The Competitive African Rice Initiative helps smallholder rice farmers to increase their incomes and to supply their families and the whole region with high-quality rice. Up to now, on average smallholders earn less than two USD per day. On behals of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walmart Foundation, GIZ is implementing the CARI project in four African countries: Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria and Burkina Faso.
