Climate-smart flood and salinity tolerant African rice

COUNTRY/REC Kenya

RESEARCH COVERAGE Multi-country

RESEARCH PERIOD April 2020 - March 2025

RESEARCH SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 IRRI
2 Sokoine University of Agriculture 0.00
3 University of Copenhagen 0.00
4 DANIDA 0.00

Research scheme and budget (USD)

Research budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 1,000,000.00 100 1,000,000.00
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 1,000,000.00 - 1,000,000.00
Multi-country Total 2,000,000.00 100 2,000,000.00

Research Objectives

Identify novel genes or QTLs involved in flood or salinity tolerance of rice using African rice germplasm

Research Outputs

QTL analysis

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

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Max Herzog

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Abdelbagi Ismail