Chapter 13

Rice in Mali:

Enhancing competitiveness and promoting

policies for inclusive value chain development

Adam-Yaboua N’KRUMAH, Aziz ELBEHRI, and Bogui LEGRET^1

(^1) Authors are respectively, assistant researcher, senior economist, and an intern at the FAO Trade and Markets Division. This
chapter was written as part of the European Union funded All-ACP Project for the development of basic food commodities
in West and Central Africa. The chapter synthesizes findings from an FAO organized workshop on “rice value chain in Mali
and the role of interprofessions” held in Bamako, Mali in July 2009. The paper also benefited from recent value chain studies
on rice in Mali.