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Reiner WassmannInternational Rice Research Institute
(IRRI)
Reiner WassmannInternational Rice Research Institute
(IRRI)
Building Awareness through Education and Research: Rice and Climate Change
INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTELos Baños, Philippines
Mission:
Reduce poverty and hunger;
Improve the health of rice farmers and consumers;
Ensure environmental sustainability;
Capacity Building through research partnerships
Established in 1960
Key Questions for Building Awareness on Rice and Climate Change
1. Engagement of stakeholders (farmers)?
2. New tools for improving climate change response?
3. How to support national and regional (ASEAN) policies?
4. What can be offered to private sector?
Key Question #1:
How can we engage our stakeholders (farmers) in our research on climate-informed agriculture to ensure adoption of results?
Example:Participatory Approaches for identifying farmers’ preferences
Stakeholder EngagementApproach 1: Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSP)
Approach 2: Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Application: Water saving techniques
Application: Selection of rice variety
Involving all levels from• Individual farmers • Irrigators’ association /
Irrigation service cooperative• Local government units• Nat. Irrigation Admin. (NIA)• PhilRice
• Participatory definition of farmers’ preferences (men and women)
• On-site demonstration trials• Extension through farmer
field school, seminars and workshops, training of trainers
New Sub1 lines after 17 days submergence
Samba-Sub1
Samba
Samba-Sub1IR64-Sub1
IR49830 (Sub1)
IR64
IR42
IR64
IR64-Sub1
Samba-Sub1
IR49830 (Sub1)
Samba
IR64
IR64-Sub1IR49830 (Sub1)
IR42
IR64-Sub1
IR64
IR49830 (Sub1)
IR49830 (Sub1)
IR42
Samba
IR42
Samba
Improved variety ‘Submarino’ has been released in the Philippines
Participatory Varietal Selection
• Provides a venue for breeders and agronomists to learn which varieties perform well on-farm and are preferred by farmers
• Incorporates social, economic, and gender analyses in rice breeding
• Involves both men and women in the selection of new rice lines due to gender-differentiated roles and preferences
Key Question #2:
What kind of new tools we can offer to improve responses to climate change?
Example:Mobile Phone Apps
Provide management recommen-
dation
Mobile Phone App (and CD-ROM)
Rice Crop Manager• Nutrients• Field Preparation• Crop Establishm.• ….
Obtain site-specific information from farmer/ operator
New Modules• Carbon footprint
calculator• Climate-adjusted
yield targets
Climate-Informed Rice Crop and Low Emission Manager
=> CIRCLE Manager
Mobile Phone Application for Rice Crop Management
In cooperation with PhilRice
Controlled Irrigation Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Key Questions #3:
How can we support national and regional (ASEAN) policies by scientific information?
Example:Yield forecasts based on Remote Sensing
From National to Local Scale
Harvest
Grain filling
Flowering
Tillering
Water cover
Bare soil
PlantStages:
Crop Status in Leyte West
– on 30 Sept. 2012
In cooperation with PhilRice;maps provided by A. Nelson, IRRI
Policymakers of ASEAN and its member countries will be able to make informed decisions on: • agricultural policies -- including input subsidies, price
supports, technology dissemination campaigns; • domestic consumption / food security policies -
including food price subsidies and social safety nets, national procurement/stocks, market interventions;
• enhancing livelihood resilience to climate variability, shocks, and progressive Climate Change; and
• related policies such as mitigation programs
Policy Information and Response Platform on Climate Change and Rice in ASEAN and its Member Countries
(PIRCCA)
Key Question #4
How can we translate scientific information into practical applications of the private sector?
Example:New insurance products for quantifying crop losses
Crop Status in Leyte West – on 30 September 2012
Assessing Flood DamageREMOTE SENSING-BASED INFORMATION AND INSURANCE FOR CROPS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
Harvest
Grain filling
Flowering
Tillering
Water cover
Bare soil
PlantStages:
Flood affected 60% of total
rice area
Flood damage?=> 45% of total rice area suffered yield losses (flooded at a sensitive plant stage)
IRRI’s Media Relations – Provide information for media and liaise with
media to set up interviews and visits– Media releases: writing and distribution (incl.
‘Rice Today’) – Maintain media contacts (eg. media events)– Promote coverage of rice research in social
networks