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Happy New Year! Here's a recap of what SRI-Rice at Cornell found and either linked to or uploaded during 2017! We linked to (among others) 275 press/blogs/website articles; 130+ research articles/theses; 68 videos; and 39 PowerPoints. We have also uploaded project documents and other material from numerous countries to help our SRI colleagues share their successes. You can find the 2017 compilation along with info from the past several decades in the SRI online library. 
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[This article has been made open-access by SRI-Rice] "The ideas and methods of the system of rice intensification which is improving irrigated rice production are now being extended/adapted to many other crops: wheat, maize, finger millet, sugarcane, tef, mustard, legumes, vegetables, and even spices. Promoting better root growth and enhancing the soil’s fertility with organic materials are being found effective means for raising the yields of many crop plants with less water, less fertilizer, reduced seeds, fewer agrochemicals, and greater climate resilience. In this article, we review what is becoming known about various farmer-centred innovations for agroecological crop management that can contribute to agricultural sustainability. These changes represent the emerging system of crop intensification, which is being increasingly applied in Asian, African, and Latin American countries.
SRI-Rice's insight:
• Adhikari, Prabhakar, et al. 2017. System of crop intensification for more productive, resource-conserving, climate-resilient, and sustainable agriculture: experience with diverse crops in varying agroecologies. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (Online first Nov. 20, 2017) 1-28.
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New Delhi, Aug 31 - The system of root intensification (SRI) has helped farmers increase significantly yield of mustard, experts said today, claiming that extensive use of the technique could bring down the country's growing edible oil import bill.
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"As climate and other conditions constrain agriculture, sustainable food systems will need to evolve, producing to the extent possible more output with less inputs. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is an agroecologically based methodology for crop management that raises yields by reducing rather than increasing inputs. This article explains with scientific justifications how it is possible to produce more food with less seed (lower plant density), less water, less fertilizer and agrochemicals, and often less labor. Lowering costs raises farmers’ incomes by more than their production increases. With SRI, reductions are made also in climate-change impacts and greenhouse gas emissions."
SRI-Rice's insight:
Norman Uphoff. (2017). SRI: An agroecological strategy to meet multiple objectives with reduced reliance on inputs. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: Vol. 41, Agroecology: building an ecological knowledge-base for food system sustainability, pp. 825-854. doi: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1334738
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Norman Uphoff is the Senior Advisor for the SRI International Network and Resources Center (SRI-Rice), a program at Cornell University engaged with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), which is a climate-smart, yield-increasing agriculture methodology that is being utilized by more than 10 million smallholder farms in over 55 countries. ..."The ideas and practices that constituted our modern agriculture in the latter half of the 20th century will not, I am afraid, serve us equally well in this 21st century, which has very different and changing economic, social, institutional and environmental conditions. I see SRI and SCI as pointing the way to what could be characterized as a ‘post-modern agriculture,’ which is a needed advance beyond our present knowledge and practices. These ideas and methods are still evolving, but innovation is no longer coming just from scientific institutions and universities, but also from civil society and farmers themselves. This is both an exciting and a necessary shift in strategy."
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Here's the complete listing of all of the online material on SRI that we (SRI-Rice) found on our daily information quests during 2016. (News, research, videos, powerpoints, etc.) Click on the link and you will be surprised how much is out there!!
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Transforming the way the world’s largest food crop is grown has become Cornell University professor Norman Uphoff’s lifework, but success means convincing others it’s better than industrial agriculture.
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During 2015 and 2016, Buddhist Global Relief partnered with Oxfam America in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia to increase the productivity of vegetable crops (tomato and onion) by teaching farmers the System of Crop Intensification (SCI). SCI adapts SRI principles to crops other than rice resulting in increased productivity through the the use of efficient, climate-smart techniques.
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Welcome to SRI-Rice Online!
SRI-Rice's insight:
Haven't been to the SRI-Rice website recently? The SRI-Rice website (http://sririce.org) has video collections and field manuals in several languages, pages for individual countries, access to the SRI Research Network and database, and links to various social media platforms. Write to us if you can't find what you need! sririce@cornell.edu
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"At a time when the centre is mulling whether to allow transgenic technology to improve yields of mustard, farmers from several states have claimed superior yields by growing traditional mustard varieties using a new method of cultivation. Known as system of mustard intensification (SMI), the technology which essentially advocates a radically different package of practices, has earlier been successfully tried in crops like rice and wheat. The technology, which is also known as system of root intensification (SRI), involves planting saplings at a wide distance from each other, using less water and seeds and creating soil conditions which are aerated and microbe-friendly.
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"...The principals of SRI have been applied to other crops, like teff and wheat, under the umbrella term SCI – System of Crop Intensification. The founders of Lotus Foods suggested we look into how SCI might work with fonio. We learned enough to convince us that using SCI techniques will change the equation for smallholder fonio growers in the Sahel. We have just begun the process of exploring the adaptation of those techniques to fonio. We’ve connected some of the leading experts in SCI’s introduction to West Africa with our agronomist partners at SOS Sahel, the NGO that’s helping us establish the world’s first beneficial, commercial scale and grade fonio supply chain. We’ll explain more in future posts about how SCI can address some of the biggest issues we face in making the most of fonio’s potential. Stay tuned!"
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In distressed situations of drought and floods, tribal farmers of southern Bundelkhand region illustrated that System of Crop Intensification, an agro ecological method, helps build climate resilience. The socio-technical approach based on building upon the traditional knowledge and innovative capacities of farmers, proved to be effective in building climate resilient cropping systems.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Seema Ravandale, Vinod Niranjan, and Debashish Sen. 2017. Building climate resilience. LEISA INDIA 19(2): 5-9. June.
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Sunil Kumar Ghadei (28), a management graduate is among the many young professionals who are slowly but surely making their way into the rural fields of Odisha with the commitment to bring in a change in the agri scenario of the State. ..
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Gerald Aruna, ENGIM Internazionale, has modified the traditional planting method for the local krain krain leafy vegetable (Cochorus Olitorius) to use System of Crop Intensification (SCI) methods. Called "SKKI" (System of Krain Krain Intensification), the modifications use: Less seeds, more organic matter, wide spacing between plants, transplanting of young seedlings between 8 to 15 days old, and overhead shading. The crop is harvested twice, the first time by cutting / pruning branches of the plant at a point which leaves at least two other branches for fast re-growth and for collecting seeds at the end, so farmers can replant with their own seed. Weeding / earthing up / soil aeration of the crop is done every 7 days. This promotes robust root and plant growth and results in robust leaves as well as very big pods of seeds at the end to be harvested.
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A group of enterprising farmers in Haveri district, Karnataka, who have adopted the unique method of cultivation called 'Guli Vidhana (pit system)', have succeeded in doubling the yield of finger millet or ragi crop from one acre of land to 18-20 quintals. Some farmers have been inspired by System of Rice Intensification to use Guli Vidhana, which is similar to SRI [though the technique predates SRI].
SRI-Rice's insight:
Principles of the System of Rice Intensification, when adapted for crops other than rice, are called the System of Crop Intensification (SCI).
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We hope you'll enjoy the 2017 System of Rice Intensification (SRI) collection. As our listings go back several decades, we are happy to help you to use our online library or research databases if you get lost! Just write to: sririce@cornell.edu