Trainings
Open for Applications | GHG Emission in Rice System: Basic of Mechanisms and Standard for Measurements
Updated on 05 August 2024
In recent years, greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation has become a prominent global policy goal. In Southeast and South Asian regions, rice production is a major source of GHG called methane accounting for up to 20% of the national GHG inventories. Measurements of GHG emissions from rice production are key to guiding their strategies and monitoring their progress.
This training course will aim to build capacity in GHG monitoring in rice systems. It will cover the relevant issues around climate change, emphasizing measuring GHG emissions and mitigation practices in rice production.
Location: IRRI Headquarters, Philippines
Course Dates: October 14-18, 2024
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
Open Applications | Training Workshop on Self-sufficiency, Food Security and Agricultural Transformation
Updated on 05 August 2024
This course will explore food security, self-sufficiency, and the dilemma faced by agricultural price policies. It will examine the different types of policies used to achieve those objectives and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, it will discuss the drivers of structural and agricultural transformation and the role of agriculture in alleviating poverty and malnutrition.
Location: IRRI Headquarters, Philippines
Course Dates: September 10-12, 2024
Application Deadline: August 10, 2024
Open Applications | Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the SRP Standard and Performance Indicators Online Course
Updated on 05 August 2024
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) promotes resource-use efficiency and sustainability in the global rice sector to enable 1 million rice farmers to adopt climate-smart, sustainable best practices in rice production, boosting farm incomes and livelihoods and protecting our environment. SRP aims to build an expert pool of SRP Authorized Training Providers (institutions), Trainers (individuals), and Auditors to deliver the most current and accurate know-how on the core SRP instruments to SRP Registered Projects, SRP Members, and other rice sector stakeholders – to help scale implementation globally and at high-quality.
This course is a four-day intensive skills course designed to help participants relate the benefits of sustainable rice farming to farmers; explain the SRP Standards on rice cultivation and the performance indicators; and conduct data collection and assessment among farmers to measure compliance to SRP performance indicators.
Location: Online
Course Dates: October 14-17, 2024
Application Deadline: October 6, 2024
Previous Trainings
Stress-tolerant rice varieties
View stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) that have been released, and are now available in the different states/provinces of South Asian and African countries