System of Rice Intensification (SRI) activities were first documented in Côte d’Ivoire during 2014 following the onset of the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program’s (WAAPP) regional Improving and Scaling up SRI in West Africa (SRI-WAAPP) project. Following initial trials overseen by the SRI-WAAPP National Facilitator for Côte d’Ivoire, Dr. Alphonse Bouet, the project focus zoned in on […]
[March 8, 2021] In March 2021, Chia Benard (Ben) Ful, coordinator of the local NGO Boyo Association For Rural Development (BARUDEV) that works in the northwest Cameroon community of Mbueni, Boyo division, reported on the performance their SRI demonstration fields. The photo at right shows the productivity of SRI methods this past season: two large bags […]
SRI has been implemented in Cameroon since 2013, although the British NGO Skills for Development began planning the promotion of SRI as early as 2011. Henry Ngimbu from Zambia provided the SRI training to farmers in Ndop, Cameroon in 2013. The training was a collaboration between the Centre for SRI Initiation (CSRII) Zambia, Skills for Development, and […]