SEATTLE — Tanzania’s Government launched the Expanding Rice Production Project (ERPP) on March 12, 2015, in an effort to boost rice production, increase food security and strengthen the country’s agricultural sector. The project commenced in Morogoro, Tanzania’s mainland and Zanzibar, thanks to the government’s partnership with the Global Agriculture Food and Security Program. The ERPP is specifically focused […]
ABSTRACT: Lowlands’s ecology represents nearly half of the agro forestry region irrigated for rice in Niger. This research aimed at evaluating practices of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in these ecologies. On-farm testing was conducted in three (3) different regions (Tahoua, Zinder and Dosso). SRI practices in these regions were compared to conventional rice production […]
Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and the Government of Burundi, the PNSADR-IM is at work in the Imbo region in the communes of Mpanda, Buganda, Rugombo, Gihanga and Mutimbuzi to improve the living conditions of households. Dairy […]