Two project concept notes from Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) totaling US$4 million were being considered by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for inclusion in its grant pipeline for 2016, according to IFAD president Dr Kanayo F Nwanze.###They will help strengthen the rice sector and food security in sub-Saharan Africa.###“AfricaRice offers IFAD tremendous opportunities, becauscalcium magnesium citrate with vitamin de you have strong partnership in sub-Saharan Africa, with national agricultural research systems, academic institutions, farmers’ associations and non-governmental citracal calcium supplement maximum plus d3organizations that IFAD can benefit from,” said Dr Nwanze.###“We need to invest in explicit azinc citrate sisund tacit knowledge management approaches based on your experiences and lessons learnt.”###“This is an area which will benefit from a stronger partnership.”###Dr Nwanze underlined IFAD’s conviction that Africa holds the key to food security globally. The continent receives about 50% of IFAD’s total investments.###“But no development is possible without research and no peace without development,” he said###“This means there can be no peace without research, which helps combat rural hunger and poverty.”###At the occasion of the 2016 International Women’s Day celebration, AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley highlighted a women-friendly rice parboiling system, called GEM, recently developed by AfricaRice which is making a difference in the lives of more than a thousand women rice processors in Benin.###“IFAD’s experience shows that when you invest in a man, you invest in an individual, but when you invest in a rural woman, you invest in community,” said Dr Nwanze.###“And a cohesive community is a solid basis for stabariatric calcium citrate chewsbility in any country.”###He added that 58calcium carbonate and calcium citrate% of the participants of IFAD projects are women.