$14m grant to adapt West African rice production to climate.

Byline: S. Kamal Hayder Kazmi

The Climate Resilient Farming Systems program at Cornell is playing a key role in an initiative to make rice more resilient to climate change and increase production of the staple crop for smallholder rice farmers across 13 West African countries, thanks to a four-year, $14 million grant from the Adaptation Fund.

The Scaling up Climate Resilient Rice Production in West Africa (RICOWAS) project's goal is to apply principles of the novel Climate-Resilient Rice Production (CRRP) approach, in order to increase rice productivity, create rice self-sufficiency, and adapt...