Cote Dlvoire, July 18 -- The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional funding window of the African Development Bank Group, on 17 July 2025 approved a $9.44 million grant for the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) to strengthen the climate resilience of rice value chains across West Africa.Funded through ADF's Climate Action Window, the project will support rice producers and processors in 13 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.The initiative, part of the Regional Resilient Rice Value Chains Development Project in West Africa (REWARD), and specifically its adaptation component (REWARD-Adaptation), aims to sca...