Growing Green: Climate-Smart Agriculture ,Revolutionizing Farming for a Changing World

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Climate-Smart agriculture is an approach that seeks to address the challenges of climate change while also improving agricultural productivity and livelihoods. By focusing on adaptation, mitigation, and food security, climate-smart agriculture offers a way to build more resilient and sustainable farming systems. Climate-smart agriculture is an approach to farming that seeks to address the challenges […]

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.]

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Food security in the DRC affects 26% of the population. According to the IPC 2022 report, “the DRC has the largest number of people suffering from food insecurity in the world.” What role does the rice value chain play in the fight against food insecurity? Rice consumption has evolved considerably. 50 years ago, rice was […]

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 […]