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Title
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More Rice for People, More Water for the Planet
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Subtitle
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System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
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Author
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Africare, Oxfam America, WWF-ICRISAT Project
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Editor or Organisation
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WWF-ICRISAT Project
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Year
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2010
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Keywords
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water efficient agriculture, rice, food security
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Country
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India, Mali, Vietnam, other
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Type
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good practice
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Language
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English
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Table of Contents
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OVERVIEW
COUNTRY REPORTS
Africare’s Experience with SRI in Mali
Oxfam’s Experience with SRI in Vietnam
WWF’s Experience with SRI in India
SUMMARY
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Abstract
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The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is perhaps the best current example of options available to farmers and nations to promote community-led agricultural growth, while managing soil and water resources more sustainably and even enhancing their future productive capacity.
SRI is a set of alternative crop management practices, developed in the 1980s in Madagascar to benefit farmers with small landholdings. SRI increases the productivity of resources used in rice cultivation, reducing requirements for water, seed, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides
and often labor—especially tasks performed by women. SRI represents an unprecedented opportunity for developing economies to enable these households to be more productive, secure, and self-reliant, while buffering
and even reversing the trends that contribute to climate change. This is a win-win-win situation for rural households, countries and the planet.
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Permission
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Yes
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Category
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Technologies
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