ANNUAL REPORT 2024
Leveraging private sector collaboration for enhanced climate resilience
Through joint research, training, and innovations, IRRI continues to work with partners in the private sector to improve the resilience of rice varieties, enhance climate-smart farming practices, and reduce carbon footprints in rice production.
%20(1).jpg)
This year, IRRI and BASF joined forces to help farmers lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by combining climate-smart technologies with advanced tools. They aim to evaluate and apply IRRI’s ORYZA model for GHG estimation and use BASF’s AgBalance™ tool to assess GHG intensity through field trials. These tools, along with BASF products, will be tested over multiple rice seasons in the Philippines.
.jpg)
The Reducing Methane Emissions from Rice (REMET-Rice) Project, a joint initiative between IRRI and Shell-India, was able to significantly advance our understanding of methanogenesis, building upstream research for more sustainable rice systems. Seven experimental sites were established during the 2024 dry and wet cropping seasons across five critical research areas, including the validation of proven mitigation technologies, screening for low-emission rice varieties, soil amendment evaluations, soil microbiome profiling, and process modeling for GHG reduction strategies.
Bioseed also extended its partnership with IRRI for five more years through the Bio-Innovation Center (BIC), a membership-based platform that gives private organizations access to the Institute’s world-class research expertise and resources. Together, they are developing next-generation rice varieties with multiple stress tolerances to enhance farmers’ resilience against pests, diseases, and climate change.
We partner with IRRI to benefit from their expertise in rice because this major crop has a significant carbon savings potential.
Marko Grozdanovic
Senior Vice President Global Marketing at BASF Agricultural Solutions