West Africa: Rice value chains are growing

This funding is intended for the first group of beneficiaries, which includes The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau at the national level, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) at the regional level. The project will increase rice production and productivity as well as income generated for farmers, especially women and youth. It will also increase the resilience and adaptive capacities of rice farms and production systems to climate change, as well as the processing, marketing and intra-regional trade of rice. At the national level, the project plans to develop irrigation infrastructure and strengthen the sustainability of irrigation services, support the dissemination of improved and climate-smart inputs and seeds, strengthen processing units and the marketing of local rice, with ...