System of Rice Intensification

Domestic meeting of the Japanese SRI Group, J-SRI. Anyone interested in SRI can participate in the meeting free of charge.
Date: April 4, 2013; 19:30 pm
Venue: C221, Forum (Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, Netherlands)
Organizations: OtherWise, ILEIA, Boerengroep, AME Foundation
Speakers: K.S.V. Prasad (Executive director AME Foundation and editor LEISA India magazine), Harro Maat (Researcher Wageningen University) and Steve Sherwood (co-founder Groundswell International)
More Information: See Grassroots Science website

This conference will facilitate sharing of SRI knowledge and experiences, particularly from the SRI researchers and practitioners in Malaysia, and discussion of issues involved in positioning of SRI as an option to enhance rice security and food safety in the country.
Date: June 11-13, 2013
Venue: Orient Star Resort, Lumut, Perak, Malaysia
Primary Organizer: Universiti Putra Jaya (UPM). Co-organizers: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Southeast Asian Council for Food Security and Fair Trade (SEACON), Padiberas Nasional Berhad (BERNAS), FELCRA
More Information: See brochure or contact: 2nd SRI 2013 Secretariat, Jabatan Sains Tanaman, Fakulti Pertanian, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Email: s_ahmad@putra.upm.edu.my

Date: November 15, 2012
Venues (for video-conference):
     Malawi: Lilongwe (WB Office, Lilongwe-2), 2:00pm - 5:00pm
     Kenya: Nairobi (WB Office, Nairobi-1), 3:00pm - 6:00pm
     India: Chennai (IAMWARM), 5:30pm - 8:30pm
     USA: Cornell University and Washington DC (WB HQ MC C2-123), 7:00 am - 10:00 am
Sponsors/Organizers: World Bank • World Bank Institute • Tokyo Development Learning Center
To view the session: http://streaming.jointokyo.org/viewerportal/vmc/home.do
To raise questions to raise: http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/csa/
More information: Mei Xie, mxie@worldbank.org; Yu Huan, yhuan@worldbank.org, +1-202-458-8452, World Bank Institute, or see the flyer

This workshop had SRI content. Objectives include exploring means of optimizing the cost of rice production towards sustainable food security and re-emphasizing the critical role of IPM in sustainable rice production.
Date: September 12-13, 2012; 18:00-20:00
Venue: Dewan Tun Abdullah Salleh, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor
Organizers: SRI-Mas (The Malaysian Network on System of Rice Intensification), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Southeast Asian Council for Food Security and Fair Trade (SEACON), Padiberas Nasional Berhad (BERNAS)
More Information: SRI-Mas IPM Workshop Secretariat - +6 03 8921 5391 Fax: +6 03 8921 5490 - Presentations and additional information available on the SRI-Mas website.

The objectives for this workshop are: i) to bring together for the first time important rice program implementers and decision-makers from all ECOWAS countries, ii) to discuss SRI experience and progress in West Africa, and iii) to develop a roadmap for creating a regional SRI network. The goal is to integrate SRI fully within the research and extension programs of all ECOWAS countries by 2015. (see workshop feature)
Date: July 26-27, 2012
Venue: Palm Beach Hotel, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Organizers: NCOS-Rice (WAAPP Mali) supported by the CNOS of Burkina Faso, CORAF/WECARD and SRI-Rice Centre at Cornell University
More Information: Dr. Gaoussou Traoré: Email: gtraore9@yahoo.fr

Sponsors: Ministerio del Agricultura, Programa de Apoyo Local a la Modernización Agropecuaria en Cuba (PALMA), European Union, Fondo para el Logro de los ODM (MDGIF)
Venue: La Habana, Cuba
Date: 12-16 Diciembre 2011

The objectives of the workshop were to:
i) Bring to together for the first time SRI practitioners and researchers from Latin American Countries and the Caribbean,
ii) Assess the achievements and opportunities of the System of Rice Intensification in Latin America and the Caribbean;
iii) Brainstorm potentials and constraints for improving rice production practices in the region; and,
iv) Develop a plan for the next steps in advancing SRI in Latin America. Twenty-seven participants from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and the USA met to assess achievements of SRI in the region to date.

(see report, presentations and agenda)

Organized by: SRI-Rice (Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development) and EARTH University with funding from Jim Carrey's Better U Foundation
Date: October 30 - November 1, 2011
Venue: EARTH University campus, Costa Rica

The 3rd International Rice Congress is a quadrennial event which coincided with an observance of IRRI’s 50th anniversary. A number of oral presentations and posters about SRI were presented during the Congress, and Norman Uphoff discussed SRI while participating in the opening plenary panel. Oxfam America in Vietnam sponsored a pre-conference SRI Day at the Hanoi Hotel on November 8 as well as field trip on November 13. The SRI-Day presentations are also available on the SRI-Rice website.

Date: November 9-12, 2010 (see presentations and agenda)
Venue: National Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam

>>> PRE-CONGRESS ‘SRI DAY’ at the 3rd International Rice Congress

Date: Monday, November 8, 2010 (see presentations and agenda)
Venue: Hanoi Hotel, D8 Giang Vo, Ba Dinh, Ha Noi

Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sponsored by: Oxfam America, Africare and WWF
Time: Lunch Briefing: 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Venue: Ronald Reagan Building, Rotunda, North Tower; 8th Floor
1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20004

Domestic meeting of the Japanese SRI Group, J-SRI. Anyone interested in SRI can participate in the meeting free of charge.
Date: Feb. 13, 2013, Dec. 15, Oct. 11, Sept. 27, July 27, April 20, 2012; 18:00-20:00
Venue: Meeting Room (Room 717), 7th floor of Faculty of Agriculture Bldg.7 A
University of Tokyo (Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo), Japan
More Information: See J-SRI website

Organized by: National Consortium on SRI (NCS)
Date: January 13, 2012
Venue: Council for Social Development, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
More Info: See page on the SRI-India site

Organized by: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Date: January 9-12, 2012
Venue: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Date: March 2, 2011
Venue: Patna, Bihar
Organised by: Jeevika Project in Patna, Bihar, India
More Information: See Colloquium report.

Date: December 20-21, 2010
Venue: ICRISAT, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India
Objectives: To identify main lessons from the decade of experiences with SRI in India.

The conference, organized for those engaged in agriculture development in Northeast India, focused on sharing among participants, particularly with regard to improvement of hill cultivation, eco-forestry, SRI and preserving the environment. The conference will include plenary sessions on important issues provided by excellent resource persons.

Date: October 6-8, 2010
Hosted by: NEICORD (North East India Committee on Relief and Development) in collaboration with the ECHO Asia Regional Office.
Venue: Barapani, Shillong - Meghalaya
For more information contact: - jtuisum2003@yahoo.com, charity@neicord.org

Date: September 21-23, 2010
Sponsor: ECHO, an international NGO
Venue: Ougadougou, Burkina Faso

SRI Presentation: Styger, Erika. 2010. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - Producing more rice with less inputs - 3 years of experience from Mali. 37 slides.