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Conservation agriculture improves soil health: Major research findings from Bangladesh

This chapter explores how, in Bangladesh, conservation agriculture improves soil physical, biochemical, and biological health, leading to improved cropping system productivity while minimizing environmental damage. We also examine key challenges and potential solutions to promote the wider expansion of conservation...

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Climate-smart agriculture practices influence weed density and diversity in cereal-based agri-food systems of western Indo-Gangetic plains

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management practices are evolving as a viable and sustainable alternative to conventional rice-wheat cropping systems...

A new model estimates location-specific agriculture greenhouse gas emissions

University of Illinois researchers has developed a new model that provides a database to estimate location-specific greenhouse gases emissions from agri-food...

Abiotic stress tolerance: Progress and pathways of sustainable rice production

Investment, innovation, and empowering the world’s most vulnerable populations are required to establish a rice production system that adapts to climate...

Impact of natural disasters on the efficiency of agricultural production: an exemplar from rice farming in Sri Lanka

This study presents a number of policy implications that should be considered by every rice-producing country. It strongly suggests that policies should...

Rice farming in Central Java, Indonesia—Adoption of sustainable farming practices, impacts, and implications

Persuading farmers to try out and consequently adopt new practices is challenging. Adoption rates of CSA practices in Indonesia are low. Increasingly,...

Making farmers climate-smart through a farmer-driven approach

It started with five seed minikits in 2013. Today, more than 75% of the farmers in Katindol Village are growing Swarna-Sub1. ...

A woman overcomes the challenge of climate change with stress-tolerant rice

With her crop surviving nearly two weeks of submergence and recovering from an intense flood,  Mrs. Devi had every reason to smile and be proud of her...

The carbon sequestration dilemma in rice soils

Is it possible to sequester carbon in rice soils while reducing greenhouse gas emissions? What are the trade-offs and synergies between soil organic carbon...

How soil and climate-smart agriculture can fight climate change

Soil has an immense potential in reducing the concentration of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere by storing it. IRRI-OUAT collaborative project on climate-smart...

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