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• 1999-2003

In November 2003, N. Uphoff visited this country for CIIFAD in connection with its collaboration in the West African Water Initiative of USAID, the Hilton Foundation, World Vision and other partners. World Vision/Mali and the government's Institute for Economic Research (IER) both expressed interest in trying out SRI methods in this country, which has a large irrigated area in the Office du Niger project. No results have been reported from Mali.

• The West African Rice Development Association (WARDA), which relocated to Mali when conditions for research in the Ivory Coast became unproductive, undertook evaluation research on SRI at its Ivory Coast location beginning in 1999. Though the early on-station results were been as good as generally seen on farmers' field, the physiological effects of SRI practices on tillering, leaf area and other indicators of productivity have been documented. (see WARDA results for 1999, 2001 and 2002). In 2003, Dr. Willem Stoop, who has been supervising the WARDA evaluations visited Madagascar to observe SRI practices and results in their original location (see Stoop trip report). The African Rice Center, as WARDA is now called, is continuing evaluation work on SRI.