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!)

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Project: System of Rice Intensification (SRI)  Company: Nile Interconsults Uganda Ltd Country: Uganda System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a proven alternative rice growing method that enables rice farmers to cope with the adverse effects of climate change and actively participate in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. SRI relies on intermittent irrigation and draining of water to […]

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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.]

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TANZANIA – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through funding from the European Union (EU), has embarked on training farmers on the system of rice intensification technology (SRI) in an effort to improve their yields and incomes. IPP Media reports that FAO has earmarked farmers in the Morogoro and Mbeya regions by equipping them […]

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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)]

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Small rice producers were trained on Friday in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the intensive rice farming system, an agro-ecological method allowing farmers to produce more rice using less seeds and water, and less purchased inputs.  “ We trained rice farmers in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an agro-ecological method that allows […]

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