The Africa Rice Center (WARDA), one of the 15 research centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, has recently launched its new website. It provides updated information about the centre (its history, structure etc.), its partnerships, publications and newsroom services as well as its research, including extensive information, inter alia, on the New Rice for Africa (NERICA) varieties developed using embryo rescue and anther culture techniques. See http://www.warda.org (in English and French) or contact [email protected] for more information.

01/07/2006