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Can a hungry Mali turn rice technology into ‘white gold’?

Rice farming in Mali

Baguineda, MaliThomson Reuters Foundation When rice farmers started producing yields nine times larger than normal in the Malian desert near the famed town of Timbuktu a decade ago, a passerby could have mistaken the crop for another desert mirage. Rather, it was the result of an engineering feat that has left experts in this impoverished […]