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- EIN 31-1602376
- (703) 893-0600
- Abidjan Abidjan 00000 Cote D'ivoire 00000-0000
- www.africarice.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: International, International Agricultural Development
Mission: To contribute to food security and poverty eradication in poor, rural, and urban populations, particularly in west, central, east and north africa, through research, partnerships, capacity strengthening and policy support on rice based systems, and in ways that promote sustainable agricultural development based on environmentally sound management of natural resources.
Programs: The rice sector development program (rsd) actively promotes the uptake of africarice research products and methodologies and their improvement through capacity building, information exchange, links with development activities and feedback to the three research programs of africarice.
sustainable productivity enhancement program (spe) covers crop and natural resource management (nrm) research related to intensification and diversification and protection of environmental services in the face of climate change, and aims to move research from plot to systems level and to introduce systems thinking in general.
genetic diversity and improvement program (gdi) covers the area "from gene to plant", and aims to enhance genetic diversity and develop improved rice lines adapted to abiotic and biotic stresses and consumer preferences, using conventional breeding, marker-assisted selection (mas) and profiting from farmer knowledge.