AfricaRice Seed Production Specialist Dr Saidu Bah presenting on 'Partnerships for efficient quality seed production and
variety dissemination' at the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Rice Compact Launch: Project
Kick-Off Workshop, 6-7 Sep 2018, AfricaRice M’bé Research Station, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire.
Rice Value Chain Compact of AfDB-funded TAAT initiative launched to help scale up proven rice technologies in Africa
The Rice Value Chain Compact of the African Development Bank (AfDB)-funded “Technologies for African Agricultural
Transformation (TAAT)” initiative was officially launched, 6-7 September 2018, at the AfricaRice Research Station in M’bé
near Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire. The TAAT Rice Value Chain Compact will contribute to the AfDB ‘Feed Africa’ initiative through
enhanced deployment of impactful technologies, innovations and products in the rice value chain.
Partners along the rice value chain from 10 African countries attended the project launch to discuss the implementation
plan at country level, the technologies that will be deployed and the approaches and strategies for scaling up the
technologies. Implementation will start in Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra
Leone and Uganda, with spill-over in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea in the first year.
As part of the program, the participants had a guided tour of AfricaRice demonstration plots, seed multiplication, the
postharvest and processing facility and the Genetic Resources Unit. The visit allowed them to see some of the
technologies that have been selected for scaling up through the TAAT Rice Compact.
Sidi Sanyang speaking at the TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
Jean Ekwe Dossa speaking at the TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
Omar Ndaw Faye speaking at the TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
Richard Appoh speaking at the TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
Post-harvest and Processing Technologies -- TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
RiceAdvice -- TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) -- TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
Innovation Platforms -- TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
"Recensement électronique et géo-référence des acteurs de la chaine de valeur riz: cas des pays TAAT" -- TAAT Rice Compact Launch: Project Kick-Off Workshop
Welcome remarks by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley, Director General, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) at CIPA Project Launch
Opening remarks by Ms Claudia Savarese, Associate Programme Officer, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at CIPA Project Launch
Opening remarks by Mr Nyame Kingsford, District Director, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana at CIPA Project Launch
AfricaRice Social Scientist and CIPA Project Coordinator Josey Kamanda at CIPA Project Launch
Opening remarks by Dr Camille Koffi, Agro-Economist, Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA) at CIPA Project Launch
Ken Giller, Professor, Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), The Netherlands at CIPA Project Launch
Francisca van Dusseldorp, Coach, trainer, facilitator agent in international development cooperation, MDF West Africa, Ghana at CIPA Project Launch
Aaron Mahamah, Multi-stakeholder Platform Coordinator, MDF West Africa, Ghana at CIPA Project Launch
Confidence Duku, Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in Hydrology, Geoinformatics (GIS), Water Science, WUR at CIPA Project Launch
Tesfahun Alemayehu Belew, PhD student, Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group (ENR), WUR at CIPA Project Launch
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