Sustainable Rice Farming: Unlocking Nigeria’s Potential with System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

SRI AFRICA October 1, 2025 0 Comments

Traditional rice-growing practices in Nigeria contribute to water scarcity and greenhouse gas emissions. Continuous flooding of rice fields leads to inefficient water use and exacerbates environmental problems, including methane emissions and climate change. There is an urgent need to switch from these conventional practices to more sustainable alternatives, such as the System of Rice Intensification […]

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Kyari pushes climate-smart agriculture to drive food security, growth

SRI AFRICA September 29, 2025 0 Comments

Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, has called for greater adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices, saying they hold the key to boosting food production, creating jobs and accelerating economic growth across Africa. Speaking at a COP30 side event during the Africa Food Systems Summit 2025 in Dakar, Senegal, Kyari said Nigeria’s agricultural transformation […]

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Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification in 13 West African Countries

SRI AFRICA August 26, 2025 0 Comments

RICOWAS, the largest SRI scaling-up project to date, will be implemented over four years in 13 West African countries, starting in January 2023. RICOWAS can be considered a follow-on project to the SRI-WAAPP project, which was implemented from 2014-2016 and reached 50,048 farmers growing rice using the SRI method at 1,088 sites on 13,944 hectares […]

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