2019 NEWS AND LATEST RESOURCES
- Latest Research
- New Publication Links
- New Uploads (Our site)
News from other years:
[2013-2019 additions are also available by MONTH]
In the Press - 2019
January 2019
- Green touch to rice production [Farmers in
WWF pilot project in Long Langai village, Ba’Kelalan highlands of Sarawak, harvest local organic SRI rice (Adan variety)]
January 22, 2019, The Star Online (Sarawak, Malaysia)
(Similar article Jan. 19 in The Star Online: Making rice production more environment-friendly - Cambodia prepared for EU rice tariffs: Ministry [Brief mention of SRI by vice president of Amru Rice Cambodia, who notes SRI as one of the things that might boost competetiveness of rice exports.]
January 21, 2019, Khmer Times (Cambodia)
- Ditjen PSP Kementan sebut petani mulai cerdas dan hemat kelola air [The Directorate General of Agricultural Infrastructure and Facilities (PSP) of the Ministry of Agriculture, highlights SRI with Jajar Legowo as an example of innovations they are recommending to optimize agricultural water use.]
January 17, 2019, BreakingNews (Indonesia) - Liberian rice company closing gap on imported rice [CHAP promotes rice self-sufficency and SRI for Liberia]
January 15, 2019, Front Page Africa (Liberia) - Gaston Dossouhoui à propos des perspectives de l’économie béninoise:Le Bénin, une puissance agricole à l’horizon 2021 [12 ha will be planted to SRI in GIZ-financed Prosol project.]
December 20, 2018, Le Matinal (Benin) (accessed January 13, 2019) - Organic farming brings huge returns [Harvest of organic SRI in Ba Kelalan is part of pilot project by WWF-Malaysia through a RM1.5-million funding by CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad in a three-year partnership, beginning in 2017.]
January 9, 2019, Borneo Post (Sarawak, Malaysia) [Simliar article in Dayak Daily] - Scientific farming to be promoted to increase output [Cooperative farms will be encouraged to introduce advanced farming methods, including the system of rice intensification, [..and other activities]
January 6, 2019, KCNA Watch (Source: Pyongyang Times) (North Korea) - WWF Malaysia bersama media lawat Ba' Kelalan, Cabaran Eko HBH 7-12 Jan [Media event for SRI in WWF project in Sarawak, January 7-12, 2019]
January 6, 2019, Utusan Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia) - Reducing carbon emission by altering the method of farming [Info from the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare lists SRI as number 1 of 8 suggested soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
January 2, 2019, The Open View (India) - Binh Thuân développe des modèles d’agriculture intelligente face au climat [Update on the NGO SNV's SRI projects realted to women and climate change in Vietnam.]
December 28, 2018, Le Courrier du Vietnam (Vietnam) [accessed January 4, 2019]
Blog Posts and Website Articles - 2019
- Prudhviraj, CA Bhanu. 2019. Whether loan waiver to farmers is one stop solution for eliminating agrarian distress in India? Taxguru website. January 18. [Loan waivers should be a last resort. SRI among the items cited a needs of the hour that related to long term solutions rather than short term benefits.]
- Green, Duncan. 2019. Book review: Can we know better? by Robert Chambers. Oxfam blogs. January 11. [Review says...the aid community ..." rejects heresies for far too long, until the evidence becomes overwhelming (e.g. System of Rice Intensification").
- 2019. Making rice production more environment-friendly. WWF Malaysia website. January 8.
- 2019. Vale Indonesia tetap survive kelola tambang selama 5 dekade. CNBC Indonesia website. January 11. [Article about PT Vale Indonesia, which notes their CSR work promoting organic SRI in Indoensia, including national organic certification for their rice.]
- 2019. Lotus Foods urges consumers to “Do The Rice Thing™”. Specialty Food Association website. January 8.
- Ghosh, Sahana. 2019. Eyes in the sky: Space technology aiding Meghalaya to expand boro rice cultivation. Mongabay website. January 7. [Meghalaya state in India wants to increase boro rice, which is, according to the article, is well-suited for SRI.]
- 201?. The Farmers’ Clubs Programme. Humana People to People (Laos) website. [94 farmers got seeds and learned to grow SRI rice and they planted 94 Rai (15.66 Ha). [Ban Phamueng and Ban Phadai, Bolikhan District, and has enrolled 1,000 participating farmers for 2 years. (note: not sure which years)]
- Ariyani, Desi. 2019. Penerapan Sistem tanam SRI (System of Rice Intensification) Organik pada padi organik. Cybex website. January 6. [Cyberextension instructional material in Indonesian.]
- Basia, Mathet, and Lydia Boclig. 2019. Towards rice sufficiency, System of Rice Intensification (SRI) trial farm in Lamag. Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera website. January 5. [Lamag Farmers’ Association (LFA) in barangay Lamag of Quirino, Ilocos Sur, Philippines are experimenting with SRI with help from Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC).]
- 2018. Initiatives to reduce carbon emissions from farming. GKToday, Current Affairs website. January 3. [Info from the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare lists SRI as one of suggested soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
- Priya, Annu. 2019. By altering the method of farming, reducing carbon emission. Latest Indian Story blog. January 2. [Info from the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare lists SRI as one of suggested soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - acquired during 2019
(listed in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
- Red dot (•) indicates article is freely available; * asterisk is SCI (other than rice)
- • Efendi, et al. 2015. Morpho-agronomic performances of rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces under organic cultivation of SRI method. International Journal of Agricultural Research 10(2): 74-82. doi:10.3923/ijar.2015.74.82 [accessed January 19, 2019]
- • Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, et al. 2019. Potential of climate-smart agriculture in reducing women farmers’ drudgery in high climatic risk areas. Climatic Change (online first) pp 1–14. doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2350-8
- *• Divya, V. et al. 2015. Growth, yield attributes, yield and economics of sesame (Sesmum indicum L.) as influenced by System of Crop Intensification (SCI) practices. Andhra Pradesh Journal of Agricultural Sciences 1(2): 62-66. [January 16, 2019]
- • Isnawan, Bambang Heri, et al. 2018. A study of physiology of rice varieties with intermittent irrigation and conventional method on System of Rice Intensification. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANRes 2018), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. [January 16, 2019]
- • Khadka, Ram B., and Norman Uphoff. 2019. Effects of Trichoderma seedling treatment with System of Rice Intensification management and with conventional management of transplanted rice. PeerJ: e5877. doi:10.7717/peerj.5877 [January 15, 2019]
- Lee, Yun-ho, et al. 2018. On-farm study of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) of rainfed lowland in southern Cambodia (캄보디아 남부 천수답지역의 벼 집약관리재배 시스템(SRI)에 대한 현장 연구). Korea International Agricultural Development Association 30(4): 285-291 [January 15, 2019]
- Dastan, Salman. 2012. Evaluation on agronomic and eco-physiological indices of lowland rice genotypes under modified agronomical systems. PhD dissertation, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. [abstract uploaded January 5, 2019]
- • Dastan, Salman, et al. 2016. CO2 emission and global warming potential (GWP) of energy consumption in paddy field production systems. Būm/shināsī-i kishāvarzī 6(4): 823-835. [accessed January 5, 2019]
- • Minithra, R., and D. Suresh Kumar. 2019. An economic analysis of technology adoption coupled with conjunctive use of ground water in tank command area. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology 29(1): 1-7. doi:10.9734/AJAEES/2019/45946 [accessed January 5, 2019]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media) (2019)
(see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads below for new material on our site).
- Uphoff, N., and A. K. Thakur. 2019. An agroecological strategy for adapting to climate change: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI). In: Sarkar A., Sensarma S., vanLoon G. (eds) Sustainable Solutions for Food Security. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77878-5_12 [accessed January 19, 2019]
- Tannirkulam, Ajay, Suraj R. Nair, and Divya Mary. 2017. Doubling farmers' incomes: Strategies and recommendations for Tamil Nadu. NABARD website. This study about Tamil Nadu, India, was commissioned by NABARD and carried out by IFMR LEAD.
Recent Documents Uploaded on our Website (2019) (Includes new pages added to the SRI-Rice website)
- [Web pages updated during January: 2018, 2019, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, month index, December 2018, 2019 staff news, 2018 staff news, other crops, other SCI, videos, Benin, Cambodia, DPRK, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Liberia, Nepal, Nepal archives, Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam.]
- Bimba, Robert. 2018. CHAP Newsletter on 7th CARD GM and CARD High-Level Meeting held in Tokyo, Japan, October 2-5, 2018. October 8. (4p pdf) [abstract uploaded January 5, 2019]
- Bimba, Robert. 2018. Japanese Government Rice Grant impact in Liberia continues on after the close of the project implemented by CHAP. October 8. (3p. pdf)
- [abstract uploaded January 5, 2019] Dastan, Salman. 2012. Evaluation on agronomic and eco-physiological indices of lowland rice genotypes under modified agronomical systems. PhD dissertation, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. [abstract uploaded January 5, 2019]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. Monthly additions to the SRI-Rice website. New pages on the SRI-Rice website. [uploaded monthly]
Videos / Audiofiles - 2019 acquisitions (and Dec. 2018) (either uploaded by SRI-Rice OR linked to from our website)
- Video: 2018 (December 28). LNTV TV clip supporting CHAP's rice program. 1:25 min. Robert Bimba facebook page. [LNTV TV clip from Liberia featuring CHAP SRI farmers requesting goverment help.]
- Video: 2018 (December 28). LNTV TV clip: Robert Bimba describing CHAP's rice program. 1:25 min. Robert Bimba facebook page. [LNTV TV clip from Liberia featuring Robert Bimba requesting goverment and donor help for CHAP.]
- Video: 2018 (December 17). Next frontier: Modern rice farming. 9:21 min. KTN News Kenya channel, YouTube. [KTN News channel from Kenya talking about SRI and its place in Kenyan agriculture.] [accessed January 3, 2019]
- Video: 2018 (December 17). Systemic Rice Intensification (SRI). 0:51 min. Agriquize 2k18 IG channel, YouTube.>[Basic SRI practices explained in one minute.]
- Video: 2018 (November 16). SRI Wheat Cultivation: 4 ਕਿੱਲੋ ਬੀਜ ਨਾਲ 1 ਏਕੜ ਕਣਕ ਏਦਾਂ ਬੀਜੋ. 18:44 min. Naturalfarming KVM channel, YouTube. [Indian language video on SWI, The System of Wheat Intensification.] [accessed December 16, 2018]
- Video: 2018 (December 12). How do you feed a world dealing with climate change? | The Question. 4:00 min. CBC website. [Video by the Canadian Broadcasting Company about the pros and cons of promoting SRI globally, with focus on West Africa]
- Video: 2018 (December 7). System of Rice Intensification transforming lives in Tanzania. 11:42 min. Kilimo Biashara channel, YouTube. [Story about an FAO project promoting SRI in several districts of the Morogoro in Tanzania]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - 2018 acquisitions
- Bimba, Robert. 2019. 1901 - Community of Hope Agriculture Project Update to Liberia MOA 2019. 19 slides. Presentation at the Ministry of Agriculture, Liberia, January 11. [uploaded January 17, 2019]
- Presentations at the The Workshop to Enhance Cooperation and Sharing among SRI National Networks in Asia, held October 18-19, 2018, at the Leverage Business Hotel-Skudai, Malaysia [uploaded Dec. 2018]
- Uprety, Rajendra, Nepal SRI Network, 9 slides
- Eiji, Yamaji, Introduction of J-SRI : Japan Association of the System of Rice Intensification, 13 slides
- Arif, Chusnul, Budi Indra Setiawan, and Ahmad Jatika, SRI Networks in Indonesia - Report of INA-SRI Activities, 14 slides
- Hameed, Khidhir Abbas, Iraq - Initiatives to Spread the SRI in the Middle East and Central Asia, 20 slides
- Isahak, Anizan, SRI Network in Malaysia: The SRI-Mas experience, 6 slides
- Sen, Debashish, National Consortium of SRI (NCS) India, 10 slides
- Phu, Hoang Van, Vietnam SRI Network, 21 slides
- Verzola, Roberto, SRI Pilipinas: Asia SRI Network Ideas, 45 slides
- Moreira, Diddier, and Kelly Witkowski, SRI en las Americas, 8 slides
- Photakoun, Viengxay, SRI-LMB in Laos, 9 slides
- Konwar, Kakali, et al. 2018. Increasing the productivity of rapeseed through the practice of System of Rapeseed Intensification. 19 slides. Presented at the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India, December 13-16, 2018. [uploaded December 17, 2018]
- Thiyagarajan, T. M. 2018. Understanding the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) for Sustainable Rice Production. 53 slides. Presentation at The International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India, December 13-16, 2018. [uploaded December 15, 2018]
- Presentations (Day 1) at the SRI-LMB Regional Workshop for the Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and
Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower
Mekong River Basin (SRI
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LMB), held November 1-21, 2018 at the Notvotel Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand (pdfs): [accessed December 15, 2018]
- Kassam, Amir. Mobilizing greater crop and land potentials: Integrating System of Rice Intensification with Conservation Agriculture. 34 slides.
- Mishra, Abha. Learning with the System of Rice Intensification for Food Security and Climate-Smart Agriculture. 52 slides.
- Mishra, Abha. SRI-LMB Project Achievement and the "Way Forward".
- Ty, Sopheavy. Key Policy Options for th SRI-LMB Countries. 13 slides.
- Isahak, Anizan, Norida Mazlan and Anni Mitin. Key Findings of the Evaluation of the SRI-MB Project. 27 slides.
- Duong, Nguyen Quy. Project Achievements - Key Learning and Recommendations. 42 slides.
- Photakoun, Viengxay, and Kongsy Xayavong. SRI-LMB in Laos. 28 slides.
- Parithamma, Thongsa. SRI Learning from Uttaradit Province, Thailand. 16 slides.
- SRI in Surin Province. 48 slides.
- Kaewkamthomg, Yuttakarn. Reflection on SRI-LMB Experience in Thailand. 15 slides. - Presentations (Day 2) at the SRI-LMB Regional Workshop for the Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin (SRI - LMB), held November 1-21, 2018 at the Notvotel Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand (pdfs) [There are 11 presentations in this group] [accessed December 15, 2018]
* indicates SCI, which is adaptation of SRI principles to other crops.
