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

To mitigate the impact of climate change on occurrence and virulence of pathogens affecting rice yield in East Africa

COUNTRY/REC Uganda

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2017 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 GIZ
2 AfricaRice

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 Goal

To mitigate the impact of climate change on occurrence and virulence of pathogens affecting rice yield in East Africa

Project Objectives

interactions between diseases (bacterial blight and blast) and rice genotypes

Farmers’ knowledge of disease and climate change

Dissemination of technologies

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