Scaling-up climate-resilient rice production in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia (Republic of the), Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo)

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Rice is a staple crop that has been grown in West Africa for more than 3500 years, since the domestication of African rice (Oryza glaberrima). Produced by low-income smallholders across the entire region, rice plays a key role in regional food security for rural and urban populations. In recent years, increasing demand stemming from population […]

Improving and Scaling up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa

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Between June and August 2013 two organizations held the first large regional trainings SRI training in Central and Northern Benin. DEDRAS, a Christian NGO working in Northern Benin, conducted trainings for 160 farmers and six technicians in Banikoara, N’Dali and Parakou; CARDERE, the agricultural extension service of the Gov. of Benin, conducted trainings for 100 […]

Determinants l’adoption ou non du Systeme de Riziculture Intensive (SRI) dan la Vallee de Karfiguela a Banfora – Burkina Faso

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Les organisations d’économie sociale et solidaire (OESS) constituent de nos jours un cadre de promotion de l’égalité des genres. De par leur principe, elles s’opposent à toute forme de discrimination quel que soit son degré de manifestation. Dans cette dynamique, l’existence de ces organisations devrait permettre d’améliorer les conditions de vie des femmes rurales qui […]