Partnership with National Agricultural 
Research Systems (NARS)

The goal of WARDA's partnership with NARS is to achieve the most cost-effective means of generating and transferring new rice technologies within the region as a whole. 

WARDA views the regional rice science infrastructure as an integrated and interdependent system. Because agro-ecological environments cut across political boundaries, technologies generated in any single location are generally transferable to far broader areas. 

The objectives of WARDA's partnership with NARS are to achieve a more complementary and efficient sharing of research tasks by allocating responsibilities on the basis of comparative advantage, and to maximize research spillover between NARS and WARDA, and between NARS themselves.