JICA West Africa Regional Seminar on Rice Development

JICA Senegal Office organized a regional seminar on West African Rice Development by inviting the representatives from 13 West African rice producing countries in Dakar, Senegal on 18-19 September 2012 in partnership with the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Equipment in Senegal.

  • Concept Paper & Agenda  [PDF] 
  • Note de Concept, Séminaire sur le Développement de la Riziculture en Afrique de l’Ouest [PDF]
  • Summary of the Seminar [PDF]
  • Séminaire sur le développement de la riziculture en Afrique de l’ouest [PDF] 

 

Meeting Documents

Day 1: Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Agenda Item Presentation
Opening Ceremony Chief Representative of JICA Senegal Office [PDF]
H.E. Ambassador of Japan to Senegal [PDF]
Hon. Senegal’s Minster for Agriculture and Rural Equipment [PDF]
Overview of the Seminar CARD Initiative – Current Status and Collaboration with other initiatives CARD Secretariat [PDF]
Senegal’s initiative on rice development (Local Committees for Rice Development) Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Equipment, Senegal [PDF]
Private sector involvement in the promotion of rice mechanization in Senegal: Presentation of requests of private sector and responses of the Senegalese government Private Sector [PDF]
Analysis of Value chain in West Africa Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation [PDF]
Rice research in West Africa JICA [PDF]
Introduction on South-South Cooperation JICA
South-south cooperation in West Africa: Indonesia Indonesia [PDF]
South-south cooperation in West Africa: Thailand Thailand [PDF]

 

Day 2: Wednesday, 19 September 2012

 

Agenda Item
Presentation
JICA cooperation for rice sector in Senegal JICA Senegal[PDF]
Presentation of JICA’s PAPRIZ project PAPRIZ (participatory low cost rehabilitation of irrigation schemes etc.)

Amélioration de la gestion de l’eau d’irrigation des PIV/PIP de Podor[PDF]
[PDF]

PPP approach in Senegal USAID[PDF]
Lowland rice and Food for Work WFP Senegal
[PDF]
Rain fed rice development model in Ghana [PDF]
Post-harvest processing and marketing in Nigeria [PDF]
Tanzania’s  experiences on training and extension service JICA
[PDF]
Training based Rice Extension in Tanzania [PDF]
Summary of the Seminar [PDF]
Resume du Seminaire [PDF]