Dr Marcel Nwalozie, Advisor to DG-AfricaRice, presenting “Continental Investment Plan for accelerating Rice Self-Sufficiency in Africa (CIPRiSSA)” at the 10th Biennial Consultative Meeting of the AfricaRice National Experts Committee (NEC) and Preliminary Workshop of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), 20-21 September 2017, Banjul, The Gambia.
The 10th Biennial Consultative Meeting of the AfricaRice National Experts Committee (NEC) was organized in conjunction with the Preliminary Workshop of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), 20-21 September 2017, Banjul, The Gambia. Hon. Omar Amadou Jallow, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of The Gambia, officially opened the meeting.
The 10th NEC meeting was chaired by the Director General of the Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (ISRA), Dr Alioune Fall, as Senegal currently holds the Chairmanship of AfricaRice. 23 out of 26 AfricaRice member countries were present at the NEC meeting. Representatives of four non-member countries – Malawi, Namibia and Mozambique and Zimbabwe – attended as observers.
Representatives of FAO, AfDB, IFAD, CORAF/WECARD, CIRAD, INRA, Global Research Alliance (GRA), GAN-LOGIS Enterprise, and ROPPA also participated in the 2-day meeting.
Dr Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Executive Director, CGIAR System Organisation
Interview : Raafat El-Namaky, Hybrid Rice Breeder, Rice Research and Training Center (RRTC), Egypt
Presentation : Raafat El-Namaky, Hybrid Rice Breeder, Rice Research and Training Center (RRTC), Egypt
Interview : Sidi Sanyang, AfricaRice TAAT Rice Compact Coordinator
Entretien avec Mme Penda Guèye Cissé, Fondatrice/Directrice de «FEPRODES», Saint Louis, Sénégal
Entretien avec Abdoul Aziz Diop, Ingénieur travaux agriculture, Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA), Sénégal
Entretien avec Sidi Cheikh S. Vall, Producteur de semences, SRIA, Mauritanie
Entretien avec Sow Abdoulaye, Centre national de recherche agronomique et de développement agricole (CNRADA), Mauritanie
Présentation de Karim Traoré, Représentant régional d’AfricaRice (par intérim), Saint Louis, Sénégal
Présentation de Sidi Sanyang, Coordinateur d’AfricaRice du Compact Riz-TAAT
Présentation de Abdoul Aziz Diop, Ingénieur travaux agriculture, Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA), Sénégal
Youl Sansan, International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), Senegal
Prof Thérèse Agneroh, International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), Côte d'Ivoire
Mazen El Solh, AfricaRice Project Management and Resource mobilization Officer
Mahé Franck Marcel Guéi, Projet de promotion du riz local (PRORIL), Côte d'Ivoire
Madiama Cisse, Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), Senegal
Krishna Devkota, AfricaRice Agronomist
Kazuki Saito, AfricaRice Agronomist and Flagship leader for “sustainable farming systems”
Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, AfricaRice Extension agronomist
Henri Gbakatchetche, Centre national de recherche agronomique (CNRA), Côte d'Ivoire
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