Despite their lauded promise in terms of yields and resilience, climate smart agriculture technologies are not widely used in Sub-Saharan Africa. Even in places where adoption occurred, many farmers abandon these technologies after only a few years. We study this problem by investigating the...

The Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) was initiated as policy framework with the aim of doubling rice production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over the period from 2008 to 2018. This paper assesses the contribution of the CARD policy to rice production and forecasts the local rice...

Iron toxicity is one of the most important constraints limiting rice production in lowland sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To improve rice productivity in the affected areas in the context of climate change, new rice varieties with genetic resistance to iron toxicity were developed and released in...