The fifth International Rice Congress (IRC) took place in Singapore from October 15-17, 2018. It is the largest rice conference in the world organized every 4 years. SRI research was presented in oral presenations, flash talks and posters by resarchers from Benin, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Irak, Japan, Mali, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and the USA. Two side-events on Women and Rice and SRI Research were organized by Oxfam and SRI-Rice. Erika Styger and Gaoussou Traore gave a