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Strategies and Options for Agriculture
in the Context of 21st Century
SustainabilityCSD Inter-
governmental Preparatory MeetingFebruary 24, 2009
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Things we know about the 21st century that affect agricultural sustainability:
•Demand/need for food will grow by ~ 50% by 2050 - given probable increases in population and income + need to reduce hunger in the world • Arable land per capita will be less - given population growth, conversion for other uses, and land degradation• Water supply and reliability will be less - given likely changes in climate
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Things we know about the 21st century that affect agricultural sustainability:
•Climate for agricultural production will generally become more adverse
• Need more resistance to pests/diseases• Need more tolerance of abiotic stresses
•Costs of energy and petrochemical products are likely to become higher
• Input-dependence will lower farm incomes
•Substantial capital requirements will be a constraint on poverty reduction
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These are objective facts and trends
-- not matters of ideologyThey raise serious questions
about the sustainability of our present strategy
of ‘modern agriculture’This strategy favors production
that is:large-scale, mechanized,
monocropped (not biodiverse), energy-intensive,
input-dependent, ‘thirsty’, and vulnerable to pests and diseases,
and to drought, storm damage, etc.
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This strategy -- widely referred toas the Green Revolution --
has been successful in the 20th century
But reasonable questions can be raised about how appropriate this will be for the expected conditions in the
21st century
Can the world feed and sustain its population by doing ‘more of the
same’?What do we do for an encore?
Is there any alternative?
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Two Paradigms for Agriculture:
• ‘Modern Agriculture’ strategy is to:(a) Change the genetic potential of plants, and
(b) Increase the use of external inputs -- more water, more fertilizer and insecticides
• Agroecology (e.g. SRI) makes changes in the management of plants, soil, water & nutrients:
(a) Promote the growth of root systems, and
(b) Increase the abundance and diversity of soil organisms to better enlist their benefits - with goal of producing better PHENOTYPES
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MADAGASCAR: Rice field grown with SRI methods
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CAMBODIA: Farmer in Takeo Province: yield of 6.72 tons/ha > 2-3 t/ha
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CUBA:two rice plants of same variety (VN 2084) and same
age (52 DAP)
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MALI: Farmer in the Timbuktu region
showing difference between regular and
SRI rice plants in 2007 trials
SRI yield 8.98 t/haControl yield 6.7 t/ha
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SRIControlPlots
Farmer Practice
Yield t/ha* 9.1 5.49 4.86Standard Error (SE) 0.24 0.27 0.18% Change compared to Control Plots
+ 66 100 - 11
% Change compared to Farmer Practice
+ 87 + 13 100
Number of Farmers
53 53 60
• * adjusted to 14% grain moisture content
MALI: Rice grain yield for SRI plots, control plots and farmer-practice
plots,Goundam circle, Timbuktu region, 2008
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SRI Was Developed in Madagascar
by Fr. Henri de Laulanié in early 1980s after 20 years of working with farmers to develop low-cost methods to reduce hunger & poverty• Farmers who had gotten 2 tons/ha produced 8 tons w/o new seeds or fertilizer
• Ranomafana National Park• Same results in an AFD irrig. project on the Haut Plateau• SRI has been spreading around world since 2000
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PeasantPractice SRA* SRI
Area1994/95 1875.5 4361.9 34.51995/96 1501.5 5224.5 88.71996/97 1419.0 3296.7 226.71997/98 3122.0 2893.8 229.71998/99 2768.1 2628.0 542.8Yield1994/95 2.02 3.96 8.621995/96 1.96 3.41 7.891996/97 2.08 3.30 10.681997/98 2.84 3.78 8.591998/99 2.97 4.61 8.07
Average 2.36 3.77 8.55
Rice Yields on High Plateau in Madagascar, Antsirabe & Ambositra Regions,1994/95-
1998/99
Robert Hirsch, La Riziculture Malgache Revisitée: Diagnostic et Perspectives (1993-99) Agence Française de Développement, Antananarivo (Janvier 2000),
Annexes 13-14
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Status of SRI as of 1999
Madagascar
Status of SRI as of 1999:
Madagascar
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SRI Status Today: Benefits demonstrated in35 countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin
America
China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Timor Leste; India, Nepal,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan; Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt; Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Mali, Benin, Moz., Rwanda, Zambia; Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil
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SRI LANKA: same rice variety, same irrigation system,and same drought -- conventional rice (left); SRI (right)
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VIETNAM: Farmer in Dông Trù village – after typhoon
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Reduction in Diseases and PestsVietnam National IPM Program evaluation based on data from 8
provinces, 2005-06Spring season Summer season
SRIPlots
Farmer
Plots
Differ-ence
SRIPlots
Farmer
Plots
Differ-ence
Sheath blight
6.7%
18.1%
63.0% 5.2%
19.8%
73.7%
Leaf blight
-- -- -- 8.6%
36.3%
76.5%
Small leaf folder *
63.4 107.7 41.1% 61.8 122.3 49.5%
Brown plant hopper *
542 1,440 62.4% 545 3,214 83.0%
AVERAGE
55.5% 70.7%
* Insects/m2
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SRI
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
IH H FH MR WR YRStage
Org
an d
ry w
eigh
t(g/
hill)
CK
I H H FH MR WR YR
Yellowleaf andsheathPanicle
Leaf
Sheath
Stem
47.9% 34.7%
Non-Flooding Rice Farming Technology in Irrigated Paddy FieldsDr. Tao Longxing, China National Rice Research Institute, 2004
Weight of rice plant organs after flowering
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Agroecological strategy differs from
input-dependent ‘Green Revolution’Management-oriented approach
capitalizes upon (a) existing genetic potentials - also in other crops like wheat, finger millet, sugar cane - and (b) endogenous processes and potentials in soil systems – seeking to mobilize, support and benefit from the life in the soil – N fixation, P solubilization, mycorrhizal fungi, etc.
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SRI concepts and methods are being extended to wheat production in India
Pictures sent by Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods
Program operating in tribal communities in Mandla and Shahdol districts of Madhya Pradesh state, Central India
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Finger Millet Intensification
(left); regular management of improved variety (center)
and of traditional variety (right), India
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Sugar cane grown with SRI methods (left) in Andhra Pradesh
Reported yields of 125-235 t/ha compared with usual 65 t/ha
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IMPACT OF COMPOST USE ON CROP YIELDS IN TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA
Sue Edwards, Arefayne Asmelash, Hailu Araya and Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rome, Italy, December 2007
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Average grain and straw yields (kg/ha) for 7 cereal crops, based on the averages for each crop, Tigray, 2000-2006
(s=observations for straw yield; g=observations for grain yield)
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Estimated marginal value product of nitrogen fertilizer (Kshs/kg N) conditional on plot soil carbon
content(Marenya and Barrett, AJAE, 2009)
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Changes in management practices can contribute
to:• Higher yields – no need to expand area
• Higher factor productivity, esp. from water - more crop per drop• Lower costs of production and higher household incomes• Better environmental quality•More agricultural sustainability
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Agroecological strategies• Not a solution to all of the challenges in agricultural sector but AE benefits are available now• Still ‘a work in progress’ -- like CA, based on science and on experience
• Can offer many opportunities to meet needs for food security and income in a sustainable manner
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SRI website:http://ciifad.cornell.edu/s
ri/