Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)

Date	Title	Venue	Coordinator
2012
9-10 Feb	Journées AfricaRice Bénin	Cotonou, Benin	O Ajayi /INRAB
13-24 Feb	Training Course on Yield Gap and Diagnostic Surveys under the Agronomy and Processing & Value Addition Task Forces	Cotonou, Benin	k Ndiaye
15-16 Mar	AU Commission-AfricaRice Meeting	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
26-30 Mar	32nd AfricaRice Board Meeting	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
June	8th National Experts Committee Meeting	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
September	47th Executive and Finance Committee meeting	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
September	2012 AfricaRice Science Week & GRiSP-Africa Science Forum,	Cotonou, Benin	O Ajayi
2011
2-9 Feb	Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOVC)	Cotonou, Benin	Y Sokei
7-9 Feb	CIMAC Congress - RISOCAS End of project workshop	Stuttgart, Germany	Paul Kiepe
16-17 Feb	Workshop on Knowledge Management	Cotonou, Benin	S. Mohapatra
7-10 Mar	31st AfricaRice Board Meeting	St. Louis, Senegal	S Bruce-Oliver
4-6 Apr	Program Management Committee retreat	Cotonou, Benin	M Wopereis
26 Apr	End-of-project workshop of Canada-CGIAR linkage fund project	Cotonou, Benin	A Diagne
1-8 May	AfDB pre-appraisal mission	Cotonou, Benin	A Diagne
5-6 May	FAO-AfricaRice Seed Policy Workshop	Cotonou, Benin	R Agboh-Noameshie
9 – 10 May	Launching and planning workshop of the Africa Component of STRASA Phase II	Cotonou, Benin	T Kumashiro
12 – 13 May	Africa Rice Breeding Task Force Annual Meeting	Cotonou, Benin	M Sie
31 May to 2 Jun	Postharvest and Policy project launching workshop	Cotonou, Benin	J Manful
6-8 Jun	GRiSP workshop for mechanization - Africa	St. Louis, Senegal	M Wopereis
14-15 Jun	Impact of varieties (DIIVA - Objective3) project launching workshop	Cotonou, Benin	A Diagne
27-30 Jun	Afroweeds project workshop	Cotonou, Benin	J Rodenburg
30 Jun– 1 Jul	IITA/AfricaRice/ICARDA Funders’ Forum	Dublin, Ireland	IITA/AfricaRice
1-5 Aug	Training and brainstorming workshop on rice parboiling, and harvesting-threshing technologies	St. Louis, Senegal	k Ndiaye
15-18 Aug	Training Workshop on Rice Pathology and Simulation Modeling Techniques	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Amos Onasanya
16-18 Aug	Gender task force strategy workshop	Cotonou, Benin	Rita Agboh-Noameshie
22-27 Aug	Training Course for National Scientists on Rice Disease Isolation and Purification Techniques	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Amos Onasanya
12-16 Sep	2011 AfricaRice Science Week and GRiSP-Africa Science Forum	Cotonou, Benin	M Wopereis
22-23 Sep	28th Ordinary Session of Council of Ministers	Banjul, The Gambia	S Bruce-Oliver
24 Sep	AfricaRice 40th anniversary celebration	Banjul, The Gambia	A Diagne
26 Sep	AfricaRice Policy Seminar	Banjul, The Gambia	A Diagne
3-5 Oct	45th Board of Trustees Executive & Finance Committee meeting	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
22-24 Nov	Workshop on “Sawah” eco-technology and rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa	Kumsai, Ghana	Kinky University, Japan, JIRCAS, CSIR, AfricaRice
22-25 Nov	Launching of Africa Rice Agronomy Task Force; and Rice Processing and Value Addition Task Force	Cotonou, Benin	k Ndiaye J Manful
4-9 Dec	Training workshop on Experimental Auctions (CIDA)	Kampala, Uganda	M Demont
5-7 Dec	AfricaRice and IRRI ESA Planning Meeting	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	P Kiepe
6-8 Dec	End-of IFAD WCA project workshop	Cotonou, Benin	A Toure
7-9 Dec	Training course on grain quality (STRASA) for Anglophone countries	Cotonou, Benin	J Manful
12-14 Dec	Training course on grain quality (STRASA) for Francophone countries	Cotonou, Benin	J Manful
12-16 Dec	Training course on Data collection and analysis (Africa Rice Breeding Task Force)	Cotonou, Benin	M Sie
15-16 Dec	CIDA Rice Postharvest and Processing Project Steering Committee meeting	Cotonou, Benin	O Ajayi
15-16 Dec	Workshop on varietal release, national and regional catalogues	Cotonou, Benin	M Sie