How did COP28 address agriculture and climate change? The headline outcome of COP28 was the agreement to phase down fossil fuel usage – a significant step forward in global climate policy. Equally noteworthy, however, was the attention given to sustainable agriculture’s role in climate change mitigation and the need for its adaptation to a changing […]
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, 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 […]