Strengthening the Rice Sector in East Africa for Improved Productivity and Competitiveness of Domestic Rice (EARiSS) Project

To enhance food security and poverty reduction

COUNTRY/REC Kenya

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD August 2019 - December 2022

PROJECT SITE Embu, Kirinyaga, Murang'a, Taita-Taveta

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 AfricaRice
2 IFAD 1,500,000.00
3 AfricaRice 500,000.00
4 Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (Africa Harvest)
5 Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
6 The National Irrigation Board (NIB)

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 2,000,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 2,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To enhance food security and poverty reduction

Project Objectives

Adapt appropriate rice technologies and innovations to address emerging rice value chain constraints

Strengthen functional linkages between key rice value chain actors

Improve the capacity of farmers and other value chain actors (input dealers, rice millers and rice marketers)

Project Outputs

Enhanced large-scale adoption of appropriate rice technologies and innovations

Improved knowledge on the part of farmers and other value chain actors on improved agronomic, post-harvest and marketing practices

Increased availability of quality domestic rice

Increased creation of income-generating opportunities for women and youth

Enhanced access to markets on the part of rice producers

To achieve self-sufficiency in rice by boosting output to 400,000 tonnes

Project activities

Technologies and innovations

Capacity-building

Establishment of functional linkages between rice value chain actors

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Farmers 500
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

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

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Ibrahima Bamba