The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) is a pan-African center of excellence for rice research, development and capacity building. It contributes to reducing poverty, ensuring food and nutrition security, and improving the livelihoods of farmers and other actors in the rice value chain in Africa by increasing the productivity and profitability of rice-based agri-food systems, while ensuring the sustainability of natural resources.

The mission of AfricaRice is to contribute to the alleviation of poverty and food security in Africa through research, development and partnership activities aimed at improving the productivity and profitability of the rice sector while ensuring the sustainability of the production environment.