Programme  4: Policy and Impact Assessment (Leader: Aliou Diagne)

Rationale

• A better understanding of the policy, social, institutional and market environment in which rice production and trade is taking place is vital in developing strategies for competitive rice sectors within a background of continuously growing demand for rice in Africa. Allied directly to this is the need to systematically assess the impacts of technical and institutional changes within the rice sector, with particular emphasis on productivity, profitability and poverty at the individual, community and national levels.

Goal

• To enhance income and food security in Africa through sustainable rice sector development.

Purpose

• Generate evidence-based knowledge and information that supports development of demand-driven rice technologies, policies and institutions to improve livelihoods, nutrition and economic development.

Outputs 

• Tools, methods and enhanced capacity for impact assessment, policy analysis and priority setting

• Rice policy options and institutions for competitive domestic rice production

• Improved post-harvest systems for competitive domestic rice production

Collaboration with farmer organizations, NGOs, NARES, IFPRI, IITA, ICRISAT, IRRI, FARA, CORAF, UEMOA, ECOWAS, CIRAD, FAO, Oxfam, ROPPA, Universities of Florence, Wisconsin, McGill and Wageningen

Activities in WARDA member countries, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Sudan, Tanzania