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
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwAND94jB80zZG5SSF
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16% less GHH
reduction

5. Visit SRI-LMB at: http://www.sri-lmb.ait.asia/
http://www.aimspress.com/article/
10.3934/agrfood.2016.2.102/pdf
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=gu4f1JXO
T9c&feature=youtu.be