AfricaRice signs Host Agreement with the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP)
AfricaRice signed a Host Agreement with the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP). The Agreement was signed by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley, AfricaRice Director General, and Dr David Hoisington, Chair of the IBP Board of Directors in the presence of representatives of both organizations and special invitees.
The IBP, with its broad experience in developing plant breeding tools and AfricaRice with its expertise in research and development of the rice value chain, will combine their efforts to modernize rice breeding in Africa so that smallholder farmers can have access to improved and resilient rice varieties to face a changing climate.
The IBP Board of Directors took this opportunity to hold its annual meeting at AfricaRice in Abidjan from 11 to 13 October 2017. This was an ideal occasion for the Board to meet local partners and users of the IBP services as well as to understand the critical role AfricaRice is playing in R4D in Africa, and how IBP and AfricaRice can create synergy by stronger collaboration.
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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