Report on capacity building in scaling on Systems of Rice intensification (SRI) to produce more rice with less water

SRI AFRICA April 6, 2025 0 Comments

Organizing capacity-building training workshops can help to address climate change impacts and risks in Mali’s rice-based systems, which is imperative for achieving sustainable and resilient livelihoods for rice farmers. This report presents activities carried out on 20th November 2024 during the capacity-building workshop organized by the AICCRA Mali team for the effective deployment of climate-smart […]

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Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification in 13 West African Countries

SRI AFRICA October 29, 2024 0 Comments

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 […]

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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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