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 […]
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 […]
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 […]