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Gender and equality
Trade and production
 
Blog Post
6 March 2018
CSR in practice: Basmati farmers in Pakistan

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

Rural transformation
Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in Southeast Asia
 
Slides
16 February 2018
FAO: Bridging Science to Communities

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...

Rural transformation
Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in Southeast Asia
 
Slides
16 February 2018
Achieving the Philippines’ Strategic Development Goals (SDGs) through Farmer-Scientist Partnership

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...

Trade and production
 
Slides
22 May 2017
Gender and Functional Upgrading in the Rice Value chain in Tanzania

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

Climate change and resource conflict
Trade and production
 
Video
26 February 2015
The importance of rice as staple food in Senegal

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...

Trade and production
 
News Story
4 December 2014
New Article on Rice production constraints and ‘new’ challenges for South Asian smallholders

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.

Trade and production
Youth
 
Blog Post
9 December 2013
A Journey to Become a Weekend Farmer by Supisra Arayaphong

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!

Gender and equality
Trade and production
 
Slides
26 July 2013
New Seeds and Women’s Welfare – The Case of Nerica Upland Rice and Labour Dynamics in Hoima District, Uganda

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

Landscape management
Trade and production
 
Blog Post
14 May 2013
The impact of rodent outbreaks on rice production

Rodent damage to pre-harvest yields