o combat food insecurity in Madagascar, organizations have promoted the Système de Riziculture Intensifiée (S), or System of ice ntensification, an agroecological rice-growing technique. owever, despite its many benefits, adoption remains low (and disadoption remains high) in Madagascar. o better understand these dynamics, we use data from two surveys of 328 rice farming households in […]
RICOWAS, the largest SRI scaling-up project to date, will be implemented over four years in 13 West African countries, starting in January 2023. RICOWAS can be considered a follow-on project to the SRI-WAAPP project, which was implemented from 2014-2016 and reached 50,048 farmers growing rice using the SRI method at 1,088 sites on 13,944 hectares […]