Climate-Resilient Farming Systems
Climate-Resilient Farming Systems
Our Mission: Improve tropical smallholder farming systems for greater productivity and resilience to climate change through ecological approaches.
We focus on the technical implementation and scaling-up of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) at the global level.
Climate-Resilient Farming Systems is a project-based program, led by Dr Erika Styger, Professor of Practice in Tropical Agronomy, who collaborates with partners ranging from local community-based organizations to international organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and most recently, in the USA.
The program is part of the Department of Global Development at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Regenerative rice production with Black farming communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina
Rice Diversity Study, Saamaka, Suriname
Scaling Up SRI in West Africa
Applying SRI principles to
Fonio (Digitaria exilis)
Our approach
Using ecological processes, we strive to improve the biological efficiency of farming systems and generate synergies to produce a triple win:
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Sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes
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Build resilience to climate change
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Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Operational strategies:
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Integrate agro-ecological approaches according to farmer needs, constraints and opportunities, including
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System of Rice Intensification (SRI)/ System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
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Sustainable Land and Water Management
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Agrobiodiversity Management
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Agroforestry
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Combine scientific knowledge with local knowledge, using participatory research approaches with farming communities to create innovative solutions that benefit and empower farmers.
Sustainable Land Management
Agroforestry
Agrobiodiversity Management
System of Rice Intensification
Analytical Studies, Field Research
Project Design, Implementation
and Evaluation
Training, Capacity Strengthening