AfricaRice Grain Quality & Post-harvest Technologist Dr Sali Ndindeng presenting on 'Post-harvest and Processing
Technologies' 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.
Concluding remarks by Dr Lala Razafinjara
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley speaking
Lala Razafinjara, Director General of FOFIFA, Madagascar speaking
Yté Wongbé, Director General of CNRA, Côte d'Ivoire speaking
AfricaRice Deputy Director General Dr Etienne Duveiller speaking
Kouame Ambroise, Projet de promotion du riz local (PRORIL), Ministry of Agriculture, Cote d’Ivoire, speaking
Benoit Clerget, Ecophysiologist, CIRAD, speaking
Ernest A. Asiedu, Chief of Party, West Africa Seed Program (WASP), CORAF/WECARD, speaking
Georges Bredou, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Coordinator of Vision for Changes project activities, speaking
Alexis Ndayiragije, IRRI Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Plant Breeding Program Leader, speaking
Seiji Yanagihara, Miyuki Iiyama, JIRCAS, speaking
Abdoulaye Sawadogo, Director General of NAFASO
AfricaRice Director for Partnership and Capacity Strengthening Dr Samuel Bruce-Oliver speaks at the Joint IFAD-AfDB event
H.E. Dr Papa Abdoulaye Seck addressing the AfricaRice staff
AfricaRice Director General leads round table debate on rice self-sufficiency in Africa at ISRFG 2016 side event
Jacqueline Rakotoarsoa, FOFIFA Research Director, Madagascar at ISRFG 2016 side event - round table debate
Gaoussou Traoré, Coordinator of the National Rice Center, IER, Mali at ISRFG 2016 side event - round table debate
Fréderic Lançon, CIRAD Economist at ISRFG 2016 side event - round table debate
ISRFG opening lecture by Khady Nani Dramé
Baboucarr Manneh's presentation at ISRFG
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