Immediate action must be taken to tackle the climate emergency.
SRI is a proven nature-based solution that significantly curbs methane emissions, simultaneously providing benefits for our planet, people, and prosperity.
Cutting methane emissions is the best way to slow climate change over the next 25 years
The challenges our world faces today are clear.
SRI provides an opportunity to adapt rice cultivation to work in tandem with nature providing a significant opportunity to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane, while providing numerous social and economic benefits for farmers and their families.
Rice is the staple food for over half the world's population. As populations rise, so does the demand for rice. With rice cultivation contributing between 8-12% of human-caused global greenhouse emissions, urgent action to adopt sustainable rice cultivation worldwide is essential.
SRI provides a solution.
SRI contributes to mitigating climate change, meeting food demands, and enhancing the environment in which rice is grown, all while providing benefits to the lives of those practicing its methods and beyond.
SRI benefits our planet, people, and prosperity together.
SRI can significantly
mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
and enhance the environment.
SRI provides multiple benefits for people by
reducing hunger, poverty, inequalities and
promoting women's empowerment.
With reduced inputs and increased outputs,
SRI generates more capital for both households and nations.
Furthermore, with increased profits and mechanisation reducing labour requirements,
SRI is an attractive livelihood opportunity.
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a climate-smart agricultural methodology for cultivating rice. SRI achieves greater yields from reduced inputs, while simultaneously minimising greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane.
SRI is based on a set of Four Key Principles that elicit more robust and productive plants (phenotypes) from any given variety of rice (genotype) through sustainable practises. These principles are adapted to the needs, skills, priorities, and environment of the rice farmer. Through a variety of different management approaches, such as reducing the density of rice plants, or using alternate wetting and drying (AWD), farmers will produce higher yields that are more resilient to the changing climate.
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