production and meet the challenge of rice self-sufficiency in the region by 2025. Our analysis uses economic models to forecast …Rice is a strategic commodity for food security in West Africa. Its consumption has grown rapidly over time as a result … of population growth, urbanization, and increasing purchasing power. Dependency on imported rice exposes the region to …

Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and … productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production …