An end-of-project meeting was held at Africa
Rice Center, 3-4 June, on the CFC-funded project on “Sustainable productivity
improvement for rice in inland valleys in West Africa (SPIRIVWA).”
SPIRIVWA is carried out
in three in three different
agro-ecologies in West Africa (savanna – Burkina Faso; intermediate zone – Côte
d’Ivoire; humid forest zone – Nigeria) with the respective national partners
INERA, NCRI and CNRA.
The project aims at
improving inland-valley rice productivity through the development of water
management structures, participatory farmer training and farmer participatory
experiments with improved weed management practices.
The objectives of the
workshop, which marked the final stage of the project, were to get an overview
of project achievements and to discuss technical and financial reporting. It
was attended by nine project participants.
