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In the Press - 2017

December 2017

• World Bank to provide $318 mn loan for Tamil Nadu irrigation projects [$318 million loan for the Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization Project that includes SRI and SSI]
  December 26, 2017, Business Standard (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Kaolack - programme d’amélioration de la production du riz Le SRI, une solution pour assurer l’autosuffisance [WAAPP/ANCAR workshop reveals 50-100% yield increases over 10,000 ha in Kaolack, Senegal]
  December 22, 2017, Sinesaloum (Senegal)
• Burkina Faso: Système de riziculture intensif - Des productrices de Dapélogo éclairées par le Larlé Naaba [Four women's rice production associations trained in SRI methods]
  December 21, 2017, AllAfrica (Burkina Faso) [original in Sidewaya website.
• Riz au Sud-Ouest: à la découverte du "farmer business school" [GIZ (Germany) program in SW Burkina Faso includes SRI]
  December 18, 2017, L'Economiste Dufaso (Burkina Faso)
• WB to fund $455m irrigation project [Project will also support smallholder producers to adopt new conservation technologies SRI and SSI which reduce average water usage by 35 per cent and increase yields by 22 per cent per hectare.]
  December 16, 2017, The Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Padi jenis SRI dan gogo cocok dikembangkan di NTT [Universitas Nusa Cendana (Undana) Kupang project finds SRI useful in NTT as it can raise yields by 100% and adapt to climate change conditions]
  December 12, 2017, NetralNews (NTT, Indonesia)
• Petani Tarabbi minta jalan beton kepada bupati Luwu Timur [Community and govt. celebrate organic SRI success at harvest festival in So. Sulawesi.]
  December 11, 2017, Tribun Timur (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia)
• Panen padi organik di Lutim capai 5 ton per hektar [Harvest festival by govt official for organic SRI project celebrates 5 ton yield.]
  December 11, 2017,Rakyatku News (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia)
• Agri plan to win pest attack fight [Agri plan to combat pest attack on paddy in Odisha, India, promotes SRI, neem-based fertilisers and Trichoderma]
  December 6, 2017, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• Les inquiétantes contrevérités de Abdoul Mbaye, Par Dr Waly DIOUF [Contrary to govt. claims, rice has made progress in Senegal thanks to SRI, mechanization, etc.]
  December 7, 2017, Senego (Senegal)
• *Tribal farmers reap it rich in ragi cultivation
  December 4, 2017, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)

November 2017

• Jokowi building three dams to boost paddy production in Sumbawa [3 new govt. dams in Sumbawa NTB, will boost production from 3-4 to 5-6 tons/hectare for conventional paddy and 8-10 tons/hectare for SRI-grown paddy.]
  November 30, 2017, gres.news (re: Sumbawa, Indonesia)
• Dinas Pertanian Kabupaten Bekasi ajak warga tanam padi metode SRI
  November 28, 2017, Dakta.com (West Java, Indonesia)
• Côte d’Ivoire/ Le SRI, une technique rizicole avantageuse présentée au SARA 2017
  November 27, 2107, Agrici.net (Côte d’Ivoire)
• Kementerian PUPR kebut pembangunan 3 bendungan di Sumbawa [Public works infrastructure to support SRI methods to raise yields on Sumbawa.]
  November 27, 2017, Indepndensi (Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia)
• Agri dept targets 500 hectares under machine planting [20,000 hectares out of target area will be covered by SRI]
  November 24, 2017, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Pertanian organik sediakan pangan sehat, terbebas dari racun kimia
  November 24, 2017, Bisnis Bali (Bali, Indonesia)
• Une nouvelle technique de riziculture double les rendements à Nioro (ANCAR)
  November 18, 2017, Agence de Presse Sénégalasie (Senegal)
• Toubacouta : Le SRI améliore les rendements en riz à Coular Socé
  November 17, 2017, Agence de Presse Sénégalasie (Senegal)
• Terapkan pola baru, Kelompok Tani Sri Rejeki panen perdana [Farmer's group has success with SRI; gains government support]
  November 16, 2017, Ikatan Penulis Dan Jurnalis Indonesia [East Java, Indonesia]
• Chap reminds Liberians to focus on food security
  November 13, 2017,The New Republic (Liberia) [reposted in allAfrica]
• Organic push to tilling
  November 20, 2017, The Telegraph (Bihar, India)
• Produksi padi hemat air [More about the water-saving and GHG reductions of SRI in Nusa Tenggara Timur]
  November 11, 2017, Media Indonesia (NTT, Indonesia)
• TBL, SAGCOT leader advocate efficient water use by manufacturers [SAGCOT chief says SRI has high yields with less water; notes Kilombero Valley success.]
  November 9, 2017, IPPmedia (Tanzania)
• CHAP strengthens local farmers combat food insecurity [$500,000 for rice production equipment donated to Liberian SRI farmers through Japanese Rice Grant Project.]
  November 1, 2017, New Republic (Liberia)

October 2017

• Teknologi prediksi musim bantu petani cegah gagal panen [ICCTF sets up climate change prediction technology along with SRI project in NTT]
  October 30, 2017, Cendana News (NTT, Indonesia)
• Une agro-économiste salue la dimension régionale de la mise en œuvre du WAAPP
  October 29, 2017, Agence de Presse Sénégalasie (Senegal)
• Metode SRI tingkatkan produksi padi sampai 100% [Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF), UGM and UKAW adopt SRI as a climate change strategy]
  October 23, 2017, LINTAS NTT (Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia)
• ICCTF dan UGM kembangkan bibit padi SRI di Kupang
  October 23, 2017, Tempo.co (Re: NTT, Indonesia)
• Harvest day [East Nusa Tenggara Governor Frans Lebu Raya and Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) executive director Tonny Wagey harvest paddy grown using SRI in Kupang.]
  October 23, 2017, The Jakarta Post (Jakarta, Indonesia, re:Kupang, NTT)
• Tingkatkan produktivitas padi dengan metode SRI
  October 22, 2017, Sindo News (Re: NTT, Indonesia)
• Gubernur NTT: Budi daya padi SRI layak direplikasi,and another article: Budi daya sistem SRI tingkatkan produksi padi di Kupang
  October 21, 2017, Republika.co.id (re: NTT, Indonesia)
• System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Nepal [World Neighbors work in Mahadevsthan Village, Kavre show average SRI yields 30% higher (as high as 62%); will now introduce to Udaypur].
  October 18, 2017, Kathmandu Tribune (Nepal)
• Sécurité alimentaire: les enfants aussi [Project in Odisha, India, implemented by CARD, a Swiss NGO, promotes SRI.]
  October 16, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, re: Odisha, India)
• Zanzibar Ministry of Agriculture to reduce rice importation [SRI noted the secret behind increased rice production in the archipelago made up of Unguja and Pemba islands with 1.4 million people]
  October 14, 2017, Coastweek (Tanzania)
• Cultiver las force des plus faibles [Project in Odisha, India, implemented by CARD, a Swiss NGO, promotes SRI.]
  October 12, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, re: Odisha, India)
• Indramayu akan hasilkan padi rendah gul [Article suggests that adding mycorrhizal Rhizophora will raise yield and produce rice with lower sugar content
  October 10, 2017, News/republika.co.id, (West Java, Indonesia)
• Sowing seeds [Langit Collective help Lun Bawang community in Sarawak to sell their traditional rices, which have now been introduced to SRI methods.]
  October 4, 2017, The Sun Daily (Sarawak, Malaysia)

September 2017

• SRI method gains popularity in Krishna [31,000 ha. under SRI cultivation in the kharif season.]
  September 23, 2017, The Hindu, (Andhra Pradesh, India)
  
• Team KVK Ambikapur visit ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa [KVK visits ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa village to make SRI value chain links]
  September 21, 2017, The Hitavada (Chhattisgarh, India)
• FTP UGM dan kelompok tani kembangkan beras hitam organik [Farmers Group near Jogjakarta has success growing black rice, which consumers are now paying a premium for due to reported health benefits, with SRI methods.]
  September 14, 2017, Tribun Jogja (Jawa Tengah)
  
• Adaptación climática agraria
  May 18, 2017, El Universo (Ecuador) [accessed September 13, 2017]
  
• World Food day concept from IFAD: Eradicating rural poverty in Rwanda [SRI is one of the innovations piloted by IFAD in Rwanda]
  September 10, 2017, The New Times (Rwanda)
• Wow, hasil panen padi SRI di pesanggaran Banyuwangi meningkat pesat [SRI raised the usual 4.5-5 ton/ha yield to 7.5 ton in Sumbermulyo village.]
  September 8, 2017, Times Indonesia (Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
• Farmers claim superior mustard yields with new cultivation method [SMI allows resource-poor farmers to use less water and seeds and yet achieve significantly higher yields... so the government needs to promote it instead GM mustard]
  September 7, 2017, Live Mint (India)
• Tanzania goes for Climate Smart Agriculture [Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Development said that urgent action was needed to build resilience to climate impacts.. need to make farmers aware of the need to adopt water harvesting means, water storage investments and adoption of SRI by smallholder farmers .]
  September 2017, AllAfrica (Tanzania) [similar article in East African Business News]
• Global warming puts Asia’s vital yields at high risk [Cites efforts in Vietnam to use SRI for emissions reduction]
  September 3, 2017, BusinessMirror (Philippines; article notes Vietnam) (a Dutch translation is available on the AGF website.)
• Plant identification launched Phayeng experiments with integrated farming [21 farmers in Chakpa Phayeng village planting RCM9 and practices variety with SRI in attempts to find varieties and practices that are adapted to climate change.]
  September 2, 2017, Sangai Express (Manipur, India) .
• Liberia: Japanese Gov. reaffirms commitment to boost rice production in Liberia [IFAD comments at CHAPS' Japanese Rice Grant Project workshop that focuses on SRI]
  September 1, 2017, AllAfrica (Liberia) (story also in Front Page Africa)

August 2017

• System of root intensification increases mustard yield: Experts [SRI adaption for mustard (SMI) in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand yielded up to 57 quintals/hectare according to Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA).]
  August 31, 2017, India Today (New Delhi, India)
• Profitable crop combination in a small farm [SRI farmers in Isabella province who quadrupled rice production with SRI to plant next season's SRI crop in January. They are now expanding to other crops.]
  August 30, 2017, Manila Bulletin (Philippines)
• Japanese Government gives boost to rice production
  August 17, 2017, Daily Observer (Liberia)
• Caring for rivers to preserve Sarawak’s highlands [In Ba’kelalan, Sarawak, CIMB Islamic Bank / WWF-Malaysia project will promote sustainable rice farming (via SRI) to minimise forest conversion to agriculture.]
  August 15, 2017, Star2.com (Sarawak, Malaysia)
• Burundi: Le marais de Nyavyamo donnera près de 5.380 tonnes de riz
  August 15, 2017, Africa Generation News (Burundi)
• Dealing with adversities Goa’s farmers face
  August 14, 2017, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• Tăng 150% sản lượng nhờ hệ thống thâm canh lúa cải tiến
  August 8, 2017, BOMOI.com (Vietnam)
• MoAD to support drought-hit farmers [Ministry of Ag Development to introduce SRI into Terai districts as part of drought resistance program]
• August 6, 2017, The Himalayan Times (Nepal)
• SRI dikearap ulih nambah asil padi orang bumai di Long Semadoh
  August 2, 2017, Utusan Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia)

July 2017

• Can Thailand’s latest ‘superfood’ fortify its struggling farmers? [Includes story of Fa Mui, who grows and sells SRI rice in Chiang Rai.]
  July 29, 2017, Chiangrai Times (Chiang Rai, Thailand)
• Agung Hendriadi "Kita manfaatkan babinsa untuk membantu pertanian" [Dept. Ag to continue working with armed services, includes SRI]
  July 24, 2017, tirto.id (Indonesia)
• Agri officers focus on SRI technique [Malkangiri administration to grow 56,000 ha of SRI (of a total of 73,125 ha)]
  July 23, 2017, The New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• 4 Korba villagers receive ‘Sri Method’ farming training [78 farmers study SRI in 'Project Jalgram’ being implemented jointly by Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) and NABARD]
  July 21, 2017, The Pioneer (Chhattisgarh, India)
• Paddy, papaya, vegetables and ornamental plants... A victorious award heaping farmer!
  July 21, 2017, Vikatan (Telangana, India)
  
• Budidaya padi organik dengan metode SRI, panen lebih banyak melimpah [Tips for planting with SRI methods]
  July 2017, Tribun Barat (Indonesia)
• SRI farm method introduced in Long Semadoh
  July 21, 2017, Borneo Post (Sarawak, Malaysia)
• Nouvelle technique de vulgarisation du riz chez FIDA
  July 20, 2017, Ikiriho, (Burundi)
• Anies Baswedan Hadiri panen padi binaan Muhammadiyah DIY
  July 19, 2017, Republika (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) [Similar article in Tempo]
• Tamil Nadu's granary losing substantial ground: delta region shrinks by 20%
  July 15, 2017, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rice self-sufficiency
  July 14-20, 2017, Nepali Times (Nepal)
• Use local rice for school feeding programme – Group [Ghana urged to use local rice for govt programs; SRI could increase quality.]
  July 12, 2017, Citifmonline (Ghana)
• Organic rice transplantation festival celebrated in Patna
  July 11, 2017, Matters India (Bihar, India)
• Cấy thưa - phương pháp đã chứng minh hiệu quả tại nhiều nước (history of SRI)
  July 11, 2017, Khoa Học Phát Triển (Vietnam)
• Flood destroys one-third of crops, kills over 3000 livestock [To counter the flood losses the administration will be taking up corrective measures like August transplantation, short duration paddy varieties and SRI.]
  July 6, 2017, E-PAO (Manipur, India)
• Gains for grains [ClimaAdapt project in India successfully incorporates SRI into interventions]
  July 4, 2017, BusinessLine (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India)
• Enfants victimes des migrations [Through the work of the Swiss NGO Terre des Hommes, 1340 families improved their food production and income-generating capacity from SRI and crop diversification]
  July 3, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, article re: India)

June 2017

• Gambia: WAAPP 3rd Technical Regional Steering Committee Meeting wraps up in Banjul [WAAPP meeting report says SRI research infrastructure and human capacity have been augmented and strengthened]
  June 27, 2017, AllAfrica (The Gambia)
• Rice and food security: Serious constraints [SRI noted for environmentally increasing rice production in this article written for Nepal's 14th National Rice Day.]
  June 26, 2017, The Himalayan Times (Nepal)
• Shwebo Pawsan to be cultivated with SRI in mid July [ 20 acres of paddy fields in Shwebo Township, 10 acres in Tabayin Township, 10 acres in Ye-U Township and 10 acres in Wetlet Township to be planted with SRI by United Nilar Agribusiness Co. Ltd. and the Sagaing Region Agricultural Department.]
  June 22, 2017, Global New Light of Myanmar (Myanmar)
  
• Experts encourage paddy farmers to take up SRI cultivation in district
  June 18, 2017, The Times of India (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Nurturing farmers in Phek district [CWWS team conducted on-field training on SRI in Enhulumi and Lasumi villages on June 16]
  June 17, 2017, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• ¿Qué es el SRI?
  June 16, 2017. El Telégrafo (Ecuador)
  

May 2017

• System of Rice Intensification (SRI) findings shared at Hanoi workshop [SRI-LMB workshop April 23-25, 2017 in Hanoi]
  May 19, 2017, Newswit.com (Thailand: re Vietnam workshop) (Article also on ThaiPR.net)
• Despite food insecurity, Kisumu farmers lack ready market for rice [SRI increases production in Ahero, though distribution systems are lacking]
  May 8, 2017, Business Daily (Kenya)
• Petani Blang Nisam kembangkan SRI organik [P.T. Medco's CSR project in East Aceh Regency has success]
  May 7, 2017, Serambi Indonesia (Aceh, Indonesia)
• Petani Blang Nisam minta Medco lanjutkan pembinaan pengembangan padi SRI organik [P.T. Medco's CSR project in East Aceh Regency has success]
  May 6, 2017, Serambi Indonesia (Aceh, Indonesia)
• Just one rice seedling per hill will yield high
  May 6, 2017, Manila Bulletin (Isabella, Philippines)
• CHAP discloses progress of Japanese Rice Grant Project [Project is making progress in Lofa, Bassa, Bomi, Cape Mount and Montserrado counties. Six rice processing facilities upgraded to process two to three metric tons of rice daily.]
  May 4, 2017, Daily Observer (Liberia)
• Batan kembangkan padi ‘nuklir’ di Purbalingga [New variety developed with radiation grown with organic SRI]
  May 3, 2017, Gatra News (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia)

April 2017

• Art of giving [Adani Foundation introduces SRI on 4,000 acres in 42 villages empowering 2,050 farmers in Tiroda region of Maharashtra]
  April 29, 2017, AhmendabadMirror (Gujarat, India)
• From 50 cavans to 200 cavans per hectare
  April 27, 2017, Manila Bulletin (Isabella, Philippines)
• The unending plight of farmers [SRI noted as one of the solutions...]
  April 26, 2017, Free Press (India)
• Akhir tahun, luas lahan organik Banyuwangi mencapai 100 hektar [7 districts in Banyuwangi have 100 ha. of organic SRI; 42 are certified organic]
  April 26, 2017, beritajatim.com (Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
• Boedi Krisnawan Suhargo, setia menjaga lingkungan dan menyejahterakan petani [SRI will help protect the environment and raise yields]
  April 22, 2017, IndoChinatown.com (Jakarta, Indonesia)
• CHAP trains Bomi farmers in SRI technology
  April 17, 2017, Daily Observer (Liberia)
• Why farmers are looking at drought-resistant crops
  April 11, 201, Rediff Business (Punjab, India)
• Petani wlahar wetan kembangkan beras organik [Farmers from Wlahar Wetan, Kalibagor, Central Java, got t/ha with organic SRI using local varieties.]
  April 4, 2017, SuaraMerdeka (Central Java, Indonesia)

March 2017

• 1,800 smallholder farmers targeted for System of Rice Intensification [1,800 smallholder farmers from Cape Mount, Montserrado, Grand Bassa, Bomi and Lofa counties are receiving training in SRI]
  March 24, 2017, Daily Observer (Liberia)
• Bản in: Tra Vinh province’s rice output hits all-time high [Some 57 training courses in Vietnam on various ag techniques, including SRI, to produce VietGap standard rice were organized, benefiting around 1,700 local farmers.]
  March 23, 2017, Talk Vietnam (Vietnam)
• The ignored side of the Cauvery debate [SRI is part of the solution to the water crisis]
  March 21, 2017, Your Story (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Liberia: Chap strengthens technicians' skills [J-Rice Project 3-day training in Foya Lofa County and at CHAP Office Zubah, Liberia]
  March 9, 2017, AllAfrica (Liberia)
• Nhandan Newspaper – Vietnam’s agriculture contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions: minister [Minister Phat's COP21 speech said that in regards to rice production, the country has encouraged farmers to apply advanced techniques through System of Rice Intensification (SRI)]
  March 5, 2017, Talk Vietnam (Vietnam)

February 2017

• Pour l’atteinte de l’objectif de l’autosuffisance en riz en 2017 : La campagne de contre saison démarre plus tôt que prévu à Matam [Article from the Matam region of Senegal. President of one of the producers' unions in Kanel department pledges to get 12 tons/ha with SRI.]
• February 20, 2017, business221 (Senegal)
• Office Riz Mopti: Des resultats encourageants [Agriculture Minister suggests use of SRI and other practices at regional agriculture conference in Mali.]
  February 8, 2017, aBamak.com (Mali)
• Youths trained on sustainable farm practices at OUAT [Ag. Dept. in South Tapanuli trying Jajar legowo, SRI and hazton methods to raise yields.]
  February 1, 2017, The Pioneer (Odisha, India)

January 2017

• 2016, Tapanuli Selatan surplus beras 84 ton lebih [Ag. Dept. in South Tapanuli trying Jajar legowo, SRI and hazton methods to raise yields.]
  January 28, 2017, AntaraNews (South Tapanuli, Indonesia)
• Tirunelveli rice farmer bags award for record yield [Tirunelveli rice farmer gets award for record SRI yield
  January 28, 2017, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Padi Bondowoso cocok dengan pola tanam Hazton dan SRI [Hazton and SRI methods both tried in Bondowoso]
  January 26, 2017, Times Indonesia (East Java, Indonesia)
• Award winner wants more youth to take up farming [Tamil Nadu SRI award winner urges youth to take up farming.]
  January 26, 2017, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Seedlings sowed at Singur site
  January 26, 2017, The Times of India (West Bengal, India) [5 months after the Supreme Court ordered the Singur land returned to its owners, Boro seedlings, were planted with SRI on 200 acres Gopalnagar.]
• Lotus Foods' Ken Lee receives Leadership Award for Citizenship [Ken Lee wins Specialty Foods Association Leadership Award for Citizenship.]
  January 20, 2017, Yahoo! Finance (USA)
• MOO-sic for chilled out milk! Meet the scientists and inventors coming up with wacky solutions to improve our lives [SRI is one of the wacky solutions!]
  January 19, 2017, MailOnline (USA?)
• Accelerate policy and community-resilient measures [SRI noted as one of Odisha's adaptation and coping mechanisms natural disasters.]
  January 16, 2017, The Pioneer (Odisha, India)
• Ekonomi hijau untuk Indonesia
  January 3, 2017, Koran Sindo (Indonesia)

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Blog Posts and Website Articles - 2017

• Sy, Souleymane Diam. 2017. Riziculture pluviale : La méthode Sri donne des résultats satisfaisants dans le bassin arachidier. West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) website. November. [accessed Jan. 5, 2018]
• 2017?. Small changes can make a difference. European Commission website.[Lao PDR project by European Commission's International Cooperation and Development describes the SRS system that is derived from SRI.]
• Agustin, Rose Jeanette. 2017. Try this unconventional farming for a better yield. GoodNewsPilipinas.com. December 28. [Article about the NGO AGREA in Marinduque. Philippines.]
• 김진국 기자가 (Kim, Jin-kook). 2017. 북에 신농법 전수 미 NGO, 여행금지 후 첫 방북 (NGOs to transfer new farming methods to North Korea). Radio Free Asia website. December 29. [Korean article and audio clip by Radio Free Asia on the NGO AFSC's continuing efforts to promote SRI in North Korea.]
• Parket, Anna. 2017. Sustainable Agriculture in Madagascar has a worldwide impact. Borgen Project blog. December 30.
• 2017. New Agreement signed to support Climate Resilient Agriculture – over 500,000 farmers to benefit in Tamil Nadu World Bank website, December 26. [Press release about signing of the $318 million loan for the Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization Project that includes SRI and SSI.]
• date? Difference between SRI method and Traditional method in paddy production. Course Hero website. [Article on a student site.]
• *Katoch, Manabi. 2017. This farmer grew 100 tonnes of 20-foot tall sugarcane in one acre! Here’s how! The Better India website. December 13. [Maharashtra farmer uses SSI to increase yield. Great photos.]
• Edmond, Ewane. 2017. Comment produire le riz de manière Intensive: Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). Espace Pub/Agriculture Au Cameroun website. December 13. [Overview of SRI methods published on Cameroon website.]
• Ka, Mangoné. 2017. Les inquiétantes contrevérités de Abdoul Mbaye, Par Dr Waly DIOUF*. Senego website. December 7, 2017. [Contrary to govt. claims, rice production has made progress in Senegal thanks to SRI, mechanization, etc.]
• 2017. Bærekraftig landbruk. Partners website. [The Norwegian website for Partners, an NGO with SRI-focused rice production projects in Myanmar.] [accessed December 3, 2017]
• Gerety, Rowan Moore. 2017 Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar? Mongabay website. November 29. [SRI part of effort linked to carbon credits/REDD+ in Makira Natural Park village near Madagascar's Makira Natural Park.]
• Speakman, Oliver. 2017. Lotus Foods: Changing rice production for better. Impakter website. November 24, 2017. [Interview with Lotus Foods, a US-Based company that imports rice grown with SRI methods.]
• 2017. Biaya murah dan sehat, Haji Usnali Hijrah ke pertanian organik. salamtani.id website. [Story of an organic SRI farmer in Indramayu.]
• *Rai, Vijay. 2017. Farmers turn to organic farming in Bundelkhand. Welthungerhilfe website. November 23. [Story of System of Vegetable Intensification (SVI) in a Welthungerhilfe-funded project Kapuriya, a tribal village in the district of Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh.]
• Nkonu, Michael. 2017. SUSTAIN’s interest-driven partnerships: a win-win for river flow and farmers’ field. IUCN Water Knowledge Platform. [n order to further improve water use efficiency, SUSTAIN-Africa has introduced SRI to smallholder rice producers in Lake Rukwa Water Basin (LRWB) in Southwestern Tanzania.]
• 2017. Hundreds of students join organic rice harvesting in Bihar. Matters India. November 19. [This is the seventh consecutive year of organic farming with SRI at Tarumitra, a Jesuit farm near Patna.]
• Arandela, Joby. 2017. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Philippines to benefit farmers, consumers and biodiversity. Panorama website. November 13. (Article about ZIDOFA, a farmers association, that grows and markets organic SRI in Panay, Philippines)
• 2017. Kashmir struggles with climate adaptation projects. India Climate Dialogue website. November 10. [SRI noted as one option for Kashmir's climate change projects.]
• Phansalkar, Sanjiv. 2017. Why rural India needs to widen domains for micro-enterprises. YourStory website. November 10. [SRI equipment enterprise by PRADAN in Gaya, Bihar noted.]
• 2017. The meeting on SRI VietNetwork. SRI in Vietnam website. September 27. [accessed November 10, 2017]
• Parvaiz, Athar. 2017. Kashmir struggles with climate adaptation projects. India Climate Dialogue website. [Water Use Efficiency (WUE) project element to include SRI.]
• 2017. The Jesuit who revolutionized rice production. Jesuits in Britain website. November 8.
• Sánchez, Erica. 2017. Sustainable landscape: How to reduce rice methane emissions? #WeAreClimate blog. November 7 [Story about progress on a MIT Climate CoLab project to reduce methane emissions by using SRI in Nepal.]
• Cahyadi, Firdaus. 2017. Adaptasi perubahan iklim petani Kupang. Kontan.co.id website. [SRI noted as example of dealing with climate change in NTT, Indonesia.
• Levitt, Shannon. 2017. Jesuit scientist’s controversial rice system flowers in poor nations. Crux webiste. November 6 [Catholic magazine remembers Father Laulanie; plus info from World Neighbor's director on Nepal program.]
• Bhagwat, Shreeya. 2017. An inspiring tale of how one woman in rural India created entrepreneurs out of homemakers. Yourstory website. October 31. [Story a woman who gained respect through SRI]
• Urhahn, Jan, and Christine Pohl.2017. Alternatives: Agroecology and community supported agriculture. Heinrich Boell Stiftung. October 31.
• 2017. Perbedaan SRI, HAZTON, Salibu dan cara petani (Konvensional). Sampulpertanian website. January 15. [This is an article explaining the difference between SRI, ratooning, "hazton method, and traditional rice production in Indonesia] [accessed October 30, 2017]
• Pragati Koraput. 2017. Reducing GHG emission through system of crop intensification in South Odisha. Climate CoLab website. Proposal for Land Use: Agriculture, Forestry, Waste Management in the Climate Co-Lab Competition. October 27.
• 2017. Bisakah SRI menggantikan cara bertani orang Indonesia? Desa Modern.com. October 25.
• 2017 Spotlight on Lotus Foods. Middlebury Co-op website. October 19.
• Astrida, Elisabeth. 2017. Pangan untuk Rakyat: Akankah Padi Menggantikan Ubi di Wamena? Mongabay Indonesia website. October. 20 [SRI included in paddy project in Papua mountain region]
• Gujja, Biksham. 2017. Producing More with Less: Promoting System of Rice Intensification, SRI and Up scaling Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative SSI. Changemakers website.[AgSri's Pitch for the Creating Shared Value Prize, which starts Nov. 1]
• Matamoro, Renaldo C. 2017. It’s organic but don’t panic! Committee on World Food Security (CFS), FAO website. October 18. [SRI acknowledged; Eosta's info card system described]
• 2017. A new method of rice farming. Pakissan.com website. October 15 [SRI in Kerala, India]
• PANAP. 2017. 16 Days of Global Action: Advance Food Sovereignty and Agroecology! Promote youth’s participation in agriculture! PAN Asia Pacific website. September 29. [SRI is example of agroecology that is noted.] [accessed October 15]
• Strough, Scott. 2017. Can we reverse global warming? Red Planet website. October 9. [SRI listed at #1 of 12 examples in the "Where the farmer and the scientist meet" section.]
• Chhandosree. 2017. Women in Jharkhand village use education to achieve development goals. YourStory website. October 11. [Women in a night school in Jharkhand adopt srividhi (SRI) and other activities.]
  
• 2017? Madagascar: Vanilla village development. Fondation Givaudan website. [700 cultivators were trained in SRI as part of this project]
• 2017. SRI4women.org website [Check out the newly revised SRI4women website!] [accessed October 10, 2017]
• Angeli, Massimo. 2017. Acquisition of tools/equipments and its distribution to the SRI community. Engim Internazionale website. October 5. [Tools made available to Engim Internzionale's SRI project in Sierra Leone.]
• Perlman, Jeff. 2017. The secret (and not-so-secret) life of rice. Layoga website. October 5. [Overview of rice production that describes SRI]
• 2017. Philippines: Reaping what she sowed. Comboni Missionaries Ireland website. October 4. [Article about Cherrie Atilano's SRI work with AGREA in Marinduque, Philippines]
• TNAU. Updated 2017. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). TNAU Agritech Portal website. [updated version of earlier manual] [accessed October 10, 2017]
  
• 2017. Team KVK Ambikapur visit ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa. Hitavada website. September 21.
• 2017. Artikel: Budidaya padi SRI. BUMR website. September 15. [Indonesian language article with FAQs and planting methods.]
• Grover, Sam. 2017. How to fight climate change with what you eat. Mother Nature Network website. September 20.
• 2017. Tata Power organises Swavalamban Drive to train farmers towards self-sustainability in villages of Maharashtra. India Education Diary website. September 18. [330 farmers adopted the SRI practices on 303 acres in villages of Maval, Maharashtra in project funded by Tata Power.]
• Nowicki, Saskia. 2017. ‘Water chose me’: A career conversation with Professor Bancy Mati. Words on Water website. August 3. [Article on Bancy's work in Kenya with SRI and other water-related issues] [accessed September 19]
• Marwati. 2017. UGM and farmer group develop black rice. Universitas Gadjah Mada website. September 13.
• Rice biodiversity. Custom Culinary website. September 12. [Cites Lotus Foods and their commitment to SRI]
• Khaled Fathi Salem, Khaled (د. خالد فتحي سالم) 2017. طريقة ”سري” لزراعة الأرز المكثف .. حقيقة أم خيال 9 (A "secret" way to grow rice intensively. Fact or fiction?). elaard.com website. September 9. [Article (in Arabic) from Egypt ponders the merits of SRI and SCI.]
• 2017. Possible options for enhancing agricultural production. Kisan Suvidha website. September 6. [Use SRI in Kharif season where yields are likely to decline.]
• Magasool. 2017. Save dryland farmers - make agriculture possible in drought. Milaap website. [Crowdfunding ad for the NGO Magasool in Tamil Nadu, which promotes modified SRI using mechanization.]
• Nitin, B. 2017. Meet the organic farmer who transformed a barren wasteland near Hyderabad into a lush farm. The News Minute website, August 17. [Story of GN Naidu, one of the first SRI farmers in Telangana].
• Markley, Stephan. 2017. What about hope? ‘Drawdown’ aims to reverse planetary catastrophe. Paste Magazine August 17. [SRI gets a prominent mention.]
• 2017. How rice intensification technology has doubled production in Kilosa. IPP media website. [Tanzania] [accessed August 15, 2017]
• Bhagwat, Shreeya. 2017. Enterprising woman farmer charts a path to prosperity. Village Square website. August 11. [Maharashtra woman promotes SRI and other methods after joining BAIF project.]
• Sarian, Zac B. 2017. DENNIS MIGUEL: Money is not everything. zac b. sarian blog. [Dennis Miguel's reaction to getting the front cover in the Philippines' Agriculture magazine regarding his efforts to break the world SRI record with SRI methods.]
• IICA. 2017. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) project seeks to overcome high costs of labor. IICA website. July 2017. [Weeders and transplanters make SRI easier in Colombia with equipment imported from South Korea by IICA.]
• Delonge, Marcia. 2017. Agroecology to the rescue: 7 ways ecologists are working toward healthier food systems. Union of Concerned Scientists blog. August 2. [Number 5 (Getting more from farming, with less) highlights SRI]
• Tarumitra. 2017. Joining hands for a healthier planet. Tarumitra website. July 12. [250 students from over 10 schools participate in organic rice transplanting (using SRI) at Tarumita Farm, Bihar, India.]
• Parashar, Akshay. 2017. Pak Anggir - The Balinese farmer idol. Tri Hita Karan - Bali website. July 26.
• Parashar, Akshay. 2017. System of Rice Intensification - A triple-win situation. Tri Hita Karan - Bali website. July 22.
• Gray, Denis D. 2017. Can Thailand’s latest ‘superfood’ fortify its struggling farmers? NIKKEI Asian Review. July 29.
• 2017. Enhancing women’s empowerment and livelihood opportunities through collective effort in Khiwli Kala village - Allahabad – A case study of UPSRLM. murad4ali blog. July 20. [Khiwli Kala Village, Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India: About 65 women engaged from 15 SHGs and more than 2.5 hectare land used in SRI intervention.]
• 2017. Organic rice plantation festival. Patna Jesuit Society website. [Student organic (SRI) festival July 11 in Bihar] [accessed July 20, 2017]
• 2017. How rice is made in Madagascar. Chic African Culture website. July 20.
• Rudiana, Pito Agustin. 2017. Di acara panen padi, Anies Baswedan potong bulir masih hijau, Tempo, National section. July 19. [Similar Tempo article]
• Teverow, Phil. 2017. Radical potential. Yolélé website. [A company plans to use SRI methods to grow the fonio grain in West Africa for export to the USA.]
• Candelario, Elizabeth. 2017. After Paris: Why the natural food industry should double down on regenerative organic agriculture. New Hope Network website. July 13. [Lotus Foods, along with others, reduces GHGs by promoting SRI.]
• ACISAI. 2017. Developing sustainable practices among rice farmers, using the System of Rice Intensification principles. International Cooperation and Development (EU) website. July 13. [Story about the SRI-LBM regional SRI project in the Lower Mekong Basin.]
• 2017. Budidaya padi organik dengan metode SRI, panen lebih banyak! alamtani website. July 5. [Indonesian description of organic SRI methods.]
• 2017. Female-led Enterprise & Agribusiness Development. SNV website. July. [.. Climate Smart practices in Vietnam also can include soil conservation efforts like SRI (System of Rice Intensification) that SNV and their EOWE programme advocate for and apply in Vietnam, which in many circumstances may greatly decrease women’s time spent on weeding and other (rice) farming tasks..]
• 2017. Sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods. World Neighbors website. [Description of World Neighbors' programs that cites SRI project in Nepal as an example of their work.] [accessed July 2, 2017]
• Togola, Mamadou. 2017. Agriculture: l’OPIB s’inquiète de la présence de la cécidomyie du riz. Journal Scientifique et Technique du Mali (JSTM) website. June 26. [French article on controlling the African rice gall midge that is affecting rice in Mali. SRI is one of the suggested measures.]
• Damassa, Thomas. 2017. 4 reasons why tackling super pollutants now can bolster the fight against Trump’s anti-climate agenda. The Politics of Poverty blog. June 26. [Reasons to reduce short-term climate pollutants (STCPs), which includes methane.]
• Schiffman, Richard. 2017. Running dry: Seeking solutions to South Asia’s looming water crisis. YaleEnvironment360 website. June 29. [Interview with climatologist Sonali McDermid about water issues in South Asia - She will be studying SRI in Tamil Nadu.]
• 2017? Kingabwa Rice Intensification Project phase II (PIRK II) - 2015-2018. EUCORD website. [Description of a four year project centered on SRI in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Thus far, this USAID-funded EUCORD project has leveled 72 ha of land, installed a water pump for controlled irrigation and trained over 1,200 farmers in SRI and other practices and provided them with technology packets.]
• 2017. SRI: Système de Riziculture Intensive. Tinga Neere website. [Website of the NGO Tinga Neere, which recount four years of work on SRI in Burkina Faso.] [accessed June 29, 2017]
• 2017. Sunria verkiest mensenhanden boven machines. BioJournaal website. June 9. [Emily Sutanto talks about her SRI brand. Sunria, in the Netherlands.]
• 2017. Kendala atau masalah SRI (System of Rice Intensification) bagi petani. SampulPertanian website. June 9, 2017. [Indonesian language description of problems associated with SRI cultivation.]
• Sahu, Krushna Ch. 2017. Better yield with customised rice cultivation. India Water Portal. June 8. [Modified SRI in Kendrapara, Odisha, India]
• Meniano, Sarwell Q. 2017. Samar town to showcase rice planting technologies. metrocebu website. June 8. [Participating firms of Samar rice derby (Samar, Philippines) are SL Agritech, Bayer Crop Science, Syngenta Philippines, Longping Tropical Rice Development, PhilsCAT, DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred and, SeedWorks, PhilRice and, the System of Rice Intensification technology led by DA regional office.]
• Brick, Tricia. 2017. Improving crop resilience and income for rice farmers in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam. Buddhist Global Relief website. June 8. [Together with ICC at (ICC) of Thai Nguyen University, BGR funds supported 200 farmers in 9 villages to attend SRI Farmer Field Schools, trainings and conferences in Northern Vietnam].
• Plummer, Lucy. 2017. A pioneer in climate change action, Odisha will now help others prepare for natural disasters! The Better India website. June 8. [Odisha was one of the first states to begin work on a Climate Change Action Plan in 2009 and in 2010 it officially became the pioneering state. Under the first phase of the plan, several initiatives centered around preparing for a disaster were set in action, including promotion of SRI, livelihood diversification.....]
• Diluxi, Arya. 2017. Research fellow position in DST-SERB project on Modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields @ University of Burdwan. Bioteknika website. May 29. [Recruitment of one Junior Research Fellow (JRF) under DST-SERB Project entitled “Modelling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Paddy Fields through Conventional, System of Rice Intensification and Zero-tillage Practices in Burdwan District, West Bengal, India” in the Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan.]
• Greenaway, Twilight. 2017. Carbon farming and cutting food waste: Climate solutions that don’t require Trump’s buy-in. Cvil Eats website. June 5. [SRI noted as sustainable food production technique in Project Drawdown book review.]
• Bhole, Akshay. 2017. A list of 11 large agriculture CSR projects in India. CSRBox website. May 25. [Adani Foundation helped 1,050 farmers from 35 villages of Tiroda region, to implement SRI, reducing their cultivation costs by 33% and increasing their crop productivities by 51%.]
• 2016. SRI 4 Women (System of Rice Intensification) project. Engim Internazionale website. December 16. [One-Word SILC group in Foredugu, a group comprising only of women, are engaged in SRI and are transplanting (NERICA L19) in their demonstration plot at Foredugu town in Buya Romende Chiefdom pf Sierra Leone.]
• 2017. L’approche agro-écologique SRI fait ses preuves pour la production de riz en Afrique de l’Ouest. CommodAfrica website. May 22.
• Dung, Ngo Tien, and Hoang Van Phu. 2017. The 10 year journey of SRI in Vietnam. SRI in Vietnam blog. [The report was presented at the event "The 10 years Journey of SRI in Vietnam", Thai Nguyen City, September 27 and 28, 2016] [accessed May 19, 2017] [The Vietnamese version of this report was online in 2016.]
• Chu, Will. 2017. Food production can weather the storm, say sustainability project leaders . Food Navigator.com. May 17. [ClimAdapt Project in India
• Gulden, Katherine Torday. 2017. Climate-smart agriculture to ensure a food secure future. Norsk Institutt for Bioøkonomi (NIBIO) website. May 16.
• 2017. Intensive rice culture primer. Worldagriculturesolutions website. [Overview and basic instruction on SRI]
• Apriando, Tommy. 2017. Asa Desa Wlahar Wetan berdaulat pangan organik. Mongabay Indonesia. May 10. [Village in Central Java prospers with organic SRI.]
• Uphoff, Norman. 2017. The System of Rice Intensification’s role in hunger, climate change, and communities. Food Tank. May 9. [Article also in Rice News Today]
• 2017. Precious soils and seeds - Industrial agriculture and climate smart farming. Heinrich Böll Foundation website. May 5. [SRI noted as agroecological approach.]
• Fell, Andy. 2017. Costs and benefits of improving rice yields for farmers in Haiti. Egghead about Research at UC Davis blog. May 3.
• Lomborg, Bjorn. 2017. How agricultural priorities could help Haiti. Huffpost. April 24. (also on Haitian-Truth.org website) [Research by Lybbert and Turiansky show mixed results for SRI in Haiti's Artibonite Valley farmers.]
• 2017. DAI Global's facebook page (April 4, 2107) relates the story of Nerie Princivil (right), an early adopter of SRI, which was introduced to her by the Feed the Future USAID Haiti's (AVANSE) project.
• 2017. AIR spotlight summary on “First International Agro biodiversity Congress”. InsightsIAS website. March 15. [SRI noted in the discussion on the significance of the conference.]
• 2017. More with less: Boosting yields with the System of Rice Intensification. Global Agriculture website. [accessed April 7, 2017]
• Kanitkar, Ajit. 2017. Community resource persons are torchbearers of a resurgent countryside. VillageSquare website. April 5.
• Pulla, Priyanka. 2017. Study shows eating red meat, small dietary changes can help India’s water crisis. Factor Daily website. April 5. ["For example, the campaign to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables in the UK even after a decade. A better option, say water researchers, would be to push for better farming practices such as drip irrigation or SRI, which cut water usage."]
• Rosenzweig, Nancy, and Michael Whelchel. 2017. Lotus Foods: Changing the world one grain of rice at a time. Triple Pundit website. April 4. [An interview with Caryl Levine about corporate responsibility and Lotus Foods' commitment to SRI.]
• Solomon, Philippa. 2017. How farmers can help reduce famine. Capital Press. March 23. ["In the long term we also need to support the spread of improved cultivation techniques such as the system of rice intensification (SRI) and to reduce and manage the risks from warming of the global climate."]
• 2017. Efficient rice farming to curb emissions. CUBIRD.com website. March 18. [To achieve 15-20%r eduction in GHGs by 2020, Director or MARD's Institute for Agricultural Environment plans to use SRI.]
• 2017. Replacing chemicals with agroecology increases Cambodian farmers’ income by four-folds. PAN Asia Pacific blog. March 18.
• Sarian, Zac B. 2017. Dennis Miguel: Set to establish record yield in rice. zac b. sarian blog. March 8.
• 2017. Women in agricultural development: the challenging task of coordinating multilateral didn’t really change food habit collaboration. IICA website. March 8. [Includes a section on Kelly Witkowski, an agriculture and climate change specialist with IICA, who coordinates an Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) project focusing on validating SRI in Colombia and the Dominican Republic.]
• SNV. 2017. Let’s get to work - Building a food secure future. SNV website. March. [Between 2016 and 2020 SNV, a Dutch NGO, is upscaling the uptake of SRI in Vietnam under the ‘Enhancing Opportunities for Women’s Enterprises’ programme. this was highlighted at an Regional Food Security Conference put on by the Govt.s of the Netherlands and Vietnam on March 22-23, in Hanoi, Vietnam]
• 2017. Natural Agriculture Rice Paddy School is looking for participants 自然農田んぼ塾参加者募集 . allevents.in website. [The Natural Agriculture Rice Field School in Tsuchiura, Japan, is looking for participants for their season-long SRI trials with nine varieties. Opening session is April 22, 2017 [accessed March 1, 2017]
• Hufstader, Chris. 2017. Sparking a rice revolution. Oxfam America website. March 7. [Story of a Vietnamese SRI farmer.]
• 2017. Harvest time For SRI project. Kiulu Farmstay website. February 7. [An ecotour farm in Sabah, Malaysia, shares its SRI project.] (accessed March 7, 2017]
• Tyagi, Abhishek. 2017. High yielding variety to boost agriculture production. Uttaranchal (P.G.) College of Bio-Medical Sciences website. March 6. [HYV's good, but also SRI methods!]
• 2017. Orasi Ilmiah Gubes ITB Irda Fidrianny & Mubiar Purwasasmita – Terobosan SDA Indonesia, Apa Kabar? Destinasianews.com website. February 25. [ITB professors talk about paying more attention to natural resources and note SRI as a positive step.]
• 2017? Getting more from less: System of Rice Intensification. Source Trace website. [accessed February 22, 2017]
• Leinau, Steve. 2017. Six Publications that tell the stories and possibilities of SRI. Earth Links website. February 22.
• Dial, Saër 2017. Autosuffisance en riz en 2017: La campagne de contre saison démarre plus tôt que prévu à Matam pour atteindre l’objectif fixé. Lactuacho.com website. February 20. [Article from the Matam region of Senegal. President of one of the producers' unions in Kanel department pledges to get 12 tons/ha with SRI.]
• 2017? Pertanian padi. Everyone is Number One website. [Rice planting article that recommends SRI. In Indonesian.]
• 2017. "We Do Things Differently" – the outsiders rebooting our world. EcoHustler website. February 8. [Announcing Mark Stevenson's new book We Do Things Differently, which a has section on SRI.]
• 2017? Capacity building and technology intervention - Chhattisgarh Agricon Samiti. Chhattisgarh Agricon Samiti website. [accessed February 3, 2-17] [Description of a 3-year SRI project in Durg, Chhattisgarh, in which farmers made 40%-200% yield increase with the highest yield of 87.5 q/ha.]
• Essar Foundation. 2017. A panorama of possibilities. Essar website. January 25. [Introduction SRI and SWI are planned by Essar Foundation for Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh.]
• Otarra, Cheenee. 2017. Agrea: The next sexy thing. Taste blog. January 18. [Article on Cherrie Atilano from the NGO AGREA PH in Marinduque, Philippines. AGREA uses SRI in their programs.]
• Lotus Foods. 2017. Lotus Foods specialty rice to promote climate- and women-smart rice production. PR Newswire website. January 19.
• 2017. धान उत्पादन की ‘एस आर आई (SRI) पद्धति’ (SRI paddy production method). IFCCO website. January 27. [Hindi article by the Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative (IFFCO) on the benefits of SRI]
• Adellia, Dhea. 2017. Budidaya padi organik dengan metode SRI. Pengetahuan_BLOG. January 17. [Simple SRI instructions in Indonesian.]
• 2016. Organic-Based System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - Philippines. WOCAT website. March 17. [Description of an organic SRI project the incorporates ducks for weed control. The project is part of Caritas' Sustainable Learning Agricultural Farm in Marabut, Samar, Philippines.] [accessed January 16, 2017]
• 2017. Social network, referrals and technology adoption: Randomized field experiments using System of Rice Intensification (SRI). International Growth Centre (IGC) website. January. [IGC Bangladesh will have a meeting Jan. 15 to disseminate study findings.]
• Piro, Patrick. 2017. En Indonésie, une riziculture écologique et deux fois plus productive pour les paysans. CCFD-Terre Solidaire website.[In Sadono, Yogyakarta region, Indonesia, rice fields converted five years ago to SRI, produce 8-12 tons/ha compared to 4 to 5 t/ha before.] [Accessed Jan. 31, 2017]
• 2017. Managing drought: Prof M S Swaminathan. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation website. [SRI included in MSSRF water security system for Tamil Nadu, India.]

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Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - acquired during 2017
(listed in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
- Red dot (•) indicates article is freely available

• Islam, Mokidul. 2014. Productivity and socio-economic impact of system of rice intensification and integrated crop management over conventional methods of rice establishment in eastern Himalayas, India. Paddy and Water Environment 12(1): 193–202. [accessed January 4, 2018]
• • Reddy, P. Maheswara, et al. 2017. Response of machine transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.) to different nitrogen and phosphorus levels during Rabi. 6(12): 2683-2688. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.612.310 [accessed January 3, 2018]
• Oo, Aung Zaw, et al. 2018. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from conventional and modified rice cultivation systems in South India. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 252: 148-158 (Online 15 January 2018). doi:10.1016/j.agee.2017.10.014 [SRI conditions in this article are called "YW-AWD"] [accessed January 3, 2018]
• • Hasanah, Nur Aini Iswati, Budi Indra Setiawan, Chusnul Arif, and Slamet Widodo. 2017. Muka air optimum pada System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Jurnal Irigasi 12(1): 55-64. [accessed January 3, 2018]
• Ghoshal, Riya, Anindita Saha, and Debabrata Basu. 2017. Social impact of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Journal of Interacademicia 21(3): 282-286 ref.8. [accessed January 3, 2017]
• • Sarkar, M.A.R., S.K. Paul, and U. Pau. 2017. Effect of water and weed management in Boro rice (cv. BRRI dhan28) in Bangladesh. Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science 2(4): 325-329. doi: 10.26832/24566632.2017.020414 [accessed December 31, 2017]
• • Nakano, Y., Y. Tanaka, and K. Otsuka. 2017. Impact of training on the intensification of rice farming: evidence from rainfed areas in Tanzania. Agricultural Economics Accepted Author Manuscript. December 18, 2017. [accessed December 31, 2017]
• • Yadav, Rahul, and Thomas Abraham. 2017. Agronomic performance of rice (Oryza sativa L.) as affected by planting system, date of transplanting, source and dose of nitrogen. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 6(8): 387-394. [accessed December 31, 2017]
• Bikash, Sarkar, et al. 2017. Comparative performance of manual weeders under system of rice intensification in Indo-Gangetic plains. Indian Journal of Weed Science 49(1): 82-84. doi: 10.5958/0974-8164.2017.00020.X [accessed December 31, 2017]
• • Suhastyo, Arum Asriyanti, and Bondan Hary Setiawan. 2017. Aplikasi pupuk cair mol pada tanaman padi metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification). Agritech : Jurnal Fakultas Pertanian 19(1): 26-34. [accessed December 31, 2017]
• • Hasanah, Nur Aini Iswati, Budi Indra Setiawan, Masaru Mizoguchi, Gary Robert Sands, Chusnul Arif and Slamet Widodo. 2017. Triangle graphs development for estimating methane and nitrous oxide gases emission from the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 10(4): 206-214. doi:10.3923/jest.2017.206.214 [accessed December 31, 2017]
• • Rk, Rajesh Krisnan. 2017. Corroborating the ecological and economic sustainability of SRI in changing climate. Journal of agrometeorology 29(special issue): 303-307.
• • Kumari, Tulike, and O. P. Singh. 2016. Factors favour the adoption of SRI system of paddy cultivation and problems in its adoption in Gumla district of Jharkhand. IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science 21(11): 53-55. [accessed December 31, 2017]
• • Dhakal, Bishal, et al. 2017. Productivity assessment of drought tolerant rice cultivars under different crop management practices in Central Terai of Nepal. International Journal of Environmental & Agriculture Research 3(10): 20-25. [accessed December 31, 2017]
• • Thapa, Shobit, et al. 2017. Influence of fertilizers and rice cultivation methods on the abundance and diversity of phyllosphere microbiome. Journal of Basic Microbiology 1-15 (e-pub ahead of print). [accessed December 31, 2017]
• Sowmyalatha, B. S. 2017. Influence of seedling age on growth and yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under mechanized system of rice intensification (MSRI). Journal of Progressive Agriculture 8(20): 40-45. [accessed December 31, 2017]
• Poerwanto, Mofit Eko, and Oktavia Sarhesti Padmini. 2017. Impact of “System of Rice Intensification” on the abundance of rice pests, In: Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Tropical Agriculture, pp. 153-161. Springer Link. [accessed December 31, 2017]
• Shahane, A. A. et al. 2013. Influence of cyanobacterial inoculants and planting methods on nutrient uptake of rice (Oryza sativa) and soil chemical properties. Indian Journal of Agronomy 58 (4): 123-126 [accessed December 31, 2017]
• 2017. Strategies for survival. Nature Plants 3: 907. doi:10.1038/s41477-017-0081-x [editorial that includes SRI]
• Rao, K.V.R., et al. 2018. Energy assessment of rice under conventional and drip Irrigation systems. In: Singh, V., Yadav S., Yadav R. (eds), Water Resources Management. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 78. Springer, Singapore [accessed December 31, 2017]
• Ingabire, C. et al. 2013. Rice Intensification System (SRI): Awareness and adoption in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. Presentation at the Conference on Confronting challenges of food insecurity and poverty in the era of climate change and variability, August 2013, Rwanda. [accessed Dec. 3, 2017]
• • Praneeth, S., et al. 2017. Comparison of leaf growth in different crop establishment methods with nitrogen management practices. International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience 5940: 1376-1381. doi: 10.18782/2320-7051.5390 [accessed November 2017]
• Swati, Sagar. 2016. Molecular analysis of ammonia-oxidising microorganisms in rice microbiome. M.Sc. thesis. Indian Agricultural Research Institute. [accessed November 2017]
• Mohapatra, Sagar. 2017. A study of socio-economic analysis of adoption and dissemination of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Chhattisgarh. MBA thesis, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (Odisha, India) (43 p.) [accessed November 2017]
• Vibhute, Sagar, et al. 2017. Comparative evaluation of water budgeting parameters under different rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation methods. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 9(3): 1373-1380. [accessed November 2017]
• Majumder, Saddam Hossen, et al. 2017. A comparative economics of SRI with conventional method of rice cultivation in Tripura. International Journal of Plant Sciences (Muzaffarnagar) 12(2): 240-242. [accessed November 2017]
• Sahu, Ekamra Ranjan. 2017. A study on socio-economic analysis of adoption and dissemination of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Bihar. MBA thesis, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (Odisha, India) (42 p.) [accessed November 2017]
• • Harding, S. S. et al. 2017. Assessing the suitability and profitability of the system of rice intensification (SRI) methodology under farmers’ circumstances in Sierra Leone. Agronomie Africaine 29(1): 41-52. [accessed November 2017]
• • Adhikari, Prabhakar, et al. 2017. System of crop intensification for more productive, resource-conserving, climate-resilient, and sustainable agriculture: experience with diverse crops in varying agroecologies. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (Online first Nov. 20, 2017) 1-28. [accessed November 2017]
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New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media) (2017)
(see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads below for new material on our site).

• Zotoglo, Kokou, and Djiguiba Kouyaté. 2011. Manuel de formation Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). USAID website. (14p. pdf) [French language SRI manual by USAID/Afrique de l’Ouest and USAID/Mali [accessed January 4, 2018]
• Mendoza, Díddier A. Moreira. 2017. Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo del Arroz (SRI) Produciendo más con menos en un clima cambiante. FONTAGRO website. (44p, 9.6MB pdf) [Guía para el establecimiento y monitoreo del cultivo de arroz bajo la metodología del SRI] [This is the Dominican Republic version of using and monitoring SRI] [accessed January 2, 2018]
• Mendoza, Díddier A. Moreira. 2017. Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo del Arroz (SRI) Produciendo más con menos en un clima cambiante. FONTAGRO website. (44p, 9.6MB pdf) [Guía para el establecimiento y monitoreo del cultivo de arroz bajo la metodología del SRI] [This is the Colombian version of using and monitoring SRI] [accessed December 31, 2017]
• 2017. Case Study: System of Millet Intensification (SMI) farmers from Nuapada felicitated by member of Parliament. WASSAN website. December 7. (2p. pdf)
• 2017 (second edition). "Climate-smart crop production systems in practice" module B1-3.1, Climate Smart Agriculture Sourcebook. FAO website. [See section 3 download] [accessed November 22, 2017]
• Witkowski, Kelly. 2017. Triangular cooperation through financial support provided by developed countries/multilateral organizations, pp. 14-16, In Compilation of Good Practices, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change website. [accessed November 8, 2017]
• Uphoff, Norman. 2016. Sistema de Intensificación del Cultivo de Arroz (SRI): Completo Respuestas a Preguntas Frecuentes. IICA Inforagro.net website. (220p pdf) [Traducido por el IICA.] [ A Spanish translation by the Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) of Uphoff's book The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - Responses to Frequently Asked Questions.] [accessed November 1, 2017]
• Purwasasmita, Mubiar, and Alik Sutaryat. 2017. Buku padi SRI organik Indonesia. Berkahnandur website. [Indonesian language manual on organic SRI production. Cost: Rp. 75,000]
• Bhatt, K. N., and Pradeep Bhargava. 2017. System of Rice Intensification. Studium Press: New Delhi. [The book is not yet available online. Please contact K. N. Bhatt or Studium Press to obtain a copy] [accessed October 17, 2017]
• Ouedraogo, Ibrahima, et al. 2016. Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). PAPSA website. [French language manual from the Institut de L'environnement et de la Recherche Agricole (I.N.E.R.A.) in Burkina Faso] [accessed October 18, 2017]
• Arif, Chusnul, Budi Indra Setiawan, and Sutardi. 2017. Pedoman Awal Aplikasi SRI di Lapangan. IPB Press: Bogor. 80p. [Indonesian SRI field manual. Contact chusnulipb@gmail.com to acquire a copy] [accessed October 2017]
• Uphoff, Norman. 2016. Developments in the system of rice intensification (SRI), In Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 2 Cultivation, pest and disease management. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited: Cambridge. [accessed October 11, 2017]
• Chapagain, Tejendra. 2017. The System of Rice Intensification and Conventional Rice Farming: Responding to Crop Growth, Yield and Water Productivity. Nova Science Publishers (online). (US$73.80)
• AIT. 2016. Farmer's Congress and National Review and Planning Workshop Suanpa Resort, Surin Province, Thailand, June 23-24, 2016. SRI-LMB website. (26 p. pdf) [Report on a workshop associated with 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) project.]
• Tu Anh, Tran. 2017. Women's economic empowerment in Quy Hau Agriculture Cooperative. SNV website. [Factsheet about Women's economic opportunities, including SRI, in Quang Binh Province for the Enhancing Opportunities for Women's Enterprises (FLO/EOWE) Project.]
• SRI-LMB. 2017. SRI-LMB Newsletter 5(1): 1-6. [Biannual newsletter published by the SRI-LMB Project, Asian Center of Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (ACISAI), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). National and Regional workshops are highlighted in this edition.]
• Ravandale, Seema, Vinod Niranjan, and Debashish Sen. 2017. Building climate resilience. LEISA INDIA 19(2): 5-9. June. [Issue on climate change and ecological approaches. Article is on SRI and SCI in the Bundelkhand region of Madyha Pradesh, India.]
• Mysore, Ashwin. 2017. Workshop Report: Second Regional Review and Planning Workshop, 23-25 April 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam. SRI-LMB website. June. (72p. pdf) [Workshop report about the project on Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin.]
• Othman, Zakirah, and Quamrul Hasan. 2016. "Sustainable Agriculture through Organic Farming: A Case in Paddy Farming in Peninsular Malaysia," pp 38-50, In Focus on Environment. AIMST University, Malaysia. [accessed May 2017]
• 2017. Food: System of Rice Intensification. Project Drawdown website. [This from the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken and published in April. It is the culmination of a multi-year effort of scientists and experts from around the world to identify, research and model the 100 most important solutions to reverse global warming by 2050.] [accessed May 10, though it went into the April newsletter.]
• Uphoff, Norman, Zhang Yu Quan, and Shan Lu Yong Si. 2017. 稻作革命SRI (System of Rice Intensification). [Chinese language version of Norman Uphoff's 2016 book "The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - Responses to Frequently Asked Questions"] [Check various sites for varying prices.] [accessed February 16, 2017]
• 2016. System of Rice Intensification. Sekolah Pertani website. [Indonesian language online farmer education course.] [accessed February 28, 2017]
• MAZAO. 2017. MAZAO Newsletter, January 2017. MAZAO website. [accessed January 26, 2017] [SRI progress in Mazao's DR Congo site.]
• 2016. SRI-LMB Newsletter 4(1): 1-8. (December 2016) [accessed January 19, 2017]
• Hufstader, Chris. 2017. Sparking a rice revolution. Oxfam Impact, Winter 2017 edition, Oxfam website. [Fundraising piece about farmers in Vietnam training their neighbors in SRI methods.]
• Radha, T. M. 2016. One man mission – A farmer educator spreads agroecology. LEISA India 18(4): 22-24. December issue [Story of Pradeep Kumar, a middle school headmaster and farmer who has been spreading SRI and other agroecology techniques in Odisha since 2000.]

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Recent Documents Uploaded on our Website (2017) (Includes new pages added to the SRI-Rice website)

• Fisher, Lucy. 2017. Monthly additions to the SRI-Rice website. (October 2017) New pages on the SRI-Rice website. [uploaded monthly]
• Phu, Hoang Van. 2017. SRI implementation results by members of Vietnam SRI Network 2016-2017. SRI-Rice website (3p. pdf) [uploaded November] 2017
• 2017. Informe segundo intercambio regional: Avances cons SRI en las Américas [Read online (slideshare.net). Also, 15MB hi-res download version; or 5MB download version without posters]. SRI-Rice website. (50p., 4MB pdf) [Document about a regional workshop related to the Proyecto Cultivar más con menos: Adaptación, validación y promoción del Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI) en las Américas como una respuesta al cambio climático. The workshop was held October 10-12 in Ibagué, Colombia.] [uploaded November 9, 2017]
• Fisher, Lucy. 2017. Monthly additions to the SRI-Rice website. (October 2017) New pages on the SRI-Rice website. [uploaded monthly]
• Uphoff, Norman. 2017. Publications on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) by Norman Uphoff. SRI-Rice website. June 4. (8p, 226KB pdf)
• Uphoff, Norman. 2017. Review of presentations by Norman Uphoff on SRI, 1997-present. SRI-Rice website. May 24.
• Julius, Fieshi. 2016. SRI COOPBOD / Barudev Initiative in Rural Development: Introducing a Learning-by-Practicing Method (LbPM) on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) [Training by SRI COOPBOD (Ndop) Conducted at Mbueni-Njinikom Sub Division, Boyo Division, North West Region, Cameroon, Nov. 29 – Dec. 2, 2016] [uploaded May 2017]
• Styger, Erika. 2017. Improving and Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in West Africa Key results of SRI-WAAPP Project’s 1st phase (2014-2016). SRI-Rice website. (2p., 586 KB pdf) [uploaded April 14, 2017]
• Kabir, Humayun. 2014. A successful case of enhancing agriculture productivity through IPM/FFS. SRI-Rice website. (1p., 121KB pdf) [Case study of FAO IPM Farmer Field School (FFS) in Khasapaz village of Dehdadi district in Balk Province that is carrying out SWI]. [Uploaded April 5, 2017]
• Kabir, Humayun. 2014. A new hope to revolutionize wheat cultivation in Afghanistan. SRI-Rice website. (1p., 518KB pdf) [Case study of FAO IPM Farmer Field School (FFS) in Teemtak village of Kalafgan district in Takhar Province that is carrying out SWI]. [Uploaded April 5, 2017]
• Hameed, Khidhir Abbas. 2017. 2016 thesis on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is awarded master’s degree for the first time in Iraq. SRI-Rice website. [Summary of a thesis by Laith Hassouni from Baghdad University.] [uploaded January 26, 2017]
• Hassouni, Laith Naeem. 2016. Effects of irrigation scheduling and the application of organic matter on rice yield under the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Master's thesis, Baghdad University (Iraq). (153 p., 4.86MB pdf) [accessed January 23, 2017]
• Bimba, Robert. 2017. The Japanese Rice Grant Project: Economic recovery of Liberian rice farmers in Ebola-affected counties --Status report November 2016 – January 15, 2017. SRI-Rice website. (report of a rice project financed by the Japanese Govt. to extend rice production in five countries in [uploaded January 18, 2017]
• Oxfam. 2016. Learning from System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Haiti. SRI-Rice website. December 8. (2p., 337KB pdf) [Document prepared for Oxfam SRI Conference in Haiti, Dec. 2016.] [uploaded January 15, 2017]
• Oxfam. 2016. Apprendre du Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI) en Haïti. SRI-Rice website. December 8. (2p., 345KB pdf) [French language document prepared for Oxfam SRI Conference in Haiti, Dec. 2016.] [uploaded January 15, 2017]
• Fulford, Mark. 2014. Another SCI: A System of Carrot Intensification. SRI-Rice website. November. [uploaded January 15, 2017]
• Fisher, Lucy. 2017. Monthly additions to the SRI-Rice website. (January 2017, December 2016) New pages on the SRI-Rice website. [uploaded monthly]

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Videos / Audiofiles (2017) (either uploaded by SRI-Rice OR linked to from our website)

• Audio: 2017 (December 29). 북에 신농법 전수 미 NGO, 여행금지 후 첫 방북 (NGOs to transfer new farming methods to North Korea). 2:09 minutes. Radio Free Asia website. [Korean article and audio clip by Radio Free Asia on the NGO AFSC's continuing efforts to promote SRI in the DPRK.]
• Video: 2017 (December 16). Ayoo Beralih Ke Padi Organik..Seperti Desa Suka Makmur. 2:48 min. sukma aldino channel, YouTube. [Indonesian language TV clip about organic SRI in Sumatera Selatan, where SRI has been practiced since 2009.]
• 2017 (December 8). 節水栽種 SRI (System of Rice Intensification水稻強化栽培系統)~台大名譽教授甘俊二老師解說. 1:27 min. Kim S. Blades channel, YouTube.
• Video: 2017 (December 5). Metro Pagi Prime Time - Panen Raya Padi SRI bersama RITX. 1 min. RiTX Indonesia, YouTube. [Indonesian language TV clip about SRI project in NTT province, Indonesia.]
• Video: 2016 (February 11). How to get 100 tones Sugarcane/Acre- Mr. Suresh Kabade. 5:40 min. Navnit Patel channel, YouTube. [Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI in Maharashtra)] [accessed December 13, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (December 4). Vistazo Agropecuario no. 236. 28:30 (The first 9 minutes is about the 2nd Regional Workshop on SRI in the Americas). Vistazo Agropecuario channel, YouTube.
• Video: 2017 (November 13). Modified System of Wheat Intensification in Punjab Hoshiarpur. 1:37 min. ashokknandania channel, YouTube.
• Video: 2017 (November 13). Modified System of Wheat Intensification in Punjab Hoshiarpur2. 0:46 min. ashokknandania channel, YouTube.
• Video: 2017. (November 3). BPI Sinag Finalist: ZIDOFA. 0.57 min. BPI Sinag Facebook.
• Video: 2017 (November 2). Teknologi Tani untuk Ketahanan Pangan & Perubahan Iklim. 6:09 min. CNN Indonesia channel, YouTube. [SRI helps farmers adapt to climate change in NTT, Indonesia]
• Video: 2017 (October 27). Dengan metode SRI hasil panen padi meningkat. 2:39 min. Iqbal comel molek channel, YouTube. [Metro Pagi Primetime TV show]
• Video: 2017 (October 21). System of Mustard Intensification SMI in Punjab - Sowing. 1:57 min. ashokknandania channel. YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (October 21). System of Mustard Intensification SMI in Punjab - Marking. 1:57 min. ashokknandania channel. YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
• Video: 2014 (December 1). Increase wheat production through SRI method 6:18 min. Pradesh18 English channel. YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
• Video: 2016 (November 9.) श्री विधि से गेहूं की बुवाई, Sowing of Wheat With SRI Method IN HINDI. 6:59 min. Digital kheti channel, YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (October 2). Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice, Volume 2 - Chapter 7. 2:07 min. Rob Burleigh channel, YouTube. [Introduction to book chapter by N. Uphoff on SRI.]
• Video: 2017 (September 20). Can What You Eat Help Fight Climate Change? Wochit News channel, YouTube. [SRI noted as one way to fight climate change]
• Video: 2017 (September 17). Power weeder using in SRI paddy Thotapalli cluster jattu trust. 1:45 min. king gopi channel, YouTube.
• Video: 2017 (September 12). SRI method of rice cultivation. 2:39 min. anup gupta channel, YouTube. [Hindi language SRI overview]
• Video: 2017 (September 7). SRI method of rice cultivation in Odia. 12:27 min. Malpaku Productions channel, YouTube. [repost of an earlier Digital Green video explaining SRI in Odisha]
• Video: 2017 (September 4). SRI paddy success story. 0:58 min. Tanvee Films Patna channel, YouTube. [from Patna, India]
• Video: 2017 (July 30). Water Management and Weeding in SRI. 10.03 min. digitalgreen channel, YouTube. [Indian language video] [accessed September 13, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (August 1). System of Rice Intensification-II _Andhra Pradesh_Digital green_East Godavari_Andhrapradesh. 9:28 min. digitalgreen channel, YouTube. [Indian language video of SRI in Andhra Pradesh, India]
• Video: 2017 (August 21). Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo del Arroz. 14:24 min. IICA noticias channel, YouTube. [Proyecto “Cultivar más con menos: Adaptación, Validación y Promoción del Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI) en las Américas como una respuesta al cambio climático”, en República Dominicana.]
• Video: 2017 (August 21). Cultivar más con menos. 7:09 min. IICA noticias channel, YouTube. [Nota técnica sobre el Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI), para la sección de la Federación Nacional de Arroceros (FEDEARROZ) de Colombia en el programa “Vistazo Agropecuario”, del canal TVAgro.]
• Video: 2017 (August 12). Farmers view about System of Rice intensification (SRI) in Bangladesh. Tanvir Shatil channel, YouTube. [Farmer interviews from from an RCT-based project on Technology Adoption and Food Security in Rural Bangladesh.]
• Video: 2017 (August 1). 10 Water Management and Weeding in SRI Rice 3. 9:51 min. digitalgreen channel, YouTube. [Indian language]
• Video: 2017 (June 8). AWD/SRI for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production. 1:2-:43 min. Produced by the Water in Agriculture Global Solutions Group, World Bank. [Video of the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series webinar on Alternative Wetting and Drying (AWD) and the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Techniques for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production.] [accessed July 2017]
• Video: 2017 (July 20). FIDA: Le projet PNSADR-IM avec le Système de Riziculture Intensive SRI. 5:59 min. Ikiriho News channel, YouTube. [Newscast about an IFAD-sponsored program with SRI in Burundi]
• Video: 2017 (July 25). Water Management of Crops SRI and its Components by Prof Aftab Zaman. 14:25 min. CUTM Odisha channel, YouTube. [Lecture at Centurion University, Odisha, India]
• Video: 2013 (June 9). SRI Pilipinas, isinusulong ang organic rice farming sa bansa. 0.41 min. PTV channel, YouTube. [Tagalog TV clip about SRI in the Philippines.] [accessed July10, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (July 5). Marking of Seedling Distances using marker for SRI method. 1:54. Green Foundation channel, YouTube.
• Video: 2017 (June 15). Intensive Rice System - Systeme Rizicole Intensif. 4:07 (SRI section begins at minute 1:47). africanews channel, YouTube. [Business Africa TV program talks about SRI in Burundi] [A French translation is available on the French Africa News website.]
• Video: 2017 (May 30). System of Rice Intensification SRI in Himachal Transplantation. 1:47 min. ashokknandania channel, YouTube.
(Transplanting demo in Himachal, India)
• Video: 2016 (September 10). SRI in Rice Sarbjit Singh. 4:25 min. Punjab Staae Seeds Corporation LTD channel, YouTube. [accessed July 2, 2017]
• Video: 2014. (July 28). ស្រែម៉ាប់ និងស្វិត Mab & Svet Peddy Fields. 27 min. មណ្ឌលព័ត៌មាន ស្ត្រីកម្ពុជា (Women's Media Centre of Cambodia) channel, YouTube. [Drama by Cambodian farmers about SRI produced by the Women's Media Centre in conjuntion with Oxfam and other partners.] [accessed July 2, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (June 4). SRI, অধিক ধান উৎপাদন করতে কিভাবে বীজ তলা করতে হয়, কিভাবে চারা রোপন করতে হয়, কখন কি সার দিতে হয়? 6:08 min. Md. Bayezid Moral channel, YouTube. [Bengali language instructional discussion from Bangladesh].
• Videos: 2017 (May 30). Five short SRI instructional videos from India on the ashokknandania channel (YouTube)
  1) System of Rice Intensification SRI in Punjab Conoweeder application. 0.21 min.
  2) System of Rice Intensification in Punjab Uprooting Nursery for Transplantation. 0.25 min.
  3) System of Rice Intensification SRI in Punjab Transplantation 3. 0.23 min.
  4) System of Rice Intensification SRI in Himachal Transplantation 2. 1:07 min.
  5) System of Rice Intensification SRI in Punjab -2 Nursery Sowing. 1:11 min.
• Video: 2017 (May 9, 2017). SRI (Systemic Rice Intensification in Paddy) Bed Preparation_DoAg&DigitalGreen_April-2016. 9:15 min.digitalgrenorg channel, YouTube.
• Video: 2017 (May 5). Témoignage sur l'utilisation du SRI à Madagascar _avril2017. 5:15 min. [French language video on the SRI work of the NGO Codegaz and their partner GCD in Madagascar]
• Video: Système de Riziculture Intensive : Le programme de Codegaz à Madagascar. 4:38 min. CODEGAZ communauté channel, YouTube. [French language video on the SRI work of the NGO Codegaz and their partner GCD in Madagascar]
• Video: 2017 (May 4). UC Davis Professor Travis Lybbert speaks on improving rice yields in Haiti. 5:32 min. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Assets, YouTube. [Results of a study in an Oxfam project in the Artibonite Valley in Haiti.]
• Video: 2017 (May 4). S. S. I. cultivation cultivation in sugar cane. 17:14 min. pasumai vivashayam channel, YouTube. [Tamil language video on the Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative, based on SRI principles.]
• Video: 2017 (May 3). Lung Sai doubled his harvest. 1:10 min. Partners Relief & Development channel, YouTube. [Results of a 2014 Partners in Relief & Development project to train farmers in Shan state in Myanmar in SRI.]
• Video: 2017 (May 3). S R I method of rice cultivation (In TAMIL) . 11:38 min. pasumai vivashayam channel, YouTube. [Tamil language video on SRI methods.]
• Video: 2017 (May 3). SRI LMB developing a more intelligent pathway for sustainable rice intensification. 7:59 min. SRI LMB channel, YouTube. [The AIT is implementing an EU-financed project entitled: “Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin”. The objective is to enhance resilience of rainfed small-scale farmers of Lower Mekong region confronting climate change.]
• Video: 2016 (April 22). Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI). 19:06 min. Produced by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. raja mani channel, YouTube. [accessed April 30, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (April 27). How Lotus Foods achieves more crop per drop. 3:11 min. New Hope Network website. [Interview with Lotus Foods' Ken Lee about SRI at the Expo West 2017]
• Video: 2017 (March 22). FAO, Tanzania Govt train 150 youth farmers in rice farming, life skills. 2:22 min. Emmanuel Kihaule channel, YouTube. [Swahili language ITV program explains that 150 youth have been trained in SRI and the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) approach under the Partnership for Sustainable Rice System Development in Africa project, financed by the Government of Venezuela through FAO under South South Cooperation and is implemented by the Government of United Republic of Tanzania through Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries.]
• Video: 2017, (March 2). Natural rice farming methods brings more profit. 1:10 min. News7 Tamil channel, YouTube. [Tamil language TV show.]
• Video: 2017 (March 8). Climate Smart Rice Production. 2:39 min. LotusFoodsInc channel, YouTube. [Lotus Foods is supporting the first-ever Climate Day, Wednesday, March 8, at Natural Products Expo West, the largest natural foods trade show in the U.S.]
• Video: 2017 (February 17). NHK World Japan. 28:09 min. Khmer Farmer channel, YouTube.[Video about Yang Saing Koma, CEDAC, and SRI in Cambodia.] [accessed March 7, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (March 5). Adoption of SRI and Bio-Pesticides in Rice. 1:40 min. MyAgriGuru channel, YouTube. [AgriAwards 2013 winner in India.]
• Video: 2016 (November 16). Project Compassion 2017 - Dinia from the Philippines. 5:23 min. caritasaustralia channel, YouTube. [Story about a woman from Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines, who is part of a Caritas Australia, project that includes SRI.] [accessed March 6, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (March 1). Semoir Phillipin. 3:12 min. Khadidia Ba channel. YouTube. [WAAPP/CNRA video on the production/use of the drum seeder video in Mali. French.]
• Video: 2017 (March 1). Riziculture Intensive. 3:04 min. Khadidia Ba channel. YouTube. [WAAPP/CNRA SRI video from Mali. French.]
• Video: 2017 (February 7). Animasi 2D Metode Tanam Padi SRI (System of Rice Intensification). 5:34 min. Bakti Raharjo channel, YouTube. [Animation of SRI methods in Bahasa Indonesia.]
• Video: 2017 (January 5). ASEAN's Next Generation Leaders (ANGeLs) - EP2: Cherri Atilano. 23:53 min. Channel NewsAsia, Toggle website. [Video about Cherri Atilano, founder of AGREA an NGO on the island of Marinduque.] [accessed February 16, 2017]
• Video: 2017 (February 14). Liberia Boosts Its Rice Production. 4:47 min. CNN channel. YouTube. [A CNN production about those who are promoting local rice production and sales, including the CHAP, an NGO promoting SRI.]
• Video: 2017 (February 6).উন্নত পদ্ধতিতে ধান চাষাবাদ, অধিক ধান উৎপাদনে SRI, Improved methods of rice cultivation. Part 1, 6:19 min., Part 2, 4:13 min.; Part 3, 9:51 min. AT channel, YouTube. [Bengali language SRI information, Bangladesh]
• Video: 2017 (February 5). Système Riziculture Intensif - SRI. 7:37 min. Filmotion Haiti channel, YouTube. [Creole language video produced by Oxfam and UC Davis about a workshop to deliver the results of a UCD research project on SRI.]
• Video: 2017 (January 23). Pelatihan Menanam Padi Metode S.R.I | Inilah Cara Menanam Padi SRI | System Of Rice Intensification. 13:39 min. Johan Agro channel, YouTube. [Demonstration in Imogiri Bantul in the Yogyakarta Special Region in Indonesia.].
• Video: 2017 (January 10). Lotus Foods Sustainability Award. 2:56 min. Lotus Foods channel, YouTube. [Lotus Foods talks about their commitment to SRI methods in sourcing rice.]
• Video: 2017 (January 10). System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 13.04 min. GWPSoutheastAsia channel, YouTube. [Indonesian video focused on GHGs, SRI and climate change. Bahasa Indonesia video with English subtitles.]

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Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - 2017 acquisitions

• Shah, Tavseef Mairaj. 2017. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with Intercropping. 18 slides. November. CCAFS/CGIAR channel, Slideshare website. [Presentation for the Climate Food and Farming (CLIFF) Network] [accessed December 21, 2017]
• 2017. Eleven SRI country poster presentations at the Segundo intercambio regional: Avances cons SRI en las Américas, October 10-12 in Ibagué, Colombia. (Spanish)
  Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Global
  
• Uphoff, Norman. 2017. Demonstrated Opportunities to Raise Agricultural Production with Water-Saving and with Climate-Change Resilience. 60 slides. Presented at the Cornell University Brown bag lunch with Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA, Washington DC, November 6, 2017.
• Thakur, Amod K., K.G. Mandal, R.K. Mohanty and S.K. Ambast 2017. Impacts of cultivation practices and water management in the post-vegetative stage on rice grain yield and water productivity. 17 slides. Presented by Amod Thakur at the International Annual Meetings of ASA-CSSA-SSSA on ‘Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future’, Tampa, Florida, October 22-25.
• Thakur, Amod K., and Norman Uphoff. 2017. Climate Smart agriculture: How modified crop/water management with SRI can contribute to climate-resilience and higher water productivity. 35 slides. Presentation at the 2017 Annual Meetings of ASA-CSSA-SSSA on ‘Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future, Tampa, Florida, USA, October 23-25.
• 2017. System of Rice Intensification. Interactive slide-based lectures in three parts plus quiz. Ruvival website. April 13. [accessed October 25, 2017]
• Witkowski, Kelly. 2017. CSA through SRI: Too Good to be True? 21 slides. Presentation at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Association for International Agriculture & Rural Development (AIARD), Washington, DC in early June 4-6, 2017. [Accessed August 3, 2017]
• Toure, Abdoulaye, and Gaoussou Traore. 2017. Mainstreaming of SRI/AWD in WAAPP. 30 slides. Presentation at the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series, World Bank, Washington DC, June 8, 2017. [See ALL presentations in this event] [accessed July 2017]
• 2017. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - A Way to Improve Agriculture and Water Productivity. 14 slides. Presentation at the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series, World Bank, Washington DC, June 8, 2017. [See ALL presentations in this event] [accessed July 2017]
• SRI-LMB. 2017. System of Rice Intensification: Path to Sustainable Rice Production. SRI-LMB website. June. [Poster for World Environment Day developed by the Asian Institute of Technology's SRI-LMB (Lower Mekong Basin) Project.] [accessed June 15, 2017]
• Styger, Erika. 2017. Alternate Wetting and Drying and the System of Rice Intensification for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production. 19 slides. Presentation at the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series, World Bank, Washington DC, June 8, 2017.
• Quintero, Jose Alberto Yau. 2017. 5 slides. Reto para la seguridad alimentaria en ALC - Validacion de practicas agricolas arroceras para mejorar el uso eficiente del agua. Presented at the XII Taller de Seguimiento Technico de Proyectos FONTAGRO, La Ceiba, Honduras, June 20-23, 2017.
• Witkowski, Kelly. 2017. 6 slides. Cultivar mas con menos - Adaptacion, validacion y promocion del Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI) en las Americas como una respuesta al cambio climatico. Presented at the XII Taller de Seguimiento Technico de Proyectos FONTAGRO, La Ceiba, Honduras, June 20-23, 2017.
• Moreira, Díddier. 2017. El Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI) en las Américas como una respuesta al cambio climático. 26 slides. Presented at the Foro virtual sobre Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI) en las Américas como una respuesta al cambio climático. IICA, Costa Rica, May 25, 2017.
• 2017. Presentations at the Regional Review and Planning Workshop 2017 of the Project on 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 April 23-25, 2017, in Hanoi Vietnam.
  1) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL): Regional Trend. 37 slides.
  2) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) in Cambodia. 39 slides.
  3) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) in Vietnam. 31 slides.
  4) Key FPAR Learning and Draft Work Plans, Thailand. 24 slides.
  5) Key FPAR Learning from Uttaradit Province, Thailand. 16 slides.
  6) Key FPAR Learning from Thailand. 33 slides.
  7) Key FPAR Learning and Draft Work Plans, Vietnam. 25 slides.
  8) Key FPAR Learning and Draft Work Plans, Lao PDR, 21 slides.
  9) Key FPAR Learning and Draft Work Plans, Cambodia. 54 slides.
  10) Economic Outputs and Key Learning from Projects. 17 slides.
• Norman Uphoff. 2014. Agroecological Strategies for Raising Crop Productivity with Reduced Inputs, with Less Water Requirement, and with Buffering of Climate-Change Stresses. 72 slides. Presentation at the Agricultural Research Center, Sakha, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, April 10, 2014. [uploaded May 18, 2017]
• Fisher, Lucy. 2017. Global, National, and Regional SRI Networks. 21 slides. Presentation at the Regional Review and Planning Workshop on Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum from Innovation and around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong Rive Basic (SRI-LMB), Hanoi, Vietnam, April 23-25, 2017
• Gayakwad, Jagdish. 2017. Agronomy: Precision water management in different rice ecosystems. 61 slides. Presentation from Dept. of Agronomy UAS, Raichur, Karnataka, India. [SRI discussion begins at slided 48]
• Fisher, Lucy. 2017. The system of Rice intensification (SRI): An Eco-Digital Commons for Knowledge Sharing. Poster presented at the 2nd Agricultural and Climate Change conference, Sitges, Spain, March 26-28, 2017.
• Rasquinha, Vijay. 2017. Saving 200 billion litres of water by 2020. 11 slides. Presentation at the Geospatial World Forum, Hyderabad, India, February 23-25. [Project intended to help 6300 canal-irrigated paddy farmers in 180 villages in of Raichur and Koppal districts to shift from a water-intensive flood irrigation regime to a rationale use of canal water through ICM Integrated crop management, comprising both NPM (Non-Pesticidal Management) and SRI. This should save 200 billion litres of canal water by 2020.]
• Mara, Hillary. 2017. Rice Production in Guinea and SRI; Peace Corps Guinea Agroforestry PST. 54 slides. Presented at SRI Peace Corps Guinea Agroforestry PST, Dubreka, Guinea, January 9, 2017. SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare.net. [uploaded January 26, 2017]

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