Realizing Africa's Rice Promise

Realizing Africa's Rice Promise
ISBN-10
1845938127
ISBN-13
9781845938123
Category
Technology & Engineering
Pages
480
Language
English
Published
2013-10-16
Publisher
CABI
Authors
Marco C S Wopereis, David E Johnson, Nourollah Ahmadi

Description

At a time when Africa's food security stands threatened, Realizing Africa's Rice Promise provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research and recommendations for dealing with future challenges. With contributions from the key scientists working on rice in Africa, this volume addresses policy, genetic diversity and improvement, sustainable productivity enhancement, innovations and value chains. The book is useful for researchers, policy makers, agricultural ministries, donors, regional and sub-regional organizations, non-governmental development organizations and universities.

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