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