Hybrid rice in SRI to boost rice production in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali with support from CORAF through the FSRP

SRI AFRICA August 5, 2026 0 Comments

With climate change and declining yields undermining rice production in several regions of West Africa, CORAF is banking on a bold solution: the dissemination of hybrid irrigated rice varieties combined with the practice of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Commissioned by CORAF, the consortium formed by IER (Mali), INERA (Burkina Faso) and ISRA (Senegal) is implementing this […]

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WEST AFRICA: Using Earth Observation to Monitor Climate-Resilient Rice Production in West Africa

SRI AFRICA July 23, 2026 0 Comments

The European Space Agency  GDA Climate Adaptation and Finance (CA&F) consortium is working with the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) to co-design an Earth Observatory (EO) demonstrator for RICOWAS, an Adaptation Fund-financed project working with around 125,000 farmers across 13 countries to scale climate-resilient rice production in West Africa by promoting the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The […]

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Impact of in-Depth Adoption of System of Rice Intensification on Food Security of Smallholder Farm Households in Mali

SRI AFRICA May 4, 2026 0 Comments

Moussa Macalou, Rural Polytechnique Institute for Training and Applied Research of Katibougou, Mali & Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AlabamaFollow John Baptist D. Jatoe, University of Ghana, Legon Abstract The system of rice intensification (SRI) was implemented in Mali to boost rice productivity. The objectives of this paper are to identify the constraints faced by SRI adopters, estimate the […]

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