The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) is a leading pan-African research organization with a mission to contribute to poverty alleviation and food security in Africa through research, development and partnership activities. It is one of the 15 international agricultural research Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It is also an autonomous intergovernmental research association of African member countries.

AfricaRice contributes to the following ARCAD's programmes:

Cereals in Africa

The AGRHYMET Regional Centre was created in 1974. It is a specialized institute of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), composed of 9 members : Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. It is an interstate public institute with a legal status and financial autonomy. It has an international status and is based in Niamey, Niger.

AGRHYMET contributes to the following ARCAD's projects:

Adaptation to climate change

Bioversity International is the operating name of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) and the International Network for Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP). Bioversity is the world's largest international research organization dedicated solely to the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity. It is non-profit and independently operated.

Bioversity International contributes to the following ARCAD's projects:

Bioinformatics

The CRU and the International Cocoa genebank, University of West-Indies, Trinidad, contribute to the following ARCAD project:

ICRISAT is a nonprofit, non-political organization that does innovative agricultural research and capacity building for sustainable development with a wide array of partners across the globe. ICRISAT's mission is to help empower 600 million poor people to overcome hunger, poverty and a degraded environment in the dry tropics through better agriculture. ICRISAT belongs to the Alliance of Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

ICRISAT contributes to the following ARCAD's projects: