Tag Archives: sustainable agriculture

Farmer, service provider, manufacturer, extension worker: Four perspectives on rice seeders and IPM in Cambodia

Farmers, extension professionals, the private sector, and other stakeholders are uniquely impacted by agricultural innovation. The following are accounts...

Crop nutrient management using Nutrient Expert improves yield, increases farmers’ income, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions

Nutrient Expert (NE) tool-based site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) in rice and wheat crops can lower global warming potential by about 2.5% in rice...

Crop diversification in rice-based systems in the polders of Bangladesh: Yield stability, profitability, and associated risk

Bangladesh is ranked among the top 10 most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. Therefore, finding a resilient crop and cropping system is the...

Flag leaf findings could accelerate the breeding of high-yielding, water-efficient rice

As breeders continue to search for ways to improve crop varieties to enable farmers to sustainably produce more grains and contribute to global food security,...

Digital agriculture and pathways out of poverty: the need for appropriate design, targeting, and scaling

For digital agriculture to deliver on its promise of increasing farmers’ yields and incomes, it is critical to design interventions that consider the...

Integrated management of weeds in direct-seeded rice in Cambodia

Weeds are a bigger problem for dry direct seeding rice (DDSR) compared to transplanting because they germinate and emerge at the same time as the rice...

Sustainable rice production project wraps up nearly a decade of high-impact research-for-development activities

Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia with Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) tackled many serious challenges to agriculture by conducting adaptive research...

Building a social innovation strategy for rice straw bioenergy in the Philippines and Vietnam

Involving farmers and local communities in bioenergy development is important for the deployment of sustainable bioenergy systems, especially if rural...

A physician-turned-farmer with a mission to modernize rice farming  

A medical doctor who is also a farmer not only adopted the laser land leveling technology but piloted a service provision model for it—a first of...

Targeting women and the youth in disseminating climate-smart agriculture in Vietnam

The study on the adoption of  Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies by men and women in Vietnam is necessary to understand how the different social...

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