ECOWAS launches $650m regional rice project
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has launched the Resilient Rice Value Chain Development Project (REWARD), a programme estimated at $650 million, The West African region will need $25 billion to meet the 2035 target of 35 million tonnes of rice sufficiency. The Commission also inaugurated a regional steering committee to oversee […]
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