Marco C.S. Wopereis

Why NERICA is a Successful Innovation for African Farmers: A Response to Orr et al from the Africa Rice Center

This paper responds to‘Funding international agricultural research and the need to be noticed: a case study of NERICA rice’ by Stuart Orr, James Sumberg, Olaf Erenstein and Andreas Oswald, published in this issue of Outlook on Agriculture.

Realizing Africa's rice promise: priorities for action.

424 (eds M.C.S. Wopereis et al.) There are the producers and manufacturers of inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides) and machinery, and the traders who sell these, while on the post-production side, there are processors, traders, wholesalers, retailers and consumers. This book deals with a diverse range of topics that are all of relevance to realizing ‘Africa’s rice promise’, defined in the Introduction: ‘Africa has sufficient land and water resources to produce enough rice to feed its own population and, in the long term, generate export revenues’. This concluding chapter brings together the main ideas presented in this book and traces a way forward to develop Africa’s rice sector in a sustainable and equitable manner. We will discuss a number of priorities that are grouped in four main action areas: