CGIAR Centers Collaborate to Boost African Rice Production
August 10, 2007| |
Three leading international agricultural research institutes have annnounced plans to join forces to boost African rice production and save the region millions of dollars in lost foreign exchange. The three centers are the Africa Rice Center (WARDA) based in Benin, the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) based in Colombia and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) based in the Philippines.
The three institutes have proposed the establishment of a united front for promoting rice and rice research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and a common conduit for transferring technology and information from international research to farmers in the region. Called the sub-Saharan Africa Rice Consortium (SARC), it will consolidate two existing regional rice networks in SSA. The Consortium aims to provide farmers with better access to improved seeds and technologies, and to develop a critical mass of trained scientists, thereby enhancing Africa’s capacity in rice research.
Read the news release at http://www.warda.org/warda/newsrel-riceproduction-aug07.asp.
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