Mitigating the impact of climate change on rice disease resistance in East Africa

COUNTRY/REC Rwanda

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2017 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 AfricaRice
2 IRRI
3 GIZ
4 AfricaRice
5 George August University of Gottingen
6 RAB
7 MARTI (Tanzania)
8 NARO (Uganda)

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 200,000.00 100 200,000.00
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 200,000.00 - 200,000.00

Project Outputs

map to establish baseline data to measure changes in disease patterns under the influence of climate change and to discover resistance genes (tools for climate proofing) to better target rice breeding efforts

Project activities

Technology development

Climate Change

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools