The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact-oriented rice research for development. It is designed to more effectively solve development challenges.

GRiSP streamlines current rice research for development activities of the CGIAR and aligns them with more than 900 rice research and development partners worldwide to:

• Increase rice productivity and value for the poor
• Foster more sustainable rice-based production
• Help rice farmers adapt to climate change
• Improve the efficiency and equity of the rice sector

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POTENTIAL IMPACT by 2035

• Keep rice affordable: reduce expenditure on rice by those under the $1.25 poverty line by $11 billion annually.• Slash poverty: lift 150 million people above the $1.25 poverty line, because they will be spending less on rice, reducing the global number of poor by 11%.
• Reduce malnutrition: as a result of increased availability and affordable rice prices, alleviate malnourishment for at least 70 million people.
• Cut climate change impacts: avert nearly 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions and help rice farmers adapt to climate change.
• ‘Greener' rice: reduce the water and environmental footprint of rice production.

WHY FOCUS ON RICE?

• Rice is the staple food for more than 3 billion people worldwide, including nearly 600 million living in extreme poverty.
• Rice is increasingly important in Latin America and Africa.
• Demand for rice will outstrip supply.
• Rice price increases wreak havoc on the poor.
• Rice research delivers the biggest benefits to the developing world of all international agricultural research.


                  

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