Project 7: Partnership through Networks

This project consolidates WARDA’s partnerships by distilling research and development components of networks into a coherent whole. The networks are spreading spider webs along which improved seeds and technologies and expertise are channeled to a multiplicity of stakeholders in rice production—from the resource-poor grower, through the private sector, to research centers and NARES. Adaptation to individual ecologies or environments is carried out by the NARES working with ROCARIZ for technology transfer, and ARI for dissemination of improved NERICA seeds and associated technologies. In East and Central Africa, similar technology generation and transfer roles are being taken by ECARRN.

The project will focus on: (i) competitive rice sector development; (ii) developing and disseminating rice technologies through national partners; (iii) capacity building to safeguard sustainable rice sectors.

Outputs

1. Networks of partnerships and stakeholders’ platform established to promote national rice sector development

2. Rice technologies developed, validated and disseminated by national partners

3. Enhanced capacity building and resource mobilization for sustainability of national rice sectors