The document summarizes information about the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), a public-private partnership founded in 2011 by UN Environment and the International Rice Research Institute. The SRP aims to reduce vulnerability and enhance food security and resource efficiency in the rice sector through knowledge sharing and catalyzing sector transformation. It has over 70 institutional members representing governments, private sector, producers, and researchers. The SRP developed the world's first rice sustainability standard version 1.0 and aims to have 1 million farmers adopt climate-smart sustainable practices by 2021 through field validation programs across multiple countries. The coordinator expressed support for benchmarking SRI guidelines with the SRP standard to drive uptake of sustainable rice in the Mekong region.

1. Transforming rice value chains:
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP)
SRI LMB Regional Workshop
Hanoi, Vietnam, 24 April 2017
Peter Sprang
Technical Coordinator,
Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP)

2. March for Science, April 22nd

3. Peter Sprang, Dipl. Ing., Technical Coordinator
Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP)
Secretariat c/o UN Environment Asia Pacific Office
Bangkok, Thailand.
Coordinator position hosted by IRRI (International
Rice Research Institute) in Los Baños, Philippines.
Coordinator has been working in Asia since 2001,
including certification of forest products, coffee, tea,
cocoa, spices, ecosystem services and
implementing smallholder farmer support.
Coordinator was on SRP´s Advisory Council in 2016.

4. Although I grew up eating potatoes, the world eats rice:
about 480 m MT per year
• 19% of global caloric intake
• 47% of SE Asia caloric intake
• 29% for all Asia
• Staple diet for 50% of the world
• Asia dominates global population:
Africa accounts for 30% of rice
export growth since 1990 and is
expected to be the next source of
population growth
• Due to its size and cultural appeal
rice is not substitutable on a large
scale
Source: Olam Rice

5. Rice: meeting future demand
“For every 1 billion people added to
the global population, an additional
100 million tons of rice needs to
be produced every year.”
Source: IRRI

6. Rice and the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
• Resource efficiency = More income = poverty reduction
• Increase agricultural productivity
• Sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices
• Women equal rights to economic resources
• Water-use efficiency across all sectors
• Protect and restore water-related ecosystems
• Achieve resource efficiency
• Climate Change resilience
• Paris Agreement, Intended Nationally Determined Contributions [INDCs]
• Productivity
• Improve global resource efficiency, economic growth without envir. degradation
• Labour Rights, Save working environment

7. The Sustainable Rice Platform

8. • Founded in 2011: UN Environment and
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• Public-private partnership
• Main objectives:
 Reduce vulnerability, enhance food security
and resource efficiency
 Serve as a knowledge hub, expertise,
networks
 Catalyze sector transformation through new
alliances and by creating shared value
Sustainable Rice Platform
Addressing food security, vulnerability to
climate change & resource efficiency

9. A global multi-stakeholder partnership to drive impact
70 institutional members
Governments
CAM, INDO, Lao PDR,
PHILS, SL, TH, VN
Input suppliers
BASF, Bayer, Syngenta,
Dow, IFA
Food industry
Ahold, Mars, Ebro
Traders/Importers
Louis Dreyfus Commodities,
Olam International, Sunrice,
Tilda, van Sillevoldt Rijst,
Westmill, Veetee
Producer Groups
Loc Troi, Amru Rice, Prime,
Nestle Paddy Club Malaysia
Research
IRRI, Punjab Agricultural Univ, Sri
Lanka Rice R&D Institute, NACA,
NAFRI (Lao PDR), INPI
NGOs
Rainforest Alliance, FairTrade,
Wildlife Conservation Society,
VECO, Solidaridad, WWF
International Orgs
UNEP, FAO, IFC
More than 70 members to date. Newest member: GLOBALG.A.P.

10. Partners

11. Multi-country field validation programme
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
India
Pakistan
Brazil
Total Y1: <5,000 ha
Total Y2: ~20,000 ha

12. Water use
Pest management
Photos: image collection of
the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI)
Health & safetyPre-planting
Labour
rights
Harvest &
post-
harvest
Nutrient
management
The Standard covers the following 8 themes:
Farm
management
SRP: World’s first rice sustainability
standard v.1.0 (to be revised in 2017)
©FLICKR

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www.sustainablerice.org

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Goal: 1 million
farmers adopt
climate-smart
sustainable best
practices within 5
years (2017-2021)
Goal: 1 million
farmers adopt
climate-smart
sustainable best
practices within 5
years (2017-2021)

15. Message from Wyn Ellis,
SRP Coordinator
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“Congratulations to the AIT and partners
on successful implementation
of the System of Rice Intensification
in the Lower Mekong River Basin.
Together, we can look at the opportunity to
benchmark the SRI guidelines with the SRP Standard.
This will hopefully drive market uptake
for sustainable rice in the Mekong Region,
and I look forward to working with you in the future.”
W Wyn Ellis, Ph.D. | Coordinator | Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP)
UN Environment | Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
U.N. Building, 2F, Block A, Rajdamnern Nok Avenue, Bangkok 10200, Thailand

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4-5 October, Bangkok

17. Thank you!