Exploring the Impact of Alternate Wetting and Drying and the System of Rice Intensification on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Review of Rice Cultivation Practices

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A new article in Agronomy shows that there doesn’t need to be a trade-off between food security and climate change mitigation. A review of field studies found that SRI is associated with both reduced GHG emissions and higher yield compared with conventional flooded rice farming. The authors, James Dahlgreen and Adam Parr, found that the mean reduction […]

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability-II

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The system of rice intensification, developed some four decades ago in Madagascar, started receiving international attention only after 2002. As SRI methods have repeatedly been found to evoke more productive and robust rice phenotypes from given genotypes, its use has spread, and the methodology has now been validated in >60 countries. During this process, the […]

LE COUPLAGE DE L’APPROCHE SMART-VALLEYS ET SRI

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Le Smart-valleys est une approche de dévelop- pement de bas-fonds pour des systèmes de pro- duction rizicole en Afrique sub-saharienne, ba- sée sur une démarche participative, durable et à faible coût. Elle a été développée par le Centre du riz pour l’Afrique (AfricaRice) et ses partenaires de recherche, en 1997 et 2001 au Ghana et […]