Rice-fallow targeting for cropping intensification through geospatial technologies in the rice belt of Northeast India Rice-fallow targeting for cropping intensification through geospatial technologies in the rice belt of Northeast India February 1, 2024 by Amit Kumar Srivastava, Suranjana Bhaswati Borah, Payel Ghosh Dastidar et al. Around 80% of India’s rice...Read More
New study shows informed decisions can minimize the impacts of adverse weather on farmers and rice production in Tanzania’s floodplains New study shows informed decisions can minimize the impacts of adverse weather on farmers and rice production in Tanzania’s floodplains December 14, 2023 by Veronica Mae Escarez Scientists from the Sokoine University of Agriculture, the University of Copenhagen, the Tanzania...Read More
Variety-based climate-smart intervention helps smallholder farmers cope with floods in the lowlands of Odisha Variety-based climate-smart intervention helps smallholder farmers cope with floods in the lowlands of Odisha September 5, 2023 by Mosharaf Hossain, Swati Nayak, Girija Swain, Pavan Yeggina, and Mukund Variar Natural calamities, primarily floods, of...Read More
Mapping and monitoring the rice crop in Vietnam: Experience using RIICE technologies Mapping and monitoring the rice crop in Vietnam: Experience using RIICE technologies March 1, 2022 Remote sensing based Information and Insurance for Crops in emerging Economies (RIICE) has been applied over main...Read More
RICA: A rice crop calendar for Asia based on MODIS multi-year data RICA: A rice crop calendar for Asia based on MODIS multi-year data November 5, 2021 Crop calendars report the timing of key agricultural activities and crop development. At their most detailed, crop...Read More
Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Planet imagery to map crop type of smallholder farms Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Planet imagery to map crop type of smallholder farms July 5, 2021 In this study, we used radial kernel support vector machine (SVM) to map the crop types of...Read More
Climate change impacts on rice in Africa Climate change impacts on rice in Africa July 3, 2018 Irrigated rice production in East Africa is projected to increase slightly due to CO2 fertilization and less...Read More
Future rice climates in Africa Future rice climates in Africa June 8, 2017 Future rice production and food security across Africa are under pressure as a result of climate change-induced...Read More
Food security under attack: Africa’s struggle against parasitic weeds Food security under attack: Africa’s struggle against parasitic weeds March 10, 2017 Parasitic weeds invade around 1.34 million hectares of rainfed rice areas in Africa causing damages estimated at...Read More
Rural poverty and rice Rural poverty and rice January 5, 2017 More than 65% of the 1.7 billion people in South Asia live in rural areas and rely...Read More