What we do

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Technology & Innovation

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Cooperation

Advancing Adoption to Climate Change through ICT Solutions for Nigerian Rice Farmers – a Changemaker’s Story

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Climate Smart, Gender, Technology & Innovation

Advancing Adoption to Climate Change through ICT Solutions for Nigerian Rice Farmers – a Changemaker’s Story

For years, this divide was assumed to be symptomatic of technical challenges: The thinking went that women would catch up with men when the world had cheaper devices and lower connectivity prices, due to the limited purchasing power and financial independence of women compared with men.

Cooperation

A short introduction

CARI's main objective is to increase the competitiveness of small-scale rice producers, millers and other actors in the value-chain and achieve a lasting reduction of poverty in Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Tanzania. But what does the work in these countries entail?

Cooperation

Rice is one of the leading food crops in the world, representing not only a vital part of the individual’s nutrition in every-day life, but also a great revenue potential for African as well as Asian economies as a whole.

Cooperation

A short introduction

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Gender

Women with rice

How curiosity leads to yield and quality increase

Bumpy roads, small villages and elephant grass line the way from Accra down to the rural area called Fievie in the Volta Region. Only one hundred kilometres east of Ghana´s capital, you find rice fields stretching across hundreds of hectares.

Cooperation, Impact

The ECOWAS Rice Offensive

Low yields, weak processing and poor value chain linkages characterize the rice value chain in Africa. These are obstacles for overcoming the import dependency of many African countries and becoming self-sufficient.

Technology & Innovation

Japan-funded ‘RiceAdvice’ project benefits over 16,000 African farmers

Cooperation, Gender, Technology & Innovation

To mark 2021 International Women’s Day, WOFAN rewarded 300 smallholder women farmers from Dogon Bauchi and Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna state, Nigeria, with input and processing equipment, as motivation for taking their own development in their hands.

Impact

Articles were published in the The Telegraph, the Swiss Newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the French newspaper Le Figaro and the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Cooperation, Impact

Extension advisory services (EAS) support smallholders to improve the productivity and efficiency of their farms and to take decisions on the outlook of their business.