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)

SRI AFRICA February 22, 2023 0 Comments

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 […]

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

SRI AFRICA February 22, 2023 0 Comments

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 […]

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

SRI AFRICA October 1, 2021 0 Comments

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 […]

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