TY - JOUR
T1 - Helping feed the world with rice innovations
T2 - CGIAR research adoption and socioeconomic impact on farmers
AU - Mishra, Ashok K.
AU - Pede, Valerien O.
AU - Arouna, Aminou
AU - Labarta, Ricardo
AU - Andrade, Robert
AU - Veettil, Prakash C.
AU - Bhandari, Humnath
AU - Laborte, Alice G.
AU - Balie, Jean
AU - Bouman, Bas
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments and suggestions on our manuscript. We acknowledge the funding support from the CGIAR research program on RICE.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Rice production has increased significantly with the efforts of international research centers and national governments in the past five decades. Nonetheless, productivity improvement still needs to accelerate in the coming years to feed the growing population that depends on rice for calories and nutrients. This challenge is compounded by the increasing scarcity of natural resources such as water and farmland. This article reviews 17 ex-post impact assessment studies published from 2016 to 2021 on rice varieties, agronomic practices, institutional arrangements, information and communication technologies, and post-harvest technologies used by rice farmers. From the review of these selected studies, we found that stress-tolerant varieties in Asia and Africa significantly increased rice yield and income. Additionally, institutional innovations, training, and natural resource management practices, such as direct-seeded rice, rodent control, and iron-toxicity removal, have had a considerable positive effect on smallholder rice farmers’ economic well-being (income and rice yield). Additional positive impacts are expected from the important uptake of stress-tolerant varieties documented in several Asian, Latin American, and African countries.
AB - Rice production has increased significantly with the efforts of international research centers and national governments in the past five decades. Nonetheless, productivity improvement still needs to accelerate in the coming years to feed the growing population that depends on rice for calories and nutrients. This challenge is compounded by the increasing scarcity of natural resources such as water and farmland. This article reviews 17 ex-post impact assessment studies published from 2016 to 2021 on rice varieties, agronomic practices, institutional arrangements, information and communication technologies, and post-harvest technologies used by rice farmers. From the review of these selected studies, we found that stress-tolerant varieties in Asia and Africa significantly increased rice yield and income. Additionally, institutional innovations, training, and natural resource management practices, such as direct-seeded rice, rodent control, and iron-toxicity removal, have had a considerable positive effect on smallholder rice farmers’ economic well-being (income and rice yield). Additional positive impacts are expected from the important uptake of stress-tolerant varieties documented in several Asian, Latin American, and African countries.
KW - Africa
KW - Direct-seeded rice
KW - Impact assessment
KW - Latin America
KW - Natural resource management
KW - Post-harvest and other technologies
KW - Southeast and South Asia
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U2 - 10.1016/j.gfs.2022.100628
DO - 10.1016/j.gfs.2022.100628
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85127514044
SN - 2211-9124
VL - 33
JO - Global Food Security
JF - Global Food Security
M1 - 100628
ER -