Africa Rice Development Partnership

COUNTRY/REC Kenya

RESEARCH COVERAGE Multi-country

RESEARCH PERIOD December 2016 - March 2020

RESEARCH SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 AfricaRice
2 Korea-RDA-Rural Development Administration 0.00

Research scheme and budget (USD)

Research budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 177,312.00 100 177,312.00
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 177,312.00 - 177,312.00
Multi-country Total 3,368,932.00 100 3,368,932.00

Research Objectives

To accelerate the development of a new generation of productive and stress-tolerant rice varieties to meet the pressing needs of rice farmers and consumers in Africa

Research Outputs

Broaden the African rice gene pool with high yield and quality traits from Korean rice germplasm

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the research

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