Innovation Marketplace Award Recipient:

Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for A New Public-Private Partnership to Develop Irrigated Rice. This partnership was created to meet the needs of farmers and industry for continuous innovations to make irrigated rice production competitive, profitable and efficient. With 14 Latin American countries and CIAT as members, the partnership has already released three varieties and has another nine ready for release.

On stage: Franklin Moore (USAID), Gonzalo Zorilla from FLAR, FLAR partner, and Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair.