2002

Tue 15 Oct 2002

Increasing Rice Production  (English)
AfricaNews Excerpt from the FAO report The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002. | Rice was one of the first crops to benefit from...

Fri 27 Sep 2002

Japanese Cooperation With Africa Increases Through Ticad  (English)
AfricaNews THE Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) process started in 1993, when the international community w...

Thu 26 Sep 2002

Premier Koizumi Launches Initiative To Help Third World  (English)
AfricaNews THE Japanese Prime Minister, Jonichiro Koizumi, addressed the World Summit for Sustainable Development held in South Africa t...

Cooperation With Africa Increases Through TICAD  (English)
AfricaNews THE Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) process started in 1993, when the international community w...

Sun 15 Sep 2002

Guinea pins hopes on robust new rice  (English)
Seattle Times | The Associated Press MAFERENYA, Guinea — Mamady Douno slips off his flip-flops and wades through his rice field, stoop...

Mon 9 Sep 2002

Guinea farmers plant rice and reap hope -  (English)
CNN MAFERENYA, Guinea (AP) -- Mamady Douno slips off his flip-flops and wades through his rice field, stooping to check the spind...

Guinea Farmers Plant Rice, Hope  (English)
Las Vegas Sun By CLAR NI CHONGHAILE | ASSOCIATED PRESS | MAFERENYA, Guinea- Mamady Douno slips off his flip-flops and wades through his ric...

Guinea Farmers Plant Rice, Hope  (English)
The Associated Press | MAFERENYA, Guinea (AP) — Mamady Douno slips off his flip-flops and wades through his rice field, stooping to check the...

Sun 1 Sep 2002

Johannesburg: le Japon annonce un «nouveau riz pour l'Afrique»  (French)
Swissinfo French   JOHANNESBURG - Le Japon a indiqué vouloir inciter les agriculteurs des pays les plus défavorisés d'Afrique à planter u...

Thu 29 Aug 2002

NGO to fight Mali famine by planting new-type rice  (English)
Japan Times A Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization will seek to counter famine in Mali by planting a new strain of rice in the northw...

Tue 23 Jul 2002

Rice:   (English)
UN Wire U.N. Seeks To Step Up Yields, Limit Environmental Harm; More | The U.N. International Rice Commission opened its 20th session...

Japan hosts rice-tasting party at U.N.  (English)
Japan Today | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 09:30 JST | NEW YORK — Japan hosted a rice-tasting party at the United Nations headquarters ...

Wed 3 Jul 2002

How to Make Nation Great - Aniagolu  (English)
Hoovers 12:49pm | Advertisement: Explore Within This Space Chief (Mrs.) Loretta Aniagolu, financial and management analyst spoke with...

Tue 11 Jun 2002

New rice expected to cut poverty, imports
... Central African countries an estimated US$88 million in rice imports by 2005.
... The initiative aims to make NERICA available as quickly and widely as ...

Der Turbo-Reis von Bouaké  (German)
Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung German BOUAKÉ, im Juni. Wenn der Generaldirektor der Welternährungsorganisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf, beim Gipfeltreffen in Rom Inve...

Thu 6 Jun 2002

New Rice Strains Expected to Reduce Poverty, Imports  (English)
AfricaNews Small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are the targeted beneficiaries of a strategy to introduce new rice varieties develo...

WEST AFRICA: New rice strains expected to reduce poverty, imports  (English)
IRINnews Africa | ABIDJAN, - Small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are the targeted beneficiaries of a strategy to introduce new rice var...

Wed 5 Jun 2002

Women Farmers at the Forefront of Rice Revolution in Africa  (English)
AfricaNews Small farmers across sub-Saharan Africa, many of them women, are at the centre of a strategy to introduce new rice varieties ...

Fri 17 May 2002

Abuja Spends N250bn On Agric Items  (English)
AfricaNews N60 billion on rice importation | The Special Adviser to the President on Food Security, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has put Nigeri...

Thu 16 May 2002

Government to Collaborate With Warda for Quality Rice Production  (English)
AfricaNews The Federal Government is set to collaborate with the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) in the production and ...

Sun 31 Mar 2002

WARDA popularises high yield rice varieties  (English)
Hoovers 10:58pm | Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The development of NERICA variety farming will enable member States of the Wes...

Fri 29 Mar 2002

Rice:   (English)
UN Wire New UNDP-Backed Variety Could Triple Crop Yields; More | New rice varieties developed by the West Africa Rice Development Ass...

Thu 28 Mar 2002

High-yield rice for West Africa  (English)
BBC News Richard Black | BBC science correspondent Farmers in West Africa are set to receive seeds for a new breed of rice, which incr...

Better rice for W Africa  (English)
News24 SA New York - A West African organisation has developed new varieties of rice that could double the current crops without the us...

Better rice for W Africa  (English)
City Press SA New York - A West African organisation has developed new varieties of rice that could double the current crops without the us...