SRI-RICE CENTER NEWS - 2012
This page contains updates about the SRI International Network and Resources Center (SRI-Rice)
(Go to the latest resources page for news about SRI from around the world)
December 2012
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Happy New Year from SRI-Rice, December 31
The SRI-Rice Team wishes you all a Happy Year New! As of the end of 2012, there are 51 "SRI countries" (..where we have credible reports that use of SRI methods has produced ‘the SRI effect’ - more productive phenotypes from a given rice genotype). We hope that all of your SRI efforts in 2013 meet with success! SRI-Rice Annual Report, December 15
Our SRI-Rice Annual Report (July 2011 - June 2012) was published during December 2012. In addition to the online version, you can request a hard copy from the SRI-Rice Center while we still have stock. To keep up to date on more recent events, visit our website and social media (Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube-India, Slideshare, SRI News and Views blog, and for research, Mendeley). SRI-Rice, located at the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) is supported by the Jim Carrey's Better U Foundation.-
Article Published in the Journal Agriculture and Food Security, December 1
Here's the citation for the latest SRI-Rice publication: Uphoff, Norman. Supporting food security in the 21st century through resource-conserving increases in agricultural production. Agriculture and Food Security, 1:18, 2012.
November 2012
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Article Published on CTA website, November 20
Erika Styger's article "Increasing rice yields and saving water: Lessons for policy and practice - The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)" was published in CTA's Knowledge for Development website. -
Cornell SRI Lecture, November 16
Erika Styger presented a lecture to Prof. Peter Hobbs' Cornell University course in Agriculture in Developing Nations (IARD 4020). The PowerPoint from the talk entitled The System of Rice Intensification – Case Study of Mali is available on the SRI-Rice Slideshare site. -
World Bank Institute SRI Video Conference, November 15
SRI-Rice staff joined in a WBI video conference together with participants from Kenya, Malawi and India. Erika Styger made a presentation in the 3 hour event entitled "Adapting SRI principles to rainfed rice - Lessons from Mali and Tanzania; South-South Knowledge Sharing." The event was organized by World Bank Institute and World Bank. (222 min. video) -
Presentation at University of Alberta, Canada... and Publication in Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, November 14
His talk, "We are not alone: Messages from inner space for 21st century agriculture" is available on Youtube. [An article with a similar title was also published in 2012. Here is the citation:
Norman Uphoff presented the Bentley Lecture in Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Uphoff, N. 2012. We are not alone: Messages from inner space. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 10(4): 263-267. doi:10.1080/14735903.2012.690957
2012 October
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SRI-Rice Unveils New Video Library, October 31
SRI-Rice unveiled its new video library, which includes SRI-Rice videos as well as organized playlists several hundred videos. Videos are also annotated by country.[see feature article by Lucy Fisher] -
Presentation at the 2nd Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development, October 28
Norman Uphoff made a presentation in Punta del Este, Uruguay, at the CTA Side-Event on 'Partnerships for Research, Capacity Building, Innovation and Foresighting: Managing Water for Agriculture and Food in ACP Countries.' Title: "Integrating Agroecological Crop Management within Integrated Water Resource Management: Lessons from Experience with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)."
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SRI-Rice Welcomes Speaker from Benin, October 23
SRI-Rice sponsored Pascal Gbenou's presentation on SRI in Benin while he was visiting the SRI-Rice Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Pascal met with the SRI-Rice Team and presented a seminar on SRI in Benin on October 23 (see PowerPoint presentation). [more.....] -
Sustainable Agriculture Course Learns about SRI at Cornell, October 18
Erika Styger gave a lecture on the System of Rice Intensification in Prof. Gary Fick's course on Sustainable Agriculture (CSS190) at Cornell University -
Training Manuals on the System of Crop Intensification (SCI) Published by SRI-Rice, October 12
SRI-Rice published in hard copy four additional training manuals on adaptation of SRI principles to other crops. Three of the manuals (
mustard/rape seed, finger millet, and wheat), originally prepared by PRADAN in Hindi, were translated for SRI-Rice by Pratyaya Jagannath. Another manual by P. Baskaran on turmeric in India was edited by Norman Uphoff for production. These English versions are also available on the SRI-Rice website. -
Information on Climate-Smart Agriculture and SCI Shared at World Bank Seminar, October 10
Norman Uphoff made a presentation entitled Producing More with Less: Innovative Cultivation Practices in Rice Crop (SRI) and Beyond at the World Bank Institute BBL series on Sustainable Land and Water Management Community of Practice: Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices - from Pilot to Scaling Up. He also prepared and distributed a booklet about the System of Crop Intensification (Raising Smallholder Food Crop Yields with Climate-Smart Agroecological Practices) at the event.
September 2012
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Video on System of Crop Intensification, September 22
Mark Fulford was interviewed by Erika Styger at the Common Grounds Fair in Maine (USA). A video about his views on the System of Crop Intensification is available on YouTube (click on the thumbnail at right to play the enlarged video). -
Lecture on Shifting Cultivation at Cornell, September 12
Erika Sager presented a lecture on Shifting Cultivation -- Slash-and-Burn Agriculture in Prof. Peter Hobbs' course on Traditional Agriculture in Developing Countries (CSS IA 4030) -
Peace Corps Workshop, September 11-13
SRI-Rice co-organized a Peace Corps workshop/training in Benin together withcollaboration between the West Africa Food Security Partnership, SRI-Rice at Cornell University, and the Conseil de Concertation des Riziculteurs du Benin (CCR-B), and was hosted at the Solidarité Agricole Integrée (SAIN) teaching farmer and research center in Kakanitchoé, Ouémé. Participants came from Benin, Senegal, Guinea, and Togo.
