Africa Rice Center

Short description: Pan-African intergovernmental association

Africa Rice Center

Abbreviation| AfricaRice
Formation| 1971
Type| Non-profit research and training center
Purpose| Research
Headquarters| Abidjan,
Location|

* Côte d'Ivoire

Region served

| Africa

Official language

| English / French

Director General

| Dr Harold Roy-Macauley

Main organ

| Board of Trustees
Affiliations| CGIAR

Staff

| 250
Website| www.africarice.org

The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), formerly known as the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), is a pan-African intergovernmental association and a CGIAR Research organization, currently headquartered in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.[1] AfricaRice is an agricultural research center that was constituted in 1971 by 11 West African countries. By 2023, the center counted 28 African member states.[2] Since 1986, AfricaRice has been one of the 15 specialized research centers of CGIAR.

The center runs regional research stations in Saint-Louis, Senegal and Ibadan, Nigeria with country offices in Cotonou, Benin and Antananarivo, Madagascar .

AfricaRice aims to contribute to poverty alleviation and food security in Africa through research for development. The center has close links to agricultural research organizations in the African member states, agricultural universities and research institutes in Europe, Japan, the United States, and the development sector, including Non-governmental organizations, farmers organizations, and donors. AfricaRice, being part of the CGIAR system, shares resources with several of the other CGIAR organizations, including the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Philippines, and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, Nigeria. In the course of reforms at the CGIAR, AfricaRice developed together with IRRI and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), which sets a global strategic research agenda for rice.[3]

One of AfricaRice's major tasks is developing and introducing new rice seed varieties suitable for African conditions. NERICA, which stands for "New Rice for Africa", is two families of interspecific cultivars of African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice species, that was developed to improve the yields of African farmers. For his work on NERICA, Dr Monty Jones from Sierra Leone was awarded the World Food Prize in 2004[4] becoming the first African to win this award.

## Contents

* 1 Gallery
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Gallery

* Africa Rice Center staff in Benin, 2011

## See also

* African rice

## References

1. ↑ "Africa: Emergency Rice Initiative Launched to Help Countries Severely Hit By Soaring Prices". AllAfrica.com. 2008-06-18. http://allafrica.com/stories/200806180893.html.
2. ↑ "About Us" (in en). https://www.africarice.org/about-us.
3. ↑ Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) GRiSP website
4. ↑ "Monty Jones awarded WFP 2004". World Food Prize official site. http://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=25348&audienceID=1.

## External links

* Official site

[ ⚑ ]  6°25′15″N 2°19′35″E﻿ / ﻿6.42083°N 2.32639°E﻿ / 6.42083; 2.32639

* v
* t
* e

CGIAR

* Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
* Bioversity International
* International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
* Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
* International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
* International Potato Center (CIP)
* International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
* International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
* International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
* International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
* International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
* International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
* International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
* International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
* WorldFish

0.00

(0 votes)

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa Rice Center. Read more

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Organization:Africa_Rice_Center&oldid=3390520"
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template