{"id":13052,"date":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/african-development-bank-green-lights-us63m-multi-cgiar-center-r4d-initiative\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","slug":"african-development-bank-green-lights-us63m-multi-cgiar-center-r4d-initiative","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/african-development-bank-green-lights-us63m-multi-cgiar-center-r4d-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"African Development Bank green lights US$63M multi-CGIAR Center R4D initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image\"<\/a>The African Development Bank has approved a US$ 63.24 million fund package for the implementation of a 5-year, multi-CGIAR Center project dubbed \u201cSupport to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops in Africa\u201d (SARD-SC). It is a research, science, and technology development initiative aimed at enhancing the productivity and income derived from cassava, maize, rice, and wheat \u2013 four of the six commodities that African Heads of States, through the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program, have defined as strategic crops for Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project, which will run until 2016, will be co-implemented by three Africa-based CGIAR Centers: the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Africa Rice Center, and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas. IITA is also the Executing Agency of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another CGIAR Center \u2013 the International Food Policy Research Institute \u2013 a specialized technical agency, will support the other three Centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notice of grant approval was received by Nteranya Sanginga, Director General of IITA, on March 2. It was signed by Dougou Keita, Manager of the Agriculture and Agro-Industry Division 2 of the Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SARD-SC Project comes at an opportune time when food security and nutrition are high on the national agenda of the Bank\u2019s Regional Member Countries (RMCs), as rising food prices push millions of people into extreme hunger and poverty. The SARD-SC allows \u2013 for the first time ever in a single project \u2013 a continental coverage of the food security challenges in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its overall goal is to enhance food and nutrition security and contribute to poverty reduction in the Bank\u2019s low-income RMCs. Its target beneficiaries are individual farmers and consumers, farmers\u2019 groups including youth and women, policy makers, private sector operators, marketers\/traders, transporters, small-scale agricultural machinery manufacturers, and institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bank\u2019s low-income RMCs include Benin Republic, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Ug anda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is expected to contribute towards addressing the current shortfall in food supply in these countries and beyond by working across the full value chain of each crop and addressing both food costs and employment creation. Through its value chain approach, SARD-SC will also contribute to crop-livestock integration based on the use of the commodities\u2019 by-products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The well-tested, IITA-espoused research-for-development model adopted in this project can deliver stellar results as most of the successful technologies, models, manpower, and knowledge to be mobilized in SARD-SC are already available from the implementing CGIAR Centers and national partners. SARD-SC will produce regional public goods that may be used not only in the target RMCs but also in other countries in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey T Oliver (Jeffrey.oliver@cgiar.org<\/a>)
Si\u00e8ge de l'IITA, Ibadan, Nig\u00e9ria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Njugunac.njuguna@cgiar.org<\/a>)
Centre r\u00e9gional de l'IITA pour l'Afrique de l'Est
Dar es Salaam, Tanzanie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godwin Atserg.atser@cgiar.org<\/a>)
P\u00f4le IITA de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
Ibadan, Nig\u00e9ria<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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