An international collaborative research network helps to design climate robust rice systems
Rice is the world's most important staple food. Although mainly produced in Asia (91%), it is consumed on all continents and its global importance and consumption is increasing. The limited scope to expand production areas coupled with increasing resource constraints (mainly the lack of or competing demands for land and water) make it difficult to meet necessary production increases. Climate change in terms of increasing temperatures, more frequent droughts, anticipated loss of productive estuaries due to rising sea levels, more frequent and severe storms and rising CO2 levels further compounds these problems. This constitutes a huge challenge for science, policy and farmers. The provision of effective solutions is complex due to the spatialtemporal dimensions that must be integrated when setting research, policy and management priorities. These challenges have motivated us to form a Community of Practice (CoP) of concerned scientists. We formed this CoP around the central theme of simulation modelling as a technology that allows integration of discipline-based component science across space and time. We also use modelling as an engagement tool with stakeholders and to connect seemingly disparate scientific disciplines. Here we put our Research for Development (R4D) activities into context and report on some of the research efforts that our CoP is currently involved in. In our quest to design locally-adapted, profitable and sustainable, climate-robust rice-based cropping systems, we welcome input from the wider, global R4D community.
Main Authors: | Meinke, H., Bastiaens, L., Bouman, Bas, Dingkuhn, Michaël, Gaydon, Donald, Hasegawa, Toshihiro, Heinemann, Alexandre, Kiepe, Paul, Lafarge, Tanguy, Luquet, Delphine, Masood, A., Van Oort, P.A.J., Rodenburg, Jonne, Yan, J., Yin, Xinyou |
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Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
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Subjects: | E16 - Économie de la production, P40 - Météorologie et climatologie, U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques, F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture, |
Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/556000/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/556000/1/document_556000.pdf |
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