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	NERICA - new rice for West Africa
		A new rice variety is transforming agriculture in a large portion of West Africa, benefiting twenty million farmers- mostly women- and helping reduce the high rice import bills.
		Genetic differences in the two species made breeding difficult but also gave the new rices high levels of heterosis; this is the phenomenon in which the progeny of two genetically different parents grows faster, yields more, or resists stresses better than either parent.
		The new rice smothers grain-robbing weeds like it's African parents, resists droughts and pests, and is able to thrive in poor soils.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /nerica.htm (810 words)

	CGIAR: Newsroom: News Releases
		Researchers at The Africa Rice Center (WARDA) in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire have developed New Rices for Africa (NERICAs) by tapping into the knowledge of local farmers, utilizing Africa's rich gene pool of local rice varieties, and combining these with high-yielding Asian rice varieties that were the mainstay of the Green Revolution.
		"Rice is a major food staple in Africa, and rice demand is spiraling at six percent per annum," said Kanayo Nwanze, Director General, The Africa Rice Center.
		The Africa Rice Initiative launched in 2002 is serving as a platform for coordination and coalition-building.
	www.cgiar.org /newsroom/releases/news.asp?idnews=115 (284 words)

	New Rice for Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Rice for Africa ("NERICA") is an interspecific cultivar of rice developed by the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) to improve the yield of African rice varieties.
		Although 240 million people in West Africa rely on rice as the primary source of food energy and protein in their diet, the majority of this rice is imported, at a cost of USD $1 billion.
		African rice has profuse vegetative growth, which serves to smother weeds; it is also resistant to drought, the insect pest African rice gall midge, rice yellow mottle virus and blast disease.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Rice_for_Africa (499 words)

	Earth Change News on Earth Changes TV on the Web
		New Rice Strains Fight Poverty in Africa, Asia UN (Reuters) - New varieties of "miracle" rice developed in West Africa could soon help African and Asian farmers grow up to 50 percent more of the vital staple each year in far less time.
		Three years of testing in Guinea and Ivory Coast in West Africa have shown that the new varieties, while not requiring fertilizer, are richer in protein and better resist disease, drought and pests than currently grown varieties, UNDP officials said on Wednesday.
		The West African Rice Development Association, which developed the strain with UNDP support, is conducting a workshop next week in the Ivory Coast city of Bouake to identify national partners to help promote the new seed.
	www.earthchangestv.com /biology/April2001/0405rice.htm (396 words)

	Africa Behind in Food Output (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The New York based organisation cautions that without more and better trained local scientists, the cycle of poverty caused by inadequate technologies, low yields and poor markets was likely to continue being experienced.
		The charity now advocates growing of tissue cultured bananas that are free of pests and diseases, which yield over 50 tonnes per hectare, and the new rice varieties for Africa that record yields of up to three tonnes per hectare with low fertiliser use.
		The new rice was developed by researchers at the West Africa Rice Development Association and is now widely grown in Uganda and West Africa.
	www.africabiotech.com /news2/article.php?uid=82 (303 words)

	Africa: Rice for the Future, 02/04/04
		The NERICA (New Rice for Africa) varieties preserve adaptability to African conditions while increasing yields or requiring large new inputs of fertilizer or pesticide.
		Reflecting the characteristics of African rice varieties that have evolved over millennia in the continent's difficult environmental conditions, Nerica is very hardy, resistant to stresses such as drought, common rice diseases and pests.
		Under the new system (adapted from a method developed in Senegal), farmers who are interested in becoming specialized seed producers are trained how to select the best panicles for seed stocks and how to prepare, store and maintain the seeds.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /afrfocus/afrfocus020404.html (2702 words)

	Affine Ugwuadu, Research Indicates Rice Boom
		New Rice for Africa (NERICA) is a technological breakthrough in rice farming pioneered by African scientists in partnership with other experts from specialised agencies around the world, to suit the ecology in the West African sub-region.
		With over half of the region rice area estimated at 837,000 hectres of farmland in Nigeria, the project report wondered why the country cannot produce enough rice to feed its population.
		Moreover, the new technology upon which NERICA thrives is permitted on the need to preserve the ecology of the rice areas.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/34a/131.html (519 words)

	New Rice for Africa from Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Developed by Dr. Monty Jones of the West Africa Rice Development Agency (WARDA), NERICA is a hybrid strain of rice, developed using biotech by West African researchers, which is on its way to bettering the health of West and Central African citizens, restoring agricultural sustainability, and improving the economics of food importation for the region.
		The new hybrid varieties of upland rice mature in only three months, allowing for planting of a second crop or a leguminous cover crop to improve soil fertility.
		Africa is a net importer of rice; demand for rice in West and Central Africa is growing at over 6% annually, faster than anywhere else, and rice imports represent 25% of food imports to the region.
	ieet.org /index.php/IEET/more/new_rice_for_africa_from_africa (789 words)

	Drought resistance of NERICA (New Rice for Africa) compared with Oryza sativa L. and millet evaluated by stomatal ...
		Recently to solve the problem, NERICA (New Rice for Africa) was developed in West Africa by the cross between African rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.) and Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.).
		Including all rice cultivars and lines tested, dry weight at harvest under drought condition was correlated with stomata conductance (r= 0.638**), and cultivars and lines that maintained high growth showed high stomata conductance.
		Eight rice cultivars including two parents of NERICA, six NERICA lines and two millets (common millet and Italian millet) were grown in field under drought condition, and both aboveground and underground physiological measurements of stomatal conductance and soil water contents at individual depth were made to investigate water uptake characteristics.
	www.cropscience.org.au /icsc2004/poster/1/3/2/852_fujiim.htm (1800 words)

	AGRICULTURE FORUM\| A Major Advance in Agricultural Research in Africa:
		Scientists were testing the new rice for Africa-progeny of African-Asian crosses-in rainfed conditions by the mid-1990s.
		The new rices inherited, from their Asian parent, longer panicles with 'forked' branches, and hold up to 400 grains.
		The new rices mature 30 to 50 days earlier than current varieties, allowing farmers to grow extra crops of vegetables or legumes.
	www.allgambian.net /agricultureforum_0501.htm (1112 words)

	ific.org : Agricultural Biotechnology Provides a New Rice for Africa (NewsBite)
		During the past several decades, Africans have come to rely on rice as their staple food, yet found they had to choose between African rice (the kind served at special occasions), which has a very low yield, and Asian rice, which has a higher yield but which is vulnerable to weeds, drought, and disease.
		WARDA developed the rice to provide poor West African rice farmers with a crop that could feed their families, reduce the amount of labor and land needed to grow the rice, and improve their incomes.
		The rice is currently being grown on almost 2,000 acres, and that number is expected to grow to 132,000 acres by 2002.
	www.ific.org /foodinsight/2001/mj/agbiotechnbfi301.cfm (363 words)

	afrol News: New rice varieties left to go-ahead women
		The typical rice farmer has about one hectare of rice fields, which she or he only can use for a few years before weeds take control and soil fertility has degraded too much.
		An Ivorian rice farmer has until now had the difficult choice between the traditional African varieties - low-yielding but resistant to weeds, pests and droughts and adapted to acid upland soils - or the higher yielding Asian species, which are poorly adapted to the African environment.
		The new rices are also taller than other varieties, which makes harvesting easier - especially for women with babies strapped to their backs.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/civ017_rice_women.htm (849 words)

	M E D I U M G R A I N R I C E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Under the Presidential Initiative on Rice, the GON is promoting the adoption of the New Rice for Africa (NERICA) variety developed by the West African Rice Development Institute in Ivory Coast.
		Rice is a regular item in the Nigeria diet, largely because of the convenience and the variety of ways it can be prepared.
		All imports of brown rice are from Southeast Asia but importers have indicated interest in looking to the United States to secure their supplies.
	www.mediumgrainrice.com /news/getnews.asp?newsID=4568 (710 words)

	African scientists to G8: We need new technologies
		Nairobi - When British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that Africa would be the focus of the G8 summit in Scotland in July, he set off heated discussions among Africans on how best to spend the expected hike in aid.
		She cites the example of NERICA (New Rice for Africa), a hybrid developed in Ivory Coast that combines high-yield Asian strains with drought-resistant African ones.
		Africa also urgently needs more research into renewable energies.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /africa/printer_1028035.php (420 words)

	cgiarNews
		First, the WARDA scientists had to develop a technology adapted to the harsh growing environment of upland rice ecology, which employs about 70 percent of the region's rice farmers, mostly women, who lack the means to irrigate and apply chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
		The Africa Rice Initiative (ARI) is a major, multi-donor effort to accelerate the dissemination of NERICAs.
		"Rice is a major food staple in Africa, and rice demand is spiraling at six percent per annum," says Kanayo Nwanze, Director General, The Africa Rice Center.
	www.cgiar.org /enews/march2004/story_18.html (577 words)

	NERICA
		Rice is the staple food in several countries in West Africa.
		The popularity of rice in the population of the region has substantially increased during the recent past.
		The RDP undertook missions to discuss, with the scientists of WARDA and those of the national programmes in West Africa, especially those who are responsible for the Special Programme for Food Security, on measures to expedite the transfer of NERICA to farmers.
	www.fao.org /ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/field/commrice/rdp/rdp4.htm (369 words)

	News - Companies - Africa - Pannar Seed
		New Director General of the Africa Rice Center assumes office, spells out priorities
		Africa Rice Center (WARDA) to pay tribute to research partnership at its 35th anniversary celebration
		Africa Rice Congress adopts far-reaching resolutions and bestows first congressional honor on Dr Nwanze
	www.seedquest.com /News/Companies/Africa/warda.htm (240 words)

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		In West Africa more than 50 % of rice is produced under upland conditions, and hence development of varieties and cultivation technologies for upland and moreover, LISA conditions have been so far strongly expected.
		The second one is drought tolerance in terms of grain yield, and the third one is high adaptability to low fertilizer conditions, which is appreciated as one of the major LISA factors.
		It can be said that the project of the interspecific rice which got a new name of NERICA (New Rice for Africa) is an example of rice biodiversity.
	www.unu.edu /env/plec/cbd/abstracts/Ishii.doc (325 words)

	afrol News: "Green revolution" with new African rice types?
		The new varieties are expected to generate rice import savings of US$ 88 million per year for seven West African countries in 2006.
		The West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) has spearheaded the development of the new rice varieties, with financial and technical assistance UN agencies, Western states and other organisations.
		The new rice is most likely to have a positive impact on improving poor farmers’ income and improving their food security."
	www.afrol.com /News2002/afr008_rice_varieties.htm (806 words)

	IRC - Rice Development Programme
		This is also helping wider adoption of farmer-saved seeds of new rice varieties from these demonstrations, mainly through the help of a trained cadre, of lady block supervisors and women farmers, from rural households in and around these demonstration blocks.
		Rice production systems provide not only food, but also main source of incomes and employment opportunities for poor people in rural areas of Asia and, to a lesser extent, in Africa and Latin America.
		Intensification of rice production is a major activity in the crop intensification component of the Special Programmes for Food Security in a large number of countries; even in countries where rice is not a traditional staple food crop (Table 2).
	www.fao.org /ag/agp/AGPC/doc/field/commrice/pages/ricedevprogramme.html (3972 words)

	SeedQuest - News section
		They are growing enough rice to feed their families, and have surpluses to sell in the markets.
		The Nerica, which was developed originally by the scientists of the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), combines the features of both of its parent plants.
		Nerica — originally developed by scientists of the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), an intergovernmental rice research centre — is a cross between an ancient, hardy African rice variety and a high-yielding Asian variety.
	www.seedquest.com /News/releases/2004/february/7684.htm (2487 words)

	Monsanto on Africa's new winner rice (no GM)
		Besides their increased productivity the new rice plants are also faster maturing- ready for harvesting 30 to 50 days earlier than their predecessors, allowing farmers to grow extra crops of beans and vegetables, and that's not all.
		Chances that the rice could have been introduced from Asia remain minimal, as the African rice is indigenous to small-scale rural farmers in Liberia, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Lake Chad basin and other areas.
		The African rice has the potential to nourish the continent's inhabitants and with some of the recent improvements -SEE RELATED STORY- this may soon be possible especially with the use of modern biotechnology.
	ngin.tripod.com /338.htm (933 words)

	New rice expected to cut poverty, imports
		ABIDJAN - Small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are the targeted beneficiaries of a strategy to introduce new rice varieties developed in West Africa to boost harvests, reduce poverty and save millions of dollars in imports.
		The African Rice Initiative, spearheaded by the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), will invest more than US$15 million over the next five years to spread the new rice among small-scale and women farmers in seven pilot countries, UNDP reported.
		WARDA developed the new varieties during the 1990s in co-operation with farmers in the region and using advanced biotechnology techniques.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/june/africa/0269D1BE5F.html (345 words)

	www.businessinafrica.net \| news New Rice will make Gambia more self sufficient
		Kunjo, who is also the national coordinator for NERICA, said per capita consumption of rice in The Gambia increased from 97kg to 110kg between 1985 and 1990.
		He told a press conference that this trend has serious implications for the country as the demand for rice continues to grow.
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	www.businessinafrica.net /news/354532.htm (342 words)

	New Rice for Africa (NERICA)
		Scientists were testing the new rice for Africa—progeny of African–Asian crosses—in rainfed conditions by the mid-1990s.
		The new rices grow better on infertile, acid soils—which comprise 70% of West Africa’s upland rice area.
		Bintu and Her New Rice for Africa: Breaking the shackles of slash-and-burn farming in the world's poorest region (1,211 kb)
	www.warda.cgiar.org /warda1/main/Achievements/nerica.htm (1203 words)

	Chinese, African Rice Breeders Share World Food Prize
		Monty Jones of Sierra Leone is being recognized for breeding a new rice for Africa.
		The African Rice Initiative was launched in March 2002 to disseminate the New Rice for Africa throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
		Initially, the initiative is focussing on the upland ecology, for which the original new rice varieties were bred.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/mar2004/2004-03-30-01.asp (1023 words)

	Africa: Rice for the Future
		Nerica - originally developed by scientists of the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), an intergovernmental rice research centre - is a cross between an ancient, hardy African rice variety and a high-yielding Asian variety.
		Improved versions of Asian rice also were promoted in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s as part of efforts to export Asia's "green revolution" to the continent.
		But those efforts failed, in part because the higher-yielding Asian rices depended on significant inputs, especially irrigation and fertilizer, and were vulnerable to Africa's harsh weather conditions and poor soils.
	www.africafocus.org /docs04/rice0401.php (3397 words)

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