System of crop intensification for more productive, resource-conserving, climate-resilient, and sustainable agriculture: experience with diverse crops in varying agroecologies

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ABSTRACT With continually increasing demand for food accompanied by the constraints of climate change and the availability and quality of soil and water, the world’s farmers are challenged to produce more food per hectare with less water, and with fewer agrochemical inputs if possible. The ideas and methods of the system of rice intensification which […]

SRI Global Research Network Webinar: Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

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The theme of this webinar is “Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)” Date: 9.00 – 10.30 AM (UTC-4), August 22, 2024 Speakers: Chusnul Arif (IPB University, Indonesia) will speak on “Managing Water in SRI Paddy Fields to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Maintain Yield“ James Dahlgreen (SRI-2030, UK) will […]

Chapter 24: CONTRIBUTIONS OF CIVIL-SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS

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SRI can be considered as a civil-society innovation because it originated from the work of a French priest engaged with small farmers in Madagascar rather than from a government research institution or a university. As seen in Chapter 3, the impetus for SRI’s initial spread in Madagascar came from a small non-governmental organization (NGO) that […]