CORE VALUES
Adaptation to Climate Variability: Utilize the adaptability of SRI and CRRP to enhance farmer’s capacity to cope with changing climatic conditions, ensuring the resilience of rice cultivation.
Economic viability: Strengthen the economic sustainability of rice farming by improving marketability through improved yields and quality, providing farmers with a competitive edge and better access to markets.
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Community resilience: Build resilience within rice farming communities by imparting knowledge and skills related to sustainable practices, thus fostering long-term stability and self-reliance.
Integration into Traditional Farming Systems: Promote the seamless integration of SRI into traditional farming practices by emphasizing simplicity and effectiveness, facilitating
widespread adoption among local farmers.
Knowledge Transfer and Capacity Building: Facilitate knowledge transfer and capacity building among farmers, extension officers, and local communities, ensuring that the benefits of SRI, CRRP and SLWM are understood and embraced for sustained impact.
Empowering Agriculture
RICOWAS Project Kicks of Training of Trainers on System of Rice Intensification and Climate-Resilient Rice Production.
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Technical Progress
Sierra Leone has potential to increase its domestic production of rice to meet the growing demand and achieve its self-sufficiency. The RICOWAS project and partners are collaborating to ensure increased and sustained domestic production of good quality rice which exerts food security, import substitution and savings in foreign exchange. The ongoing project interventions seek to enhance yields, sustainable agriculture, gender equity and women empowerment, and minimize the effect of climate change on agricultural productivity.
Intervention Zones
Product Purity
75%
Implementation Strategy
Farmers Competence
89%
M & E Activities
Equipment
70%
Access to Quality Seed
Satisfied Customers
80%
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RICOWAS Project Activities
01Component 1
National Technical Group Committee (NTG/GRIT) Report (Activity 1.2.1.2)
01Component 1 & 2
Baseline and Capacity needs Assessment Studies (Activities 1.2.2.1 and 2.1.2.2)
02Component 2
Provide Farmers Access to Equipment and Tools to Implement SRI-CRRP (Activity 2.1.1.5)
02Component 1
Undertake Training-of-Trainer (TOT) Workshops on SRI-CRRP (Activity 1.2.3.1)
02Component 2
Create Partnerships between Private Companies and Producer Cooperatives (Activity 2.2.1.1)
01Component 3
Development of a Communication Strategy and Plan (Activity 3.1.1.1)
03Component 1
Handing over to Beneficiaries (Activity 1.2.2.3)
03Component 2
Generate PPP for the Development and Supply of Innovative Agricultural Equipment and their Provision to Farmers (Activity 2.2.1.2)
03Component 3
(Activity 3.1.1.5)