Global Science Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture
1. Innovation and Learning around the
System of Rice Intensification (SRI) for
Food Security and Climate-Smart
Agriculture
MISHRA ABHA1, KETELAAR JOHANNES2, UPHOFF NORMAN3
1 AC I S A I , A S I A N I N S T I T U T E O F T EC H N O LO GY, PAT HU M T HA N I , T H A I LA N D ; 2 FAO - I P M P R O G R A M M E, FAO
R A P, B A N G KO K 1 0 2 0 0 , T H A I LA N D ; 3 S R I - R I C E , C O R N E LL U N I V ERS I T Y, I T HAC A , N Y, U S A .
The 4th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (The 4th GSC-CSA)
28th - 30th November, 2017, Johannesburg, South Africa
2. Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Learning and Innovation around
the System of Rice Intensification in Lower Mekong River Basin (SRI-LMB)
29-01-2018
http://www.sri-lmb.ait.asia/
Royal University of
Agriculture
National University
of Laos
Hanoi University of
Agriculture
Rajabhat University
3. 29-01-2018
Key Learnings
1. Improved livelihoods
(productivity and
profitability, labour
productivity)
2. Resource use efficiency
(water productivity,
fertilizer use efficiency. Total
energy input)
3. Climate change mitigation
(GHG mitigation)
Coverage
Covers 11 provinces and 33
rainfed districts
> 170 farmers’
participatory action
research sites
> 400 fields experiments
using SRI ideas
> 11,000 farmers directly
involved
> 15 institutions involved
SRI: Transplanting younger and fewer seedlings/hill or direct seeding with low seed rate; Maintaining
wider spacing; Avoiding continuous soil saturation; Applying compost as much as possible
4. SRI: Develop climate-smart practices, address food
security and achieve sustainable development goal
in a more complementary way
SRI has demonstrated that it is a high yielding, climate-
smart, low cost practices with higher factor productivity
(land, labors, water, chemicals, and seed).
SRI can lead the way to poverty reduction and can make
smallholder farming attractive, efficient, and smart
With SRI, the economic productivity is higher in rainfed
areas compared to irrigated areas
Collective action is needed by farmers' organization to
capture the economies of scale and to commercialize the
rainfed agriculture and sustain the benefits
National and international actors including private
sectors’ support would be needed to support this
development
70 %
66 %66 %
50 %46 %
30 %
SRI-LMB
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16% less GHH
reduction