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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) is a CGIAR Research Center – part of a global research partnership for a food-secure future. It is also an intergovernmental association of African member countries.  AfricaRice was founded in 1971 with locations in Cote d‘Iviore (Abidjan Headquarters & Bouake), Senegal (Saint Louis), Nigeria (Ibadan, Abuja), Uganda (Kampala), Liberia (Suakoko), and Madagascar (Antananarivo) with about 200 staff including 33 internationally recruited staff. The mission of AfricaRice is to contribute to poverty alleviation and food security in Africa, through research, development and partnership activities aimed at increasing the productivity and profitability of the rice-based food systems in ways that ensure the sustainability of the farming environment in ways that ensure the sustainability of the farming environment.

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In the project, AfricaRice is involved in the following tasks:

• Identify underutilized species and support in nutrient analysis
• Test rice-fish, rice-vegetable, and rice-legume systems to enhance the productivity of smallholder farming systems.
• Analyze effect of processing methods and nutritional quality
• Examine consumer attitudes towards novel healthy foods through choice experiments
• Validate gender-inclusive business models to support the production and marketing of healthy diets
• Identify ready to scale innovations and evaluate their readiness to scale
• Setup diversified healthy diet scaling infrastructure.