The Sustainable Rice NDC Alliance continues to support its core aim of implementing high-yield low-emission rice agriculture by elevating rice-related NDC commitments. SRI-2030, the Alliance secretariat, is now focusing its support on Africa, although it will continue to support all nations pursuing sustainable rice production.
The Alliance continues to work directly with governments to design rice roadmaps with a current focus on West African nations. These are practical implementation plans combining agricultural policies such as National Rice Development Strategies or Climate Smart Agriculture frameworks with climate policy commitments as in countries’ NDCs.
Events: A Focus on Finance meeting was followed by a panel on Food and Agriculture in Dubai in November 2023. Other recent activities include co-hosting a February workshop in Nairobi on African Paddy Rice Greenhouse Gas Mitigation. and an April webinar with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to examine how the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) can contribute to climate and development objectives of the Bank’s goals.
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A delegation from the global SRI community attended the 6th International Rice Congress (IRC) in Manila, Philippines, held October 16-19, 2023. The group included SRI representatives from Chile, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Philippines, UK, and USA. Various members of the group made scientific presentations and answered queries at the SRI booth at the IRC, and subsequently participated in side events, including a SRI Research Network meeting, a Philippines Dept. of Agriculture SRI Forum, a SRI meeting for national/regional SRI networks around the world, and field trips to three provinces. The visit was hosted by the SRI-Pilipinas network, organized by SRI-Rice (a program at Cornell University), SRI Global (an NGO in Ithaca, New York) and IndoSRInet (the Indonesian SRI network), and funded by SRI-2030 (an NGO in the UK).
In addition to the IRC events, several participants gave presentations at a Department of Agriculture Forum on SRI on October 20. Organized by the Philippines Council on Agriculture and Forestry (PCAF), the Forum on SRI Practice and Policy: Cross-Country Sharing included an address by the Philippines Undersecretary for Rice Industry Development, Leocadio Sebastian, and helped to strengthen the Philippine Government’s perception of what increased promotion of SRI could achieve within the rice sector. The government has recently approved 250 million pesos for SRI promotion throughout the country. Finally, with the assistance of SRI-Pilipinas members and Adelberto Baniqued, international participants visited SRI-Pilipinas SRI field sites and government assisted programs in the provinces of La Union, Quezon, and Davao del Norte. [contact sririce@cornell.edu for more info]
This article by Jen McCallum is published on the SRI-2030 blog. The year 2015 was a big one for the world. Global negotiations delivered both the Paris Agreement and the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda in the same year. The recognition of climate change and its linkages to sustainable development were enshrined in official documentation providing the international community with a sustainable manifesto for transformation. Yet, despite almost eight years passing since then (it is now 2023), targets remain unmet and the prospects of reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SGD) by 2030 are rapidly dwindling. In this article, we bring to light the multiple synergistic benefits the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) brings to sustainable development.
...SRI 2.0 is a set of adaptations of the original practices to be effective under different constraints or opportunities. The principles remain the same – rainfed SRI, direct-seeded SRI, mechanized SRI, etc. SRI 3.0 is the extension and adaptation of SRI ideas and principles to other crops – wheat, millet, sugarcane, mustard, etc. – in other words, the System of Crop Intensification. SRI 4.0 is the integration of SRI ideas into farming systems, going beyond monocropping. SRI 5.0 is the use of SRI beyond agricultural production like reducing GHG emissions, climate-proofing crops, improving women’s working conditions, increasing the nutritional quality, and other ‘externalities’. SRI 6.0 is the research to advance scientific understanding of how and why SRI works. (These versions are not sequential).
SRI has shown the prime importance of two factors: plant roots and the life in the soil. SRI seeks to elicit the genetic potentials to evoke better, more robust phenotypes from a given variety (genotype). In a changing climate, it will become important to grow crops with bigger root systems in soils that have greater abundance of beneficial soil organisms.
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This paper accompanied Norman Uphoff's keynote address at the International Conference on the System of Crop Intensification for Climate-Smart Livelihoods and Nutritional Security (ICSCI22) that took place December 12-14, 2022, at ICAR, Hyderabad, India. [This paper, along with other lead speakers' presentations, is included in a special edition (vol. 15) of SARR's Journal of Rice Research:https://sarr.co.in/2023/02/05/volume-15-special-issue/]
Rice is the staple crop for over half of the world’s population and provides a livelihood for around one billion people. Traditional rice cultivation is, however, the largest crop contributor to greenhouse gases (GHG), with up to 12% of global methane emissions coming from flooded paddies. Small-holder farmers produce 90% of rice, living on the front-line of the changing climate, trying to secure food and income.
The problem: Rice is key to food security, providing the livelihood and being the staple crop for billions, but rice cultivation is also the second biggest emitter of methane in agriculture.
Why it matters: Food security and climate change mitigation and adaptation are essential to the survival and prosperity of every nation.
The solution: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): A proven, cost-effective, and scalable approach to rice cultivation that increases yields and returns for farmers while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption.
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...System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methods reduce water use and can increase crop yields by anywhere from 20 to 200 percent. SRI has been adapted and tested around the world ever since. A three-year World Bank project in West Africa found an 86 percent average rise in yield in rain-fed areas and 56 percent in irrigated areas. The farmers involved in the project saw a 41 percent increase in their yearly income.
“At least 25 million farmers are now using these methods on 7 to 8 million hectares,” says Norman Uphoff, senior advisor for SRI-Rice at Cornell.
With paddy rice responsible for an estimated 1.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the system has another bonus: a big reduction in the production of methane, a particularly noxious greenhouse gas emitted from flooded rice fields as bacteria builds up in the waterlogged soil.
French language videos about the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). This SRI-Rice-curated SRI playlist contains over 40 videos about the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the French language.
Articles are being accepted UNTIL NOV. 1 for an upcoming special edition of Agronomy that will focus on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)! As SRI methods have been found repeatedly to evoke more productive and robust rice phenotypes from given genotypes, its use has spread, and the methodology has now been validated in >60 countries. During this process, the practices that apply SRI’s basic principles have been diversified and modified. For example, SRI is now applied for rainfed and direct-seeded rice, not only to transplanted, irrigated cultivation. SRI principles have also been extrapolated to other crops, such as wheat, sugarcane, millet, mustard, teff, etc.
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Time is running out to contribute an article as the deadline for submission is November 1, 2020! [Please send abstract first] This issue, to be edited by Norman Uphoff, will present findings on ways in which SRI concepts are being utilized in diverse environments with modified practices, such as reducing labor requirements through mechanization and improving the productivity of crops other than rice. It will thus update understanding and application of the original ideas that constitute SRI, welcoming critical and empirical evaluations of SRI.
An article in Agronomy shows that there need not be a trade-off between food security and climate change mitigation. A review of field studies found that SRI is associated with both reduced GHG emissions and higher yield compared with conventional flooded rice farming. The authors found that the mean reduction in emissions per kilogram of rice produced was 48% when SRI is compared with conventional practices. Yield benefits of SRI compounded the already significant reduction in emissions associated with alternate wetting and drying (AWD). The authors recommend that farmers be encouraged to adopt SRI practices given the dual benefits for food security and climate change mitigation. They also cited other benefits of SRI, and call for more research into the potentially even more significant benefits of soil carbon sequestration with SRI. [This article is published in Agronomy's Special Issue on “The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)—Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability”]
This presentation by one of the earliest investigators of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) will review the practices, principles and effects of SRI and then some of the initial criticisms and objections. The main focus will be on scientific issues and opportunities that warrant investigation from agricultural science and/or social science perspectives.
SPEAKER: Norman Uphoff, DATE: February 21, 2024, [see video] VENUE: Cornell University, 175 Warren Hall; or, online via zoom ORGANIZERS: Dept. of Global Development, Cornell University. This presentation is part of the "Perspectives in International Development" seminar series
This paper considers the phenotypical changes and physiological improvements in SRI-grown rice plants could account for the reported enhancement in yield. The published literature provides abundant evidence that the earlier evaluations of SRI were either not well-informed or not objective, and possibly, that they discouraged others from embarking on systematic evaluations of their own.
This article examines the results of 78 studies in the published literature where SRI results were explicitly compared with Recommended Practices (RPs) , including BMPs, or Farmer Practices (FPs). The results from 27 countries, plus several large-scale evaluations, show that in 80% of the evaluations, grain yield was higher under SRI than with RPs or FPs. SRI on average gave 24% higher grain yield than RPs and 56% more than FPs, while reducing seed, water, and fertilizer inputs.
International Women's Day March 8, 2023 - Women’s Essential but All Too Invisible Role in the “Spirit of Rice” by Olivia Vent. Women provide 50-90% of labor in growing the world's rice crop.
....[In addition to other ways to support women] a modest investment would be to train more farmers on the principles and practices of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). With SRI methods, farmers can improve their yields by 50-100% and even more with less or no agrochemicals , and with less work and fewer health hazards for women. Rice fields are no longer kept continuously flooded, so women do not have to work in standing water. They have 80-90 percent fewer seedlings to sow in nurseries, uproot, transport, and transplant. And seedlings are not only fewer, but much younger and lighter to carry. SRI enables women to weed fields faster and in an upright posture not bent over for hours.
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For more info on gender issues and SRI, see article by Amtul Waris: "Adept to Adapt: Closing the Gender Capacity Gaps for Scaling Up System of Crop Intensification" published in the Journal of Rice Research 15(special issue): 231-234. doi:10.58297/MJDW2273
SRI-2030 has a number of educational infographics and brochures on SRI related to GHGs, water use, Conservation Agriculture adaptations, food security, and other topics.
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These downloadable items from SRI-2030 provide concise, short introductions to several areas where SRI can have a significant impact on the lives of farmers as well as the planet.
"It has been widely assumed that market mechanisms are central in incentivizing the development of sustainable innovations and that market formation is critical for the diffusion of innovations. We challenge the centrality of markets in understanding and promoting the development and diffusion of sustainable innovations using the case of the System of Rice Intensification. This innovation for sustainable rice cultivation was developed and diffused without relying on market mechanisms yet has been adopted by millions of farmers worldwide. To further our understanding of economic mechanisms beyond markets, we revisit Polanyi's distinction between markets, reciprocity, redistribution, and subsistence. This distinction helps to situate markets in a broader economic context and helps to understand how mechanisms for market exchange intersect with other types of economies in ways that can either positively or negatively affect sustainability."
For the Java area, usually to produce rice using non-SRI methods, it takes between 3000-4000 liters of water to grow 1 kilo of rice. Using SRI, we only need about 750 liters of water per kilo of rice. This is a dramatic difference.
...SRI is definitely more women friendly. Because it uses 90% less seedlings with single seedlings planted wider apart, women can save time when planting. The time saved is used to gather food for their animals which are valuable sources for compost and extra income. Now they can expand their livestock numbers. Also, the women have less skin disease because they are not working in flooded fields and have fewer cases of malaria.
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[Updated version of the Project Drawdown website.] Rice is the staple food of 3 billion people, providing one-fifth of calories consumed worldwide. Its cultivation is responsible for at least 10 percent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and 9 to 19 percent of global methane emissions. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a holistic approach to sustainable rice cultivation. By minimizing water use and alternating wet and dry conditions, it minimizes methane production and emissions.
SRI has been adopted largely by smallholder farmers and has much higher yield benefits compared to improved rice production. We calculate that SRI can expand from 6.7 million hectares to 40-52 million hectares by 2050, both sequestering carbon and avoiding methane emissions that together total 2.8-4.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent over thirty years. With increased yields, 333-510 million additional tons of rice could be produced, earning farmers an additional $574-817 billion in profit in the lifetime and lifetime operational savings of $14-21 billion.
The SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange is a group for those adapting rice production equipment for use with System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methods, designing prototypes, or who are interested in finding SRI equipment ideas for their own farm or project. Sign up here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SRI.innovators/
...A few years in, [Ken Lee and Caryl Levine of Lotus Foods] were introduced to a new method of rice farming, the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)—a more sustainable way to grow rice using less water, less seed, and no agrochemicals that results in a double yield for farmers. “Learning about SRI and seeing the benefits for people and the environment is when we realized that growing rice organically wasn’t enough, and that we had to rethink altogether how the world grows rice,” explains Levine. “We have to feed the increasing global population with less water, land, and labor. Especially water, our most precious resource.”
And so that became their mission. Partnering with small-scale farmers in several countries, Lee and Levine worked to emphasize better growing practices by applying SRI methods, while also establishing fair and effective supply chains that would lessen environmental impact and create social and economic justice for farmers.
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