Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) has officially unveiled the Scaling Up Climate Resilience Rice Production project in West Africa, known as RICOWAS, aligning with President Bio’s vision for FEED SALONE. Arouna Rashid Kamara, the Deputy Director of SLARI, highlighted that this project, funded by the Adaptation Fund and executed by the Sahara and Sahel […]
CONTEXT: Zamfara State is impoverished due to low agricultural productivity, inadequate infrastructure, and insecurity. Research has explored System of Rice Intensification (SRI)’s agronomic benefits but not its monetary and non-monetary advantages for rural households in the State. OBJECTIVE: The study investigates the effectiveness of a best-bet SRI (BB-SRI) as a poverty alleviation strategy in Zamfara […]
Conservation Agriculture (CA) and the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) are both agroecologically-oriented production systems that support more productive, sustainable, and resource-conserving farming, with synergies arising from their respective assemblages of reinforcing agronomic methods. This review article examines the compatibility between CA and SRI, considering examples of their being utilized in complementary ways. The application […]