Editing Millennium Development Goals (section)

===Sub-Saharan Africa===
One success was to strengthen rice production in Sub-Saharan Africa. By the mid‑1990s, rice imports reached nearly $1&nbsp;billion annually. Farmers had not found suitable rice varieties that produce high yields. [[New Rice for Africa]] (NERICA), a high-yielding and well adapted strain, was developed and introduced in areas including Congo Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Togo and Uganda. Some 18 varieties of this strain became available, enabling African farmers to produce enough rice to feed their families and have extra to sell.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 November 2007 |title=Goal :: Tracking the Millennium Development Goals |url=http://www.mdgmonitor.org/story.cfm?goal=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130105523/http://www.mdgmonitor.org/story.cfm?goal=1 |archive-date=30 January 2012 |access-date=14 October 2012 |publisher=Mdg Monitor}}</ref>

The region also showed progress towards MDG&nbsp;2. School fees that included Parent-Teacher Association and community contributions, textbook fees, compulsory uniforms and other charges took up nearly a quarter of a poor family's income and led countries including [[Burundi]], the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Ghana]], [[Kenya]], [[Malawi]], [[Mozambique]], [[Tanzania]], and [[Uganda]] to eliminate such fees, increasing enrollment. For instance, in Ghana, public school enrollment in the most deprived districts rose from 4.2&nbsp;million to 5.4&nbsp;million between 2004 and 2005. In Kenya, primary school enrollment added 1.2&nbsp;million in 2003 and by 2004, the number had climbed to 7.2&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web |date=1 November 2007 |title=Goal: Tracking the Millennium Development Goals |url=http://www.mdgmonitor.org/story.cfm?goal=2 |access-date=14 October 2012 |publisher=MDG Monitor}}</ref>