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Partners

Partners

 

As an Association of member states, AfricaRice’s basic modus operandi is partnership at all levels with a wide range of stakeholders: These include governments, foundations, financial institutions, development partners, academic institutions, advanced research institutes, CGIAR Research Centers/Research Programs/Platforms, regional and subregional organizations, national agricultural research systems, non-governmental organizations and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) related to the rice sector.

 

GOVERNMENTS/FOUNDATIONS/FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS/DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS

  • African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF)

  • African Development Bank (AfDB)

  • Mastercard Foundation

  • Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBI)

  • AfricaRice Member States

  • Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

  • Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)

  • Belgium

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • Canada

  • Common Fund for Commodities (CFC)

  • Côte d’Ivoire (country-specific programs)

  • Department for International Development (DFID)

  • European Union (EU)

  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

  • Gatsby Foundation

  • Germany (BMZ/GIZ)

  • Global Crop Diversity Trust

  • International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

  • International Fund for Agricultural Research (IFAR)

  • Japan (Japan-MAFF; Japan-MOF; Japan-MOFA)

  • Liberia (country-specific programs)

  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

  • Nigeria (country-specific programs)

  • OCP Group

  • Rockefeller Foundation

  • Rural Development Administration (RDA), South Korea

  • SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV)

  • Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA)

  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

  • World Bank

  • World Food Programme (WFP)

 

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ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS/ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTES

  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

  • Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)

  • CAB International (CABI)

  • Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University (ConDev)

  • Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)

  • Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

  • Cornell University

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

  • Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

  • Institut scientifique de recherche agronomique (INRA)

  • Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP)

  • International Centre for Development-oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA)

  • International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

  • International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)

  • Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

  • Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)

  • Kinki University

  • Kyoto University

  • McGill University

  • Michigan State University

  • Montpellier SupAgro

  • Nagoya University

  • National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS)

  • Natural Resources Institute (NRI)

  • Nihon University

  • Pennsylvania State University

  • Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)

  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

  • Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA)

  • Université de Liège

  • Université Laval

  • Université Louvain-La-Neuve

  • Université Moulay Ismail

  • University of Bonn

  • University of California-Santa Cruz

  • University of Gottingen

  • University of Greenwich

  • University of Guelph

  • University of Hohenheim

  • University of Kwazulu-Natal

  • University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

  • University of Lincoln, Nebraska

  • University of Manchester

  • University of Maryland Baltimore County

  • University of Milan

  • University of Sheffield

  • University of Tokyo

  • Wageningen University and Research Center

  • Washington University

  • World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg)

  • Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences

 

 

CGIAR RESEARCH CENTERS/RESEARCH PROGRAMS/PLATFORMS

  • Bioversity International (Bioversity)

  • CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research

  • CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EIB)

  • CGIAR Genebank Platform

  • CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture (Big Data)

  • CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on rice agri-food systems (RICE)

  • CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

  • CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

  • International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

  • International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

  • International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

  • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

  • International Potato Center (CIP)

  • International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

  • International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

  • WorldFish Center (WorldFish)

 

 

REGIONAL AND SUBREGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)

  • Centre Régional AGRHYMET

  • Commission de la communauté économique et monétaire de l’Afrique centrale (CEMAC)

  • Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Développement / West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD)

  • Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)

  • Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

  • Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)

  • Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)

  • Grow Africa

  • Institut du Sahel (INSAH)

  • New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

  • Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel/Comité permanent inter-états de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS)

  • Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine / West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)

 

 

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEMS (NARS)

Benin

  • Cellule bas-fonds (CBF)

  • Institut national de recherches agronomiques du Bénin (INRAB)

  • Université d'agriculture de Kétou

  • Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC)

  • Agricultural University of Ketou, Benin

  • Université de Parakou

 

Burkina Faso

  • Centre national pour la recherche scientifique et technologique (CNRST)

  • Institut de l’environnement et des recherches agricoles (INERA)

  • Université de Ouagadougou

 

Burundi

  • Institut des sciences agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU)

 

Cameroon

  • Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD)

  • University of Dshang

 

Central African Republic

  • Institut centrafricain de recherche agronomique (ICRA)

 

Chad

  • Institut tchadien de recherche agronomique pour le développement (ITRAD)

 

Côte d’Ivoire

  • Agence nationale d’appui au développement rural (ANADER)

  • Agence pour le développement de la filière riz (ADERIZ) – formerly ONDR

  • Centre national de recherche agronomique (CNRA)

  • Ecole nationale supérieure agronomique (ENSA)

  • Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB)

  • Laboratoire national d’appui au développement agricole (LANADA)

  • Fonds interprofessionel pour la recherche et le conseil agricoles (FIRCA)

  • Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

 

Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Institut national pour l’étude et la recherche agronomiques (INERA)

 

Egypt

  • Agricultural Research Center (ARC)

  • Katerlsheikh University

 

Ethiopia

  • Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)

  • Haramaya University

  • Mekele University

 

Gabon

  • Agence de développement agricole du Gabon (ADAG) – formerly ONADER

 

The Gambia

  • National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)

 

Ghana

  • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

  • CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI)

  • CSIR-Food Research Institute (FRI)

  • CSIR-Savanna Agriculture Research Institute (SARI)

  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

  • University of Ghana

  • West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI)

 

Guinea

  • Institut de recherche agronomique de Guinée (IRAG)

  • Service national de la promotion rurale et de la vulgarisation agricole (SNPRV)

 

Guinea-Bissau

  • Instituto nacional de pesquisa agraria (INPA)

 

Kenya

  • Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

  • Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

 

Madagascar

  • Centre national de recherche appliquée au développement rural (FOFIFA)

 

Mali

  • Institut d’économie rurale (IER)

  • Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée

  • Office du Niger

 

Mauritania

  • Centre national de recherche agronomique et de développement agricole (CNRADA)

  • Societé nationale pour le développement rural (SONADER)

 

Mozambique

  • Instituto de investigação agrária de Moçambique (IIAM)

 

Nigeria

  • Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)

  • National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria

  • National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCEM)

  • National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI)

  • National Seed Service (NSS)

  • Nigeria Institute for Social and Economic Research (NISER)

  • University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

  • University of Ibadan

 

Niger

  • Institut national de la recherche agronomique du Niger (INRAN)

  • Office national des aménagements hydro-agricoles (ONAHA)

  • Université de Niamey

 

Republic of Congo

  • Centre de recherche agronomiques de Loudima (CRAL)

  • Institut national de recherche agricole (INRA)

 

Rwanda

  • Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB)

 

Senegal

  • Agence nationale de conseil agricole et rural (ANCAR)

  • Centre d’étude régional pour l’amélioration de l’adaptation à la sécheresse (CERAAS)

  • Cheick Anta Diop University

  • Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA)

  • Société d’aménagement et d’exploitation des terres du delta du fleuve Sénégal et des vallées du fleuve Sénégal et de la Falémé (SAED)

  • Société de développement agricole et industriel (SODAGRI)

  • Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis (UG)

 

Sierra Leone

  • Rokupr Agricultural Research Center (RARC)

  • Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI)

 

Sudan

  • Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC)

  • University of Khartoum
     

Tanzania

  • Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI)

  • Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)

  • University of Dar-es-Salaam

 

Togo

  • Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie

  • Institut togolais de recherche agronomique (ITRA)

  • Université de Lomé
     

Uganda

  • Makerere University, Uganda

  • Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute (NAARI)

  • National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO)

 

 

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs)

  • Access Agriculture

  • ANARIZ-CI

  • Fédération des groupements et associations de femmes productrices de la région de Saint-Louis du Sénégal (FEPRODES)

  • Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

  • Centre Songhai

  • Doubehi International

  • Network of Farmers' and Agricultural Producers' Organisations of West Africa (ROPPA)

  • Organisation non gouvernementale internationale Vredeseilanden (VECO)

  • Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA)

  • Sasakawa-Global 2000 (SG2000)

  • West and Central African Women Rice Farmer Group Association (WORIGA)

  • Winrock International

  • World Vision

 

Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

  • ADAG-NII, Uganda

  • AFCF, Côte d’Ivoire

  • AGRITECH, Senegal

  • AMC-FC, Côte d’Ivoire

  • BEERA, Côte d’Ivoire

  • BILHOF-SA, Côte d’Ivoire

  • FASO-KABA, Mali

  • Gan Logis, Côte d’Ivoire

  • GRACE-CI, Côte d’Ivoire

  • HANIGHA Nigeria Ltd

  • INTERFACE

  • Intermech Engineering Ltd, Tanzania

  • NAFASO, Burkina-Faso

  • NASECO, Uganda
     

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