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Objectives
The Rice Congress will serve as a unique platform for all
those involved in rice R&D for sub-Saharan Africa to discuss the competing paradigms and strategies in rice crop
improvement and associated technologies, technology transfer and technology
dissemination pathways, adoption and impact studies, natural resource management
and integrated pest management. The partnership arrangements and the network
structures to be used to achieve higher adoption of rice technologies will be
examined.
The main objectives are to:
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Assess the crop improvement and complementary
technologies developed over the last decade with a view to developing new
directions/approaches
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Evaluate various partnership models for research and
technology dissemination in the context of global challenges to research
funding
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Identify priority areas for partnerships to improve rice
research and its impact on food security and poverty reduction.
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Identify innovative approaches to organizing and
financing (including private sector) partnerships for rice research and
development in Africa.
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