Maps - Rice Today

RICA: A rice crop calendar for Asia based on MODIS multi-year data

Crop calendars report the timing of key agricultural activities and crop development. At their most detailed, crop calendars can support the planning of...

Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Planet imagery to map crop type of smallholder farms

In this study, we used radial kernel support vector machine (SVM) to map the crop types of smallholder farms in two sites in eastern India. We focused...

Climate change impacts on rice in Africa

Irrigated rice production in East Africa is projected to increase slightly due to CO2 fertilization and less cold stress opening new opportunities for...

Future rice climates in Africa

Future rice production and food security across Africa are under pressure as a result of climate change-induced increases in heat, drought, salinity, and...

Food security under attack: Africa’s struggle against parasitic weeds

Parasitic weeds invade around 1.34 million hectares of rainfed rice areas in Africa causing damages estimated at USD 200 million. ...

Rural poverty and rice

More than 65% of the 1.7 billion people in South Asia live in rural areas and rely on agriculture for their livelihood. Nearly, 70% of South Asians, which...

Finding flood-prone rice areas in West Africa

Rice, cultivated in the flood plains along the Niger River and its tributaries in Nigeria’s northern states, is regularly inundated by floods. In 2015,...

GRiSP partners in Asia

GRiSP brings together more than 900 partners globally to address the shared goal of reducing poverty and hunger, improving human health and nutrition,...

A first look at Asia using Sentinel-1A satellite imagery

Sentinel-1A, a radar imaging satellite, is an important tool for rice mapping and monitoring. It can provide detailed information on Asia’s rice...