This blog offers some clues and brings you closer to the production of the world’s most aromatic rice variety.

Overview of FAO's Regional Rice Initiative (RRI). The project was impemented in 20 Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and aimed to increase rice productivity, increase cost efficiency and increasing...

Chris Paneiro from MASIPAG, a farmer-led network working towards the sustainable management of biodiversity, presents how the organisation is empowering farmers and improving their livelihoods in...

Presented by Mesia Ilomo, UDBS & SLU, at the workshop "Youth, Agripreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals", 8th of May 2017.

SEI Researchers Adam John and Magnus Benzie travel through Senegal to explore how the country is planning to achieve food security in the face of climate change impacts both at home and...

SIANI members Adam John and Matthew Fielding have recently published a new study in Agriculture and Food Security Journal looking at the ‘yield gap’ i.e.

Why do Thai farmers work hard and are yet still poor? Why depression and helplessness are usually in the thoughts of Thai farmers? Is there a way to make any change? These are questions that I kept asking to myself since to be a rice farmer would be my dream job!

This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.

Rodent damage to pre-harvest yields