GM 2 meeting, June 2009
The Second General Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 3-4 June 2009
The Second General Meeting of the “Coalition for African Rice Development” (CARD) convened in Tokyo on 3rd and 4th June 2009. The Meeting was attended by delegates from the 12 Sub Saharan Africa countries in the first group of countries approved at the First General Meeting as well as from two observer African countries and the Secretariat of the Mano River Union. Participants from 21 organizations also joined the Meeting as Supporting Partners of the Initiative, along with seven non SSA countries as South South Cooperation partners for rice development in SSA.
