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This handbook was designed primarily for Peace Corps Volunteers in West Africa and their communities, but is applicable to other audiences as well–both outside of Peace Corps and outside of West Africa. The SRI methodology it covers is an adaptable strategy for ecologically increasing rice production while decreasing inputs, and with some local adaptation can be used in a wide variety of circumstances. 
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Poster: The System of Tef Intensification (STI): Modifying crop management for greater food security in Ethiopia. Authors: Tareke Berhe, Ayele G. Ayetenfisu and Norman Uphoff. Presented October 13, 2015, at the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security at Cornell University.
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Tef is an important food grain in Ethiopia. The System of Tef Intensification described here is an adaptation of SRI principles to tef production.
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Find out how SRI reduces the pain, drudgery and time required by women to grow rice!
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Lotus Foods imports rice grown with SRI methods to the USA. They now have a campaign to show how SRI affects women and water. You can learn more on their website.
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Gaoussou Traore and Erika Styger delivered a presentation "Improving and Scaling Up SRI in West Africa - A Success Story" on Sept. 15 at Cornell University's SRI-Rice Seminar Series.
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Gaoussou and Erika subsequently presented the successes of the 3-year 13-country SRI WAAPP project at the Oxfam office and the World Bank in Washington DC. The project on Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa is in now in its second year.
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Film sur le SRI dans les bas-fonds péri-urbain en Guinée
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This French language video from Guinea's national television station interviews representatives from the SRI-WAAPP project (Barry Billo, the National Facilitator, and Ibrahima Gassama, the M&E Officer for WAAPP Guinea), as well as a local farmer. [For more on the 13-country SRI-WAAPP project, see http://sriwestafrica.org]
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has received an award for the "best sustainable development practices for food security" at the Italy Rice Expo in Milan. IFAD has been specially recognized for promoting SRI in African countries and helping them attain food security.
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"HENRY SINYANGWE, Lusaka.The United States (US) Government has awarded US$35,000 to four Zambian community-based organisations through the United States African Development Foundation (USADF). Grants awarded will purchase a rice processing mill to benefit the farmer members of the Centre for System of Rice Intensification in Solwezi..."
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Mendesora United is a group of poor farmers from Mendesora village in Northern Sierra Leone. They have recently been introduced to a new form of growing rice - SRI.
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This is part of a series of SRI videos produced through a collabortion between Flooded Cellar Productions and SRI-Rice. To see the others, go to the Flooded Cellar channel's SRI playlist on YouTube
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How rice farmers in Africa can point us out of California's water crisis - Christian Science Monitor
We can make agriculture more productive and reduce water use at the same time.
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This article was written by Devon Jenkins, SRI-Rice technical specialist for Africa.
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Africa RISING is creating awareness on available and appropriate labour-saving and efficient weed management practices to boost rice production in Tanzania.
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An agro-entrepreneurial group made up of the agriculture graduates in Nigeria have successfully piloted a three-cycle rice production programme in Niger State...
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Agriculture Graduates Association of Nigeria (AGAN), a private sector-driven extension programme and young knowledgeable farmers achieved this by introducing organic farming using SRI, which is being introduced under the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP).
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The report is now available for the Benin West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) first SRI training held by host organization PROCAD on Nov. 12-14, 2014. The initiative is designed to mainstream SRI in the important Ouémé River Valley in the southern part of the country.
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Over the course of the next few years future trainings of trainers and relay trainings will extend SRI to an estimated 5,000 farmers in the southern Benin. (For more information, check the SRI-WAAPP website)
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After a lull in activities around SRI (Systems of Rice Intensification), two new SRI projects were launched recently in Mwea involving applied research, comprising within it two-sub-projects; (i) Scientific evaluation of labour demands under SRI, and (ii) Scientific assessment of impacts of SRI on weeds.
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Projects are implemented as a collaboration between Water Research and Resource Center at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology-JKUAT and MIAD-NIB and are supported by the African Institute for Capacity and Development (AICAD)
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Face à la concurrence du riz importé d’Asie, et à une demande croissante, les producteurs burkinabè s’organisent pour inverser la tendance...
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Summary of some of the French text: .... the Interprofessional Rice Committee - Burkina (IRC-B) and the National Institute of Environment and Agricultural Research (INERA) are helping producers to increase their yields and diversify the rice varieties. INERA is also promoting SRI, which brings down production costs-- particularly through reducing seed and chemical fertilizer inputs. The introduction of SRI could in the long term lead to reduced rice imports and an increase in the per hectare yield of 20%.
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Un sistema per incrementare lo sviluppo agricolo in Sierra Leone, è questo il progetto che l’ENGIM internazionale presenterà dal 14 al 20 settembre presso EXPO di Milano. “HAVE A RICE DAY - Promozione di sistemi di produzione virtuosi per uno stile di vita sano e sostenibile”. Il titolo del progetto, che l’ENGIM sta realizzando nel Paese africano con il concorso delle autorità locali e della Cornell University (Ithaca, New York).
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The NGO ENGIM presented its work on SRI being carried out with partners in Sierra Leone at the EXPO in Milan, Italy, during September.
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Peace Corps/Madagascar Volunteer William Dreyer worked alongside members of his counterpart organization, Groupe d’Etudes et Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar....
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Thank you Peace Corps for your many years of working with SRI thoughout Africa!
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The SRI-WAAPP Project conducted a training in Dakar, August 3-6, 2015, with participants from Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia. The training provided a hands-on introduction to ESRI’s ArcGIS platform, their new Survey 123 mobile data collection system, and creating outputs for communicating project activities using their interactive Story Maps feature.
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Ce groupe est réservé à tous ceux qui souhaitent faire la promotion du Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI) à Daloa
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Those working with SRI in the Ivory Coast's Daloa area have a facebook page to share their work with each other and the world!
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Video about adoption of SRI in the Irrigation, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture Development (IRLADP) Projects in Malawi.
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According to the video, the Malawi Government has adopted SRI into its national agriculture policy...
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Speaking at the opening of a three-day SRI regional conference in Monrovia, Dr. Gaoussou Traore said Liberia is now leading the rest of the 12 members of WAAPP’s SRI in its implementation and productivity levels.
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This conference, which brings together English speaking members of ECOWAS—Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, is the 5th regional SRI WAAPP conference in West Africa since the project began in January 2014.
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Ten years ago, 5 enterprises received the first SEED Awards. Since then an additional 170 innovative social and environmental start-up enterprises have been honoured with a SEED Award. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the SEED Awards this year, the time has come to let the public choose among ten of these outstanding 175 SEED Winners and decide upon which Winner they would like to honour with a Special Recognition Award.
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PLEASE DO REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR THE SRI PROJECT IN CAMBODIA... if you feel it's the best project, that is.. Every user can assign up to 10 “SEEDs”. The SEED Winner that has received most “SEEDs” by 31 July will partake in the SEED Africa Symposium on 9-10 September 2015 and will be honoured on stage by UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw.
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Abidjan - L’Unité Régionale de Coordination du projet régional “Développement et diffusion à grande échelle du Système de Riziculture Intensive en Afrique de l’Ouest” (SRI) a organisé du 16 au 19 février 2015 à Abidjan-Côte d’Ivoire, un atelier régional à l’attention des acteurs de la Filière Riz des pays impliqués dans la mise en œuvre du PPAAO/WAAPP.
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French language report on a regional meeting in Abidgan, Ivory Coast, of the 13-country WAAPP project on scaling up SRI in West Africa
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Speaking at the SRI national workshop (Feb. 12–13, 2015) with theme “Improving and Scaling-up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa”, was World Bank Co Task Team Leader to Liberia, Dr. Abimbola A. Adubi, who promised the World Bank’s continuous support for SRI, something he said has worked in several countries including some in West Africa with the same typography as Liberia.
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In order to significantly increase productivity, the CNS-RIZ has identified the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as an innovation that changes the traditional practices of rice production by allowing rice plants to better express their production potential.
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Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise est la chaîne qui vous présente toute l'actualité politique mais aussi, Sports, Société, environnement, les Émissions T...
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(SRI segment plays during minutes 20:57 to 23:45). Produced Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise, RTS channel, YouTube. This is a national TV channel report on workshop and training in Kaolack, Senegal, with additional reporting on the WAAPP’s SRI project in Kaolack, Fatick and Kaffrine, Senegal.
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(SRI segment plays during minutes 20:57 to 23:45). Produced Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise, RTS channel, YouTube. This is a national TV channel report on workshop and training in Kaolack, Senegal, with additional reporting on the WAAPP’s SRI project in Kaolack, Fatick and Kaffrine, Senegal.
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Check the latest news listed on this website that records the activities of the regional SRI project of the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP)..
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See the "about page" at http://sriwestafrica.org/about to learn more about the project described in this website, which aims to increase rice production in 13 West African countries by introducing, adapting and scaling up SRI. SRI-Rice provides technical support for this 3-year World Bank-financed project by the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP).
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