Our Partners

As an Association of member states, AfricaRice’s basic modus operandi is partnership at all levels with a wide range of stakeholders: These include governments, foundations, financial institutions, development partners, academic institutions, advanced research institutes, CGIAR Research Centers/Research Programs/Platforms, regional and subregional organizations, national agricultural research systems, non-governmental organizations and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) related to the rice sector.

Governments/Foundations/Financial Institutions/Development Partners

• African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF)
• African Development Bank (AfDB)
• Mastercard Foundation
• Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International (AHBI)
• AfricaRice Member States
• Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
• Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)
• Belgium
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Canada
• Common Fund for Commodities (CFC)
• Côte d’Ivoire (country-specific programs)
• Department for International Development (DFID)
• European Union (EU)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Gatsby Foundation
• Germany (BMZ/GIZ)
• Global Crop Diversity Trust
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• International Fund for Agricultural Research (IFAR)
• Japan (Japan-MAFF; Japan-MOF; Japan-MOFA)
• Liberia (country-specific programs)
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• Nigeria (country-specific programs)
• OCP Group
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Rural Development Administration (RDA), South Korea
• SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV)
• Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• World Bank
• World Food Programme (WFP)

Academic Institutions/Advanced Research Institutes

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
• Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)
• CAB International (CABI)
• Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University (ConDev)
• Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
• Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
• Cornell University
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
• Institut scientifique de recherche agronomique (INRA)
• Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP)
• International Centre for Development-oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA)
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
• Kinki University
• Kyoto University
• McGill University
• Michigan State University
• Montpellier SupAgro
• Nagoya University
• National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS)
• Natural Resources Institute (NRI)
• Nihon University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
• School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA)
• Université de Liège
• Université Laval
• Université Louvain-La-Neuve
• Université Moulay Ismail
• University of Bonn
• University of California-Santa Cruz
• University of Gottingen
• University of Greenwich
• University of Guelph
• University of Hohenheim
• University of Kwazulu-Natal
• University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
• University of Lincoln, Nebraska
• University of Manchester
• University of Maryland Baltimore County
• University of Milan
• University of Sheffield
• University of Tokyo
• Wageningen University and Research Center
• Washington University
• World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg)
• Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences

CGIAR Research Centers/Research Programs/Platforms

• Bioversity International (Bioversity)
• CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research
• CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EIB)
• CGIAR Genebank Platform
• CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture (Big Data)
• CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on rice agri-food systems (RICE)
• CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
• CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
• International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
• International Potato Center (CIP)
• International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
• WorldFish Center (WorldFish)

Regional and Subregional Organizations

• Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
• Centre Régional AGRHYMET
• Commission de la communauté économique et monétaire de l’Afrique centrale (CEMAC)
• Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Développement / West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD)
• Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
• Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
• Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
• Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
• Grow Africa
• Institut du Sahel (INSAH)
• New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
• Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel/Comité permanent inter-états de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS)
• Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine / West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)

National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS)

Benin

• Cellule bas-fonds (CBF)
• Institut national de recherches agronomiques du Bénin (INRAB)
• Université d'agriculture de Kétou
• Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC)
• Agricultural University of Ketou, Benin
• Université de Parakou

Burkina Faso

• Centre national pour la recherche scientifique et technologique (CNRST)
• Institut de l’environnement et des recherches agricoles (INERA)
• Université de Ouagadougou

Burundi

• Institut des sciences agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU)

Cameroon

• Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD)
• University of Dshang

Central African Republic

• Institut centrafricain de recherche agronomique (ICRA)

Chad

• Institut tchadien de recherche agronomique pour le développement (ITRAD)

Côte d’Ivoire

• Agence nationale d’appui au développement rural (ANADER)
• Agence pour le développement de la filière riz (ADERIZ) – formerly ONDR
• Centre national de recherche agronomique (CNRA)
• Ecole nationale supérieure agronomique (ENSA)
• Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB)
• Laboratoire national d’appui au développement agricole (LANADA)
• Fonds interprofessionel pour la recherche et le conseil agricoles (FIRCA)
• Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Institut national pour l’étude et la recherche agronomiques (INERA)

Egypt

• Agricultural Research Center (ARC)
• Katerlsheikh University

Ethiopia

• Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
• Haramaya University
• Mekele University

Gabon

• Agence de développement agricole du Gabon (ADAG) – formerly ONADER

The Gambia

• National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)

Ghana

• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
• CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI)
• CSIR-Food Research Institute (FRI)
• CSIR-Savanna Agriculture Research Institute (SARI)
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
• University of Ghana
• West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI)

Guinea

• Institut de recherche agronomique de Guinée (IRAG)
• Service national de la promotion rurale et de la vulgarisation agricole (SNPRV)

Guinea-Bissau

• Instituto nacional de pesquisa agraria (INPA)

Kenya

• Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
• Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

Madagascar

• Centre national de recherche appliquée au développement rural (FOFIFA)

Mali

• Institut d’économie rurale (IER)
• Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée
• Office du Niger

Mauritania

• Centre national de recherche agronomique et de développement agricole (CNRADA)
• Societé nationale pour le développement rural (SONADER)

Mozambique

• Instituto de investigação agrária de Moçambique (IIAM)

Nigeria

• Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)
• National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria
• National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCEM)
• National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI)
• National Seed Service (NSS)
• Nigeria Institute for Social and Economic Research (NISER)
• University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
• University of Ibadan

Niger

• Institut national de la recherche agronomique du Niger (INRAN)
• Office national des aménagements hydro-agricoles (ONAHA)
• Université de Niamey

Republic of Congo

• Centre de recherche agronomiques de Loudima (CRAL)
• Institut national de recherche agricole (INRA)

Rwanda

• Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB)

Senegal

• Agence nationale de conseil agricole et rural (ANCAR)
• Centre d’étude régional pour l’amélioration de l’adaptation à la sécheresse (CERAAS)
• Cheick Anta Diop University
• Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA)
• Société d’aménagement et d’exploitation des terres du delta du fleuve Sénégal et des vallées du fleuve Sénégal et de la Falémé (SAED)
• Société de développement agricole et industriel (SODAGRI)
• Université Gaston Berger de Saint Louis (UG)

Sierra Leone

• Rokupr Agricultural Research Center (RARC)
• Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI)

Sudan

• Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC)
• University of Khartoum

Tanzania

• Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI)
• Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
• University of Dar-es-Salaam

Togo

• Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie
• Institut togolais de recherche agronomique (ITRA)
• Université de Lomé 

Uganda

• Makerere University, Uganda
• Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute (NAARI)
• National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO)

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

• Access Agriculture
• ANARIZ-CI
• Fédération des groupements et associations de femmes productrices de la région de Saint-Louis du Sénégal (FEPRODES)
• Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
• Centre Songhai
• Doubehi International
• Network of Farmers' and Agricultural Producers' Organisations of West Africa (ROPPA)
• Organisation non gouvernementale internationale Vredeseilanden (VECO)
• Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA)
• Sasakawa-Global 2000 (SG2000)
• West and Central African Women Rice Farmer Group Association (WORIGA)
• Winrock International
• World Vision

Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

• ADAG-NII, Uganda
• AFCF, Côte d’Ivoire
• AGRITECH, Senegal
• AMC-FC, Côte d’Ivoire
• BEERA, Côte d’Ivoire
• BILHOF-SA, Côte d’Ivoire
• FASO-KABA, Mali
• Gan Logis, Côte d’Ivoire
• GRACE-CI, Côte d’Ivoire
• HANIGHA Nigeria Ltd
• INTERFACE
• Intermech Engineering Ltd, Tanzania
• NAFASO, Burkina-Faso
• NASECO, Uganda

AfricaRice sincerely thanks all the donors who have generously contributed to its success:

• AfricaRice Member States
• African Development Bank (AfDB)
• Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
• Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)
• Belgium
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Canada
• Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
• CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
• CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture (CGIAR Big Data)
• CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
• CGIAR Research Program on Rice Agri-food Systems (RICE)
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Department for International Development (DFID)
• European Union (EU)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH        
• Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Japan (MAFF, MOF, MOFA)
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• OCP Group 
• Rural Development Administration (RDA), South Korea
• Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA)
• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)
• West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD/CORAF)
• World Bank