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 April 6, 2025 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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En Côte d’Ivoire, des experts ouest-africains tablent sur le riz résilient au climat

SRI AFRICA April 22, 2024 0 Comments

PARTAGER Le Centre de formation à la mécanisation agricole de Grand-Lahou (CFMAG), situé dans le Sud ivoirien, a abrité du 1er au 5 avril 2024 un séminaire international de formation des formateurs en riziculture. Ce séminaire, organisé par l’Agence nationale d’appui au développement rural (ANADER), a réuni 45 experts de la sous-région. Il s’inscrit dans […]

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Scaling-up climate-resilient rice production in West Africa

SRI AFRICA January 26, 2024 0 Comments

West Africa has had an impressive economic growth in the past two decades, with economic growth rates at above 5% between 2000 and 2014 (Africa’s Development Dynamics 2018)1. Yet it is uneven as Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire represent 85% of regional Gross domestic product (GDP). High informality, increasing inequalities and poverty also undermine growth […]

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