Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)

Date	Title	Venue	Coordinator
2008
4-5 February	CAS-IP/WARDA meeting on “Branding and marketing”	Cotonou, Benin	R Agboh-Noameshie
5-7 March	Inception meeting of the IRRI/WARDA project on “Stress-tolerant rice for poor farmers in Africa and South Asia”	Cotonou, Benin	B Manneh
9-15 March	Meeting of the WARDA Board of Trustees	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
25-28 March	UNDP2 (PVS-E) End of project workshop	Ghana	M Sié
31 Mar-1 Apr	RISOCAS Launching Workshop	St Louis, Senegal	P Kiepe
1-3 April	African Rice Initiative (ARI) Steering Committee meeting	Cotonou, Benin	I Akintayo
9-12 June	Formulation workshop on Emergency Rice Initiative	Cotonou, Benin	Marco Wopereis
17-18 June	Launching workshop BMZ project on Bacterial Blight	Cotonou, Benin	Y Sere
23 - 25 June	6th Biennial Meeting of the WARDA National Experts Committee (NEC)	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
24-26 June	Launching meeting: CFC-funded project for Central Africa	Yaoundé, Cameroun	R Agboh-Noameshie
1-2 July	Water Productivity Assessment Workshop	Accra, Ghana	P Kiepe
18-22 August	Formation sur les techniques de production de semences	Porto Novo, Bénin	I Akintayo
15–17 Sep	40th Meeting of the Executive & Finance Committee (EFC)	Cotonou, Benin	S Bruce-Oliver
22-25 Sep	Annual Workshop of IVC	Cotonou, Benin	P Kiepe
25-26 Sep	Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Technical meeting and seminar	Cotonou, Benin	JICA (S Tokuda) & WARDA (M Wopereis)
29 Sep - 8 Oct	Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) in Rice Breeding	Cotonou, Benin	Semon Mande
3-7 November	Research Days	Cotonou, Benin	M Wopereis
Nov 10 - Dec 14	Research capacity development for evaluation of NERICAs in West Africa	Cotonou, Benin	Yoshimi Sokei
1-5 December	CGIAR Annual General Meeting 2008 and associated events	Maputo, Mozambique	cgiar