SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION- TRAINING MANUAL FOR EXTENSION STAFF AND FARMERS
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COUNTRIES
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Scholarship opportunities for online courses in Wageningen University & Research (deadline March 30, 2023)
- Scholarship lists– Africa: Scholarshipset; OFA; General: Terra Viva Fellowship/Scholarship; Ag Scholarships; FAO internships
- Online digital content creation specialist, Peace Corp Response. Position for Togo NGO working with SRI and related projects. (Starts Aug. 6, 2023)
- Employment: See FAO jobs, DevnetJobs for lists, among other organizations
OPPORTUNITIES
[Funding/Grants/Awards]
- Grant proposals for the Soil Fertility programme: Sahel/West Africa or East and Central Africa. Apply by March 31, 2023. Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Organic Farming and Agriculture Grants in Africa. Instrumentl website
- Lists of agriculture and development funds: Terra Viva grant database; Funds for NGOs; Advance Africa,
· [Jobs, Education and Other Opportunities]
- Scholarship opportunities for online courses in Wageningen University & Research (deadline March 30, 2023)
- Scholarship lists– Africa: Scholarshipset; OFA; General: Terra Viva Fellowship/Scholarship; Ag Scholarships; FAO internships:
- Online digital content creation specialist, Peace Corp Response. Position for Togo NGO working with SRI and related projects. (Starts Aug. 6, 2023)
- Employment: See FAO jobs, DevnetJobs for lists, among other organizations
- Community of Practice: Join FAO’s Family Farming & Agroecology CoP
OUR DATABASE
THE SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION: MEMOIRES OF AN INNOVATION
Visit SRI Memoires Website: https://www.srimemoires.com
RECENT NEWS
- Growing Green: Climate-Smart Agriculture ,Revolutionizing Farming for a Changing World May 30, 2023
- A walk through the past and the future of Congolese rice: an interview with Ivan Godfroid. RIKOLTO website. [Rikolto (a Belgian NGO) ag value chain article that briefly notes their work with SRI and ISFM in DR Congo.] May 30, 2023
- 2023. Meet the shortlisted candidates of the Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Challenge. Global Resilience Partnership website. [SRI project by Nile Interconsults Uganda is among the shortlist. (We don’t know much about SRI in Uganda so this is interesting!) May 30, 2023
- FAO spearheads adoption of new rice production technology in Tanzania in push to raise yields and boost farmer incomes. Milling Middle East and Africa website. [FAO, with EU funding, is training farmers on SRI to improve yields and incomes in the Morogoro and Mbeya regions.] May 30, 2023
- Agriculture: des petits producteurs formés au système de riziculture intensive [GIZ-sponsored SRI training in Kinshasa in associated with the centres d’innovations vertes (CIV)] May 30, 2023
- A UFO? Assessment of System of Rice Intensification from the Agricultural Economics Perspective May 19, 2023
- Price Announcement – Organic Rice from Sri Lanka May 19, 2023
- FAO spearheads adoption of new rice production technology in Tanzania in push to raise yields and boost farmer income May 19, 2023
- Improving Rural Livelihoods in Zambia with SRI: The Inspiring Story of Henry Ngimbu. April 26, 2023
- Optimizing water use efficiency in flood irrigation systems in Uganda: A case of Doho Rice irrigation scheme (DRIS) #9423 April 26, 2023
- PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE RICE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: The Case of Tanzania April 12, 2023
About SRI-Africa
The System of Rice Intensification (Africa), Known as SRI- Africa -is agro-ecological methodology for increasing productivity of irrigated rice by changing the management of plants, soil, water and nutrients. SRI originated in Madagascar in the 1980s and is based on the cropping principles of significantly reducing plant population, improving soil conditions and irrigation methods for root and plant development, improving plant establishment methods.
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