2006

decembre

Observance of UN Day for South-South Cooperation
Kenzo Oshima (centre), Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, presents a South-South Partnership Award to Papa Abdoulaye Seck, Director-General of the Africa Rice Centre, at a ceremony held at UN Headquarters in New York. On the right: Yiping Zhou, Director, Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, UNDP.

NERICA Bags UN Award
This Day
The Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) has been selected to receive the 2006 United Nations Award for South-South Triangular Partnership ...

Entretien avec Aliou DIAGNE, économiste à l’ADRAO
La Citadelle

West Africa Rice Centre wins UN award
AngolaPress
In recognition of its New Rice for Africa Initiative (NERICA), the Africa Rice Centre (WARDA) has won the 2006 United Nations award for South-South Triangular Partnership, according to a statement from the centre.

West Africa Rice Centre wins UN award
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA)
In recognition of its New Rice for Africa Initiative (NERICA), the Africa Rice Centre (WARDA) has won the 2006 United Nations award for South-South Triangular Partnership, according to a statement from the centre.

PLANT BREEDING NEWS EDITION 174
WARDA, The Africa Rice Center, wins 2006 United Nations Award in recognition of its New Rice for Africa (NERICA) initiative

WARDA wins UN award for its ‘New Rice for Africa (NERICA)’ initiative
ARD-Infosyst
In recognition of its New Rice for Africa (NERICA) initiative, the Africa Rice Center (WARDA) has been selected to receive the 2006 United Nations Award for South-South Triangular Partnership, which is presented to individuals or institutions for “spear...

WARDA, The Africa Rice Center, wins 2006 United Nations Award in recognition of its New Rice for Africa (NERICA) initiative
Seed Quest

Agriculture and the 2007 Budget
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
... Project (IRRIDEP), the African Emergency Locust Project (AELP), Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP), NERICA Dissemination Project ...

Magic Rice at Rokupr Rice Research Station in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times - Freetown,Sierra Leone
... bred by the National Rice Scientists at Rokupr-capable of producing between 50 - 100 bushels per acre, the New Rice for Africa (the NERICA Series) producing ...

Experts Propose Agro-Technical Aid Corps for Africa
This Day (subscription) - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... Mkandawire said cassava, Nerica rice and aquaculture sectors are among the successful stories where best practices can be transferred, and expressed the hope ...

novembre

La Citadelle
Sécurité alimentaire : Le Nérica pour révolutionner la riziculture en Afrique subsaharienne.

In Africa, Rice Production is Growing
Voice of America - USA
... There’sa new variety of rice developed specifically for Africa, known as “Nerica.” Shellemiah Keya is with the Africa Rice Center in Benin. ...

octobre

Expect no miracles in the near-term
Financial Express - Bombay,India
... One recent success story is the development of the non-GM rice for Africa with high nutrition content called the New Rice for Africa (NERICA). ...

Food Security: ADF approves $32.4m loan for Nigeria
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
... Other considerations relate to the extreme poverty status of Ekiti, the participation of Ondo State in the Bank-funded NERICA Rice Project, the presence of a ...

Près de 32,5 millions $ d’appui au programme de sécurité ...
webmanagercenter - Tunis,Tunisia
... sont la situation d’extrême pauvreté de l’État de Ekiti, la participation de l’État d’Ondo d'u projet de vulgarisation du riz nerica financé par ...

N’est-ce pas M. le ministre
Le Matinal - Cotonou,Benin
... du gouvernement le Bénin peut économiser plus de deux millions de dollars Us, s’il augmentait de 20.000 tonnes environ sa production de riz Le Nerica. ...

CRR expects bumper harvest-Agric officer
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
... to the Daily Observer in an interview last Sunday, Mr Jaiteh said leguminous crops, findi and the newly introduced rice variety called Nerica amongst others ...

Institutional restructuring of DoSA-the birth of the National ...
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
... the Gambian farmer, given an enabling environment can repeat the production miracles of the 1960s and can extend the current success in NERICA production to ...

septembre

Charities Launch Plan to Help African Farming
New York Times - United States
... Rockefeller has measured the impact of the new rice, known as Nerica for “New Rice For Africa,” and found a number of benefits. ...

2 Foundations Join in Africa Agriculture Push
New York Times - United States
... Rockefeller has assessed the effects of the new rice — known as Nerica, for New Rice for Africa — and found a number of benefits. ...

FAO Gives Shs4.7b
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... first grant, worth over $1.2 million (about Shs2.3 billion), was signed on August 8. It is for the expansion of the New Rice for Africa (Nerica) project and to ...

Uganda: VP's Rice Gets Japan Boost
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... "We will further strengthen the cooperation on New Rice for Africa (Nerica) promotion in Uganda by sending other rice experts in the near future," Tomitaka said ...

août

Africa: New Rice Variety That Can Grow On Dry Land Shows Promise
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The successful introduction of a new high yielding Nerica rice variety, is likely to turn Kenya into a leading exporter of the grain. ...

New rice variety that can grow on dry land shows promise
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
By A JOINT REPORT. The successful introduction of a new high yielding Nerica rice variety, is likely to turn Kenya into a leading exporter of the grain. ...

Recherche sur le riz : Zacharie Segda primé à Dar-Es-Salam
LeFaso.net - Burkina Faso
... Le Dr Segda a également présenté en plénière au cours du congrès les résultats d’un 2e travail sur le NERICA, une variété de riz, bas-fond ou ...

Kenya slumbers as rest of Africa adopts new rice
AllAfrica.com
... The new variety named the New Rice for Africa (Nerica) has already sparked excitement among farmers, scientists and economists in many parts of the continent ...

Researchers outline recipe for African rice revolution
SciDev.net - UK
... Delegates said that the success of the New Rice for Africa (NERICA) varieties — bred from high-yielding Asian rice and African rice that thrives in harsh ...

Liberia: UNMIL Humanitarian Situation Report No. 65
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
... As part of support to improving rice yields in Liberia, the Chinese government and FAO provided two new varieties of rice (nerica swamp and nerica upland) for ...

Double rice harvest expected next season
Daily News - Tanzania
Assistant Director General of Research and Development at Africa Rice Centre (WARDA), Dr Shellemiah Keya said, "The years of abundant food for Africa are likely to be reclaimed with Nerica which Tanzania has also adopted."

Africa Rice Congress adopts far-reaching resolutions and bestows first congressional honor on Dr Nwanze
SeedQuest - USA
At the just concluded Africa Rice Congress in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, organized by the Africa Rice Center (WARDA) under the aegis of the Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives, a set of strategic resolutions were adopted

Rice-based Green Revolution in Africa achievable: scientists
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... research centers as the Africa Rice Center that has crossed African and Asian rice types to cultivate a rice line known as New Rice for Africa (NERICA). ...

Africa urged on rice yields
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
SUB-Saharan African governments have been encouraged to develop the wonder high-yielding and fast maturing NERICA rice variety to reduce the $1.2b annual rice ...

Experts underline four prerequisites for rice-based green revolution in Africa: policy, capacity building, technologies
SeedQuest - USA
Leading policy analysts and researchers attending the Africa Rice Congress — a groundbreaking meeting taking place in Tanzania to chart the way forward for rice research and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Training women can lift output
Daily Nation (subscription), Kenya 
... in countries like Kenya where more than 60 per cent of labour in rice fields were provided by women. ... "We want technologies which farmers can afford and ...

Tanzania: Training Women Can Lift Output
AllAfrica.com, Washington
Failure to train women in new techonology is to blame for the dwindling food production in Africa, an international Agricultural workshop was told yesterday. ...

Overwhelming optimism for the future of rice in Africa as the First Africa Rice Congress gets underway
SeedQuest - USA
World-renowned researchers attending the first Africa Rice Congress are confident that a rice-based Green Revolution in Africa ...

Uganda: Rice Demand Increases
The Monitor (Kampala)
Africa Rice Centre, together with other research organisations and donors have organised an Africa Rice Congress, which started on July 31, and ends on August 4 in Dar es Salaam. Africa Rice Centre is the leading rice research institute in Africa

Tanzania has adopted a new rice seed variety called Nerica
Daily News - Tanzania
.... Mr Joseph Mungai, announced the decision in Dar es Salaam yesterday in his opening speech at a four-day first ever Africa Rice Congress

Tanzania expects food surplus in 2005/2006: minister
African News Dimension, South Africa 
... The Tanzanian government has just declared its determination at the ongoing Africa Rice Congress to grow more rice so as to increase food production. ...

Africa Rice Congress underway in Dar
People's Daily Online, China 
The participants of the first ever Africa Rice Congress were scheduled to compare notes on more than 90 research papers on the latest development of rice ...

Rice production conference opens in Dar
Capital FM, Kenya 
About 300 researchers and policy experts have converged for the first Africa Rice Congress in Tanzania to map out strategies to ensure Africa produces most of ...

Rice Congress for Dar
Daily News - Tanzania
....Africa Rice Centre (WARDA) experts will discuss the future of rice researches, development and food security on the continent

Unlocking farmers’ best-kept secrets: a joint WARDA-IFAD project helps document and properly value local knowledge and innovations
FIDAction - West Africa
The project is designed to improve rice productivity, stimulate crop diversification and increase farmers’ incomes in inland valley systems. With support from IFAD, the project is being carried out by the Africa Rice Center (WARDA) and its partners in four West African countries

juillet

Tanzania to host first Africa rice congress
Yahoo - India
... Africa Rice Congress will be held next week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, organisers said. ...

More rice being eaten
New Vision, Uganda - Jul 28, 2006
... The rising rate of rice consumption in Africa has prompted the convening of the week-long African Rice Congress to highlight the importance of rice in the food ...

Tanzania to host first Africa rice congress
Telugu Portal, India 
Nairobi, July 26 (Xinhua) The first-ever Africa Rice Congress will be held next week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, organisers said. ...

First Africa rice congress to be held in Tanzania
African News Dimension, South Africa 
By ANDnetwork .com. The first-ever Africa Rice Congress will be held next week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, organisers said. The meeting ...

First Africa rice congress to be held next week
People's Daily Online, China
The first-ever Africa Rice Congress will be held next week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, organizers said on Tuesday. The meeting, from ...

WARDA launches improved rice varieties in Africa
The Tide Online -- Nigeria
.... improving performance and enhancing livelihoods of irrigated rice farming households in most African states River Valleys

Docteur Moussa Sié, chercheur à l’ADRAO, lauréat du Prix ...
LeFaso.net - Burkina Faso
... Nous avons commencé les recherches en 2000 et en 2003, nous avons lancé la première variété, le Nerica riz de bas-fond. Nerica ...

Deux nouvelles variétés de riz au Burkina Faso
La Voie Agricole
le ministère en charge de l’Agriculture a entrepris, en collaboration avec l’INERA, de tester un certain nombre de variétés de riz dont les NERICA

Gambia: NARI Donates to Production Groups
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
NARI (National Agricultural Research Institute) on Thursday distributed farming implements and motor-bicycles to NERICA production groups and extension workers ...

Nerica Rice Project Launched in Bo
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and non governmental organizations formally launched the New Rice Variety for Africa (NERICA) project at ...

Bumper harvest expected at Sapu fields
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
... He said the competition was aimed at motivating and encouraging farmers to increase rice production in the country, especially for the Nerica variety developed ...

Dr Pape Abdoulaye Seck, Directeur du Centre Africain pour le Riz
Le Soleil - Senegal
Le Dr. Pape Abdoulaye Seck, actuel directeur général de l’Isra, vient de remplacer le Dr Kanayo F. Nwanze au poste de Directeur Général du Centre Africain pour le Riz (Adrao)

juin

Obasanjo said WARDA should try and maintain its outstanding achievement
Business Day - Nigeria
Obasanjo said this yesterday in Abuja at the opening of the extraordinary session of the Council of Africa Rice Centre (WARDA)....

Africa imports nearly half of rice consumption
tralac - South Africa
.... WARDA should try and maintain its outstanding achievement on the production of New Rice for Africa (NERICA)

Africa imports nearly half of rice consumption
Medilinks - New York
... a purely African problem in agriculture as exemplified by NERICA a success story

Africa imports nearly half of rice consumption
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
... productivity. He said the WARDA should try and maintain its outstanding achievement on the production of New Rice for Africa (NERICA). ...

Africa-Rice
FirstGlobalSelect - XINHUA
Ekaette challenged the WARDA to make rice importation a thing of the past in Africa through research

Obasanjo Urges Reduction in $1bn Rice Imports
This Day (subscription) - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... of the Council of Ministers of the Africa Rice Centre (WARDA) in Abuja yesterday, lauded the outfit for its breakthrough in developing the NERICA variant of ...

Liberia: Country Benefits From New Rice Specimen
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Rice Center, formally the West African Rice Development Agency (WARDA), has presented a consignment of 1.5 tons of the New Rice for Africa (NERICA) to Liberia. ...

Pr Kadjo K. Alphonse, Directeur du centre : “Le CEMV est un ...
Fraternité Matin - Cote d'Ivoire
... avec divers organismes, notamment l’IPR, l’IRD, l’ORSTOM, l’ADRAO, le CNRA et ... Ivoire a été choisie du fait de ses infrastructures et Bouaké à cause ...

Sierra Leone: Un prix décerné pour la recherche sur le nouveau ...
All Africa - Mauritania
... agricole américain de l'Iowa le 14 octobre a rendu hommage aux travaux décisifs dans la mise au point du nouveau riz pour l'Afrique (Nerica), une variété ...
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mai

Sierra Leone: Un prix décerné pour la recherche sur le nouveau ...
All Africa - Mauritania
... agricole américain de l'Iowa le 14 octobre a rendu hommage aux travaux décisifs dans la mise au point du nouveau riz pour l'Afrique (Nerica), une variété ...

South Africa: Recommendations for Agricultural growth in Africa
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
... By crossing African and Asian varieties of rice, African rice breeders have developed a hardy, high yielding upland “Nerica” variety of rice which is ...

Best of Both Worlds - Côte d'Ivoire
Rice farming in Côte d'Ivoire is characterised by poor soils, drought and pest infestation. The majority of farmers struggle ......  
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FG approves N1 bn for rice production
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
... Council has approved Nl billion from the 10 percent surcharge on rice importation for the funding of rapid multiplication and dissemination of Nerica and other ...

avril

Karantaba tukulor komping nafforeh harvest rice
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
The Kompin "Nafforeh" women's group of Karantaba Tukulor in Sami District CRD, last week harvested one hectare of the newly imported Nerica Rice. ...

There is an alternative
Le Monde Diplomatique - Paris,France
... risks from bad harvests. One example is the recent success of the pluvial rice Nerica in West Africa. This cross between African ...

mars

Introducing the New Rice for Africa (Nerica)
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
Therefore, one of the main staple foods mostly grown in the country since decades, Nerica, needs to be discussed as it contributes immensely to the development ...

A boost for farmers
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
... Also, the success of NERICA project throughout the country indicates that The Gambia is striving towards food self-sufficiency, in particular rice production. ...

The Grant Assistance for Underprivileged Farmers: Dissemination of ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
... yen (approximately 1,370,000 dollars), through the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), for the dissemination of NERICA (New Rice for ...

Women's Act to be amended ...VP Njie-Saidy
Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia
... These, she said, included the launch of the sensitisation programme and a NERICA RICE epileptic test which was done yesterday by invitees; a women of ...

février

Ejura-Sekyedumase assembly inaugurates tractors
Gye Nyame Concord - Ghana
... 1,500 farmers, the agricultural transformation in the Afram Plains Basin of the Millennium Challenge Account for poverty reduction and the Nerica Rice Project.

ECOWAS gets humanitarian unit
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
... The focus of the programme was on areas where the continent had comparative advantage such as cassava and Nerica rice production, he said. ...

Research innovations in Africa and Asia hold promise for rural ...
Harold Doan and Associates (press release) - Rocklin,CA,USA
... In West Africa, agricultural research has led to the introduction of new rice varieties referred to as New Rice for Africa, or NERICA, combining the ruggedness ...

International Community Helps Sierra Leone's Food Sufficiency ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... The chairman of the Bonthe sensitization meeting confirmed reports that Farmers Field Schools in Bonthe District experimented the new Nerica rice species ...

Status of food security and prospects for agricultural development ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
... Though there have been some pockets of success in African agriculture such as NERICA Rice, high yielding caAfricava varieties, etc., the goal of food security ...

janvier

AGRICULTURE : Agric minister takes stock of achievement
Vanguard - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... of 81,505 R-Boxes to the 36 States and FCT at 50% subsidy; Production of 4.92 mt of breeder seeds and 25.23mt of foundation seed stage 1 of NERICA I and 12.6mt ...