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AfricaRice covers 24 member countries across Africa. AfricaRice is a member of the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers.</description><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>35</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AfricaRice" /><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="africarice" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-3500407873965090306</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-17T09:13:07.435-08:00</atom:updated><title>Mechanization: essential for rice production and processing</title><atom:summary>         Mechanization is  now essential for rice production and processing. If farmers want to intensify  their cropping, they need to speed up the operations that are labor-intensive  when conducted manually. For example, when NERICA production was doubled in The  Gambia between 2007 and 2010, farmers found it difficult to harvest and thresh  the extra rice, which resulted in reduced quality </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2012/01/mechanization-essential-for-rice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-7957938604373715714</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-17T09:10:38.430-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ASI</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Africa Rice Center</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><title>Mécanisation : essentielle à la production et à la transformation de riz</title><atom:summary>La  mécanisation est essentielle à la production et à la transformation de riz. Si  les producteurs souhaitent intensifier leur production, ils doivent accélérer  les opérations réalisées manuellement et à forte main-d’oeuvre. Par exemple,  lorsque que la production de NERICA a été doublée en Gambie entre 2007 et 2010,  les paysans ont trouvé difficile de récolter et de battre l’excédent de riz, </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2012/01/mecanisation-essentielle-la-production.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-2253626200220233566</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-12T08:40:32.521-08:00</atom:updated><title>The case for an affordable locally adapted combine-harvester</title><atom:summary>
Harvesting  and threshing of paddy are serious bottlenecks for rice farmers. Large  combine-harvesters are ill adapted to the rice fields of smallholders.  Consequently, paddy may sit in the field for weeks or even months waiting to be  harvested or threshed, during which time its quality deteriorates because of  exposure to the elements.  
As a result, many rice farmers resort to manual </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/12/case-for-affordable-locally-adapted.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-7687146753449681108</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-12T08:38:59.567-08:00</atom:updated><title>Le cas d’une moissonneuse-batteuse adaptée et accessible localement</title><atom:summary>La récolte et le battage du paddy constituent de sérieuses  contraintes pour les riziculteurs. Les grandes moissonneuses-batteuses sont  inadaptées aux petites exploitations des paysans. Par conséquent, le paddy peut  rester au champ pendant des semaines avant d’être récolté ou battu, pendant ce  temps sa qualité se détériore du fait de l’exposition aux aléas climatiques.  

Ainsi, de nombreux </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/12/le-cas-dune-moissonneuse-batteuse.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-4543756849574459140</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-12T08:33:58.366-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">CGIAR</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Papa Abdoulaye Seck</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marco Wopereis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Africa Rice Center</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">GRiSP-Africa</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Congrès du riz en Afrique</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">GCRAI</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><title>Mise en place des Groupes d’action à l’échelle du continent africain en vue d’accélérer la livraison de technologies rizicoles</title><atom:summary>Les experts riz nationaux et internationaux d’Afrique se sont réunis pour mettre en place des Groupes d’action à l’échelle du continent dans les domaines thématiques importants du secteur rizicole en vue de stimuler la livraison de technologies améliorées.


Se focalisant sur cinq thèmes – (1) sélection, (2) agronomie, (3) post-récolte &amp; valorisation, (4) politique, et (5) genre – les Groupes d’</atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/12/mise-en-place-des-groupes-daction.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-506691861007754227</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-23T06:39:49.802-08:00</atom:updated><title>AfricaRice Scientist wins 2011 Japan International Award for Young Researchers</title><atom:summary>Dr. Jonne Rodenburg, Agronomist with special focus on weed science at the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) has won the 2011 Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers for spearheading the development of integrated weed management strategies for resource-poor rice farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

The Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers recognizes </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/11/africarice-scientist-wins-2011-japan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-7520689327208422383</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-23T06:36:55.568-08:00</atom:updated><title>Un chercheur d’AfricaRice remporte le prix international japonais 2011 des jeunes chercheurs</title><atom:summary>Dr Jonne Rodenburg, malherbologue au Centre du riz pour l’Afrique (AfricaRice), a remporté le Prix international japonais des jeunes chercheurs agricoles pour avoir contribué au développement de stratégies intégrées de gestion des adventices pour les riziculteurs pauvres d’Afrique subsaharienne (ASS).

Le prix international japonais des jeunes chercheurs agricoles récompense des performances </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/11/un-chercheur-dafricarice-remporte-le.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-5328892678348513892</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-18T03:41:24.758-08:00</atom:updated><title>Recent research on rice diseases in Africa</title><atom:summary>The recent dramatic increase in world rice prices drastically affected
African countries, which are heavily dependent on rice imports. Consequently,
many African countries are trying hard to develop their largely unexploited
rice potential to boost domestic production. However, both expansion (the
development of new areas) and intensification of rice cultivation will bring
new problems, including</atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/11/recent-research-on-rice-diseases-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-7441895686073767711</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-18T03:35:26.354-08:00</atom:updated><title>Les travaux récents sur les maladies du riz en Afrique</title><atom:summary>

L’augmentation spectaculaire récente des prix du riz a considérablement affecté les pays africains qui dépendent fortement des importations de riz. Subséquemment, plusieurs pays africains ne ménagent aucun effort en vue de développer leur potentiel rizicole largement inexploité en vue de relancer la production locale.

Cependant, l’expansion (la mise en valeur de nouvelles superficies) et l’</atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/11/les-travaux-recents-sur-les-maladies-du.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-588523504979753934</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-13T09:49:09.379-07:00</atom:updated><title>Capacity building</title><atom:summary>Building the capacity of organizations and individuals so that they can carry out their work effectively and efficiently is an integral part of the majority of AfricaRice projects. For many years, the agricultural sector has been under-resourced in sub-Saharan Africa to the point that many national agricultural research systems (NARS) were aging and shrinking, because of the lack of qualified </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/10/capacity-building.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-8203456163900201059</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-13T09:45:16.136-07:00</atom:updated><title>Renforcement des capacités</title><atom:summary>Renforcer les capacités des organisations et des individus afin qu’ils mènent leurs travaux de façon efficace et efficiente fait partie intégrale de la majorité des projets d’AfricaRice. 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to deliver greater development impacts.The innovative program known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) aims to </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/10/rice-experts-in-africa-adopt-new-way-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-83017286270444800</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-06T14:04:33.968-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">CIAT</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Achim Dobermann</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gambie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Papa Abdoulaye Seck</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">JIRCAS</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">IRRI</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Babou Jobe</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">CIRAD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NARI</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">IRD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">GRiSP</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Marco Wopereis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Africa Rice Center</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><title>Les experts riz d’Afrique adoptent une nouvelle façon de faire les choses en vue d’un impact plus grand</title><atom:summary>Dans le cadre d’un programme mondial sur la science rizicole qui s’est fixé pour objectif d’avoir d’importants impacts concrets et quantifiables susceptibles de profiter aux pauvres, aux affamés et à l’environnement au cours des 25 prochaines années, les chercheurs riz d’Afrique ont adopté des approches de recherche interdisciplinaire finalisée en vue d’un impact plus grand.Le programme </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/10/les-experts-riz-dafrique-adoptent-une.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-1754561716868821400</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-20T03:57:33.305-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">African Union and AfricaRice sign MoU to promote Africa’s rice sector</category><title>African Union and AfricaRice sign MoU to promote Africa’s rice sector</title><atom:summary>In recognition of the growing importance of rice as a strategic crop for Africa’s food security and poverty reduction, the African Union Commission and the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly promote the rice sector in the continent through research, development, supportive policies and capacity building.The MoU focuses particularly on the </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/07/african-union-and-africarice-sign-mou.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-4165049808966349961</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-20T03:54:18.052-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">L’Union africaine et AfricaRice signent un protocole d’accord pour la promotion du secteur rizicole en Afrique</category><title>L’Union africaine et AfricaRice signent un protocole d’accord pour la promotion du secteur rizicole en Afrique</title><atom:summary>Conscients de l’importance croissante du riz en tant que denrée stratégique pour la sécurité alimentaire et la réduction de la pauvreté en Afrique, la Commission de l’Union africaine et le Centre du riz pour l’Afrique (AfricaRice) ont signé un 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</atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/07/les-acteurs-de-la-riziculture-en.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-7125756331743104450</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-19T07:44:31.990-07:00</atom:updated><title>Pioneering project launched to boost quality rice production in Africa</title><atom:summary>&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;A pioneering project to enhance the quality and marketability of locally-produced rice through improved harvest and postharvest technologies in eight pilot countries of West and East Africa has just been launched by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice). Describing the project as “one of the first-of-its-kind for rice in </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/06/pioneering-project-launched-to-boost.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-2029613559211404838</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-19T07:31:06.818-07:00</atom:updated><title>Lancement d’un projet phare pour booster la production du riz de qualité en Afrique</title><atom:summary>Un projet phare pour améliorer la qualité et la commercialité du riz produit localement à travers des technologies améliorées de récolte et de post-récolte dans huit pays pilotes en Afrique de l’Ouest et de l’Est vient d’être lancé par le Centre du riz pour l’Afrique(AfricaRice).Selon Dr. Aliou Diagne, économiste d’AfricaRice, ce projet est parmi les premiers du genre pour la riziculture en ASS. </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/06/lancement-dun-projet-phare-pour-booster.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-5910110859024077897</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-16T10:00:50.591-07:00</atom:updated><title>Rice is competitively produced in sub-Saharan Africa</title><atom:summary>Despite the potential, there was not sufficient support from national governments for the production of domestic rice in the past since it was believed to lack comparative advantage vis-à-vis imported rice, though evidence from empirical studies have repeatedly indicated that rice is competitively produced in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:</atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/06/rice-is-competitively-produced-in-sub.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-4252117666099724377</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-16T09:52:50.820-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Le riz est produit de manière compétitive en Afrique sub-saharienne</category><title>Le riz est produit de manière compétitive en Afrique sub-saharienne</title><atom:summary>Dans le passé, malgré le potentiel existant, il n’y avait pas suffisamment de soutien de la part des gouvernements nationaux pour la production de riz local puisqu’on croyait qu’il manquait un avantage comparatif vis-à-vis du riz importé. Cependant, les preuves issues d’études empiriques ont indiqué à plusieurs reprises que le riz est produit de manière compétitive enASS.  Par exemple, sur la </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/06/le-riz-est-produit-de-maniere.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-7979138762079764043</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-03T09:49:44.898-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boosting Africa’s rice sector</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><title>Boosting Africa’s rice sector</title><atom:summary>Most African governments have consolidated the gains in rice productivity made in 2008, after the food crisis hit the continent. This has involved a host of measures ranging from subsidy for seed and fertilizers to restoring irrigation infrastructure and establishing milling and storage structures. &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;Despite this, Africa’s </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/06/boosting-africas-rice-sector.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-4738595212951346202</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-03T09:48:51.118-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Relancer le secteur rizicole en Afrique</category><title>Relancer le secteur rizicole en Afrique</title><atom:summary>&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;La plupart des gouvernements africains ont consolidé les gains réalisés en 2008 dans la production rizicole, après que la crise alimentaire ait frappé le continent. Cela a impliqué une série de mesures allant de la subvention des semences et des engrais à la restauration des infrastructures d’irrigation et la mise en </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/06/relancer-le-secteur-rizicole-en-afrique.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-6556117904956654915</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-27T10:06:48.678-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Enough land</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">UNEP</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">enough water</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><title>Enough land, enough water</title><atom:summary>Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has enormous potential for developing and increasing rice production. There is tremendous scope for developing rainfed lowland rice areas, augmenting the area under irrigation, and raising yield levels in farmers’ fields through diffusion and adaptation of rice technology to local conditions. The total area of land potentially suitable for crops in Africa is estimated to </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/05/enough-land-enough-water.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465749967612330971.post-1260914651740455945</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 17:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-27T10:05:17.532-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Suffisamment de terres</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">PNUE</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">suffisamment d’eau</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">AfricaRice</category><title>Suffisamment de terres, suffisamment d’eau</title><atom:summary>L’Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) dispose d’un grand potentiel pour développer et augmenter la production rizicole. Il existe de grandes possibilités pour mettre en valeur les zones de bas-fonds rizicoles, augmenter la superficie irriguée et accroître les rendements dans les champs des paysans par la diffusion et l’adaptation des technologies rizicoles aux conditions locales. La superficie totale de </atom:summary><link>http://africarice.blogspot.com/2011/05/suffisamment-de-terres-suffisamment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (AfricaRice updates)</author></item></channel></rss>

