FAO Regional Rice Initiative Supports Sustainable Production
1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations
for a world without hunger
2. Designed to:
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Contribute to FAO’
Strategic Objective 2
(SO2) “Make
agriculture, forestry and
fisheries more
productive and
sustainable” as a pilot
project in 2013Focus countries:
Indonesia, Lao PDR,
Philippines
3. Supports:
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Rice farmers and
producers in applying
sustainable rice
production practices to
rice ecosystems and
landscapes in order to
increase rice production
and improve resource
use efficiency, and
ultimately improve food
and nutrition security
4. Focusing on:
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Goods and services produced by and available
from rice ecosystems and landscapes
5.
6. Capacity building
on Sustainable
Intensification of
Rice Production
through Farmers
Field Schools
7. Save and Grow FFS: Activities
and Results from Mindanao,
Philippines (Wet Season, 2013)
8. RRI-Phase IIRRI-Phase II (2014-15)(2014-15)
Rice-fish
Rice-duck
Trees outside
forest
Rice-
vegetables
Climate
change
adaptation
Cultures/
heritages
Policy and
strategy
formulation and
implementation
•National rice
strategy/policy
•Farm input
policy/reduce
subsidies
•Code of Conduct
Pesticide
Management,
Convention on
Biological
Diversity, Ramsar
Wetlands
Convention
Evidence
Knowledge
•- Inputs
•+ Yield
•+ Income
•+ rice
ecosystem
goods &
services
Producing
more and
better with
less inputs
in a
sustainable
way
Notes de l'éditeur
The Regional Rice Initiative started as a pilot project of FAO’s new Strategic Objective 2, “Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable.”
We have supported three focus countries since 2013, namely, Indonesia, Lao PDR and the Philippines.
What we do is to support rice farmers and producers in applying sustainable rice production practices, such as Save and Grow, to rice ecosystems and landscapes and to help them increase rice production and improve resource use efficiency, and ultimately improve food and nutrition security.
To do so, we take advantage and make use of the goods and services produced by and available from rice ecosystems and landscapes.
For example, in rice fields in Asia, we can find more than 100 aquatic organisms that play a significant role in food and nutrition security of local people.
You can find not only fish, but also eels, snails, shrimps, frogs, crabs, turtles, and so forth.
To overcome the weakness, under the Phase II, all the approaches promoted by different components or sub-components are integrated in the overarching Save and Grow paradigm through integrated Farmers Field Schools in order to maximize the impact of synergies of the Initiative.
The Regional Rice Initiative also informs policy processes, especially the (re)formulation and implementation of national rice strategies or policies with due consideration to the multiple goods and services provided by rice production systems and landscapes.