Farmers find it difficult to adopt innovative crop production methods because of constraints on crop yields; unsuitable varieties of rice seed; limited access to markets for non-rice crops; and lack of knowledge, training, business and financial expertise, and infrastructure. This is the final report for ACIAR project CSE/2015/044. To increase income and food security for farmers and create stronger, more sustainable, resilient businesses, this project helped farmers in north-western Cambodia adopt innovations to sustainably intensify the rainfed lowland rice system and to develop market links within the value chain network.

This report assesses the impact of 2 rice–shrimp farming projects and a mangrove forestry project in the Mekong Delta that were supported by ACIAR from the mid-1990s. These projects aimed to investigate and support the ongoing sustainability and profitability of non-monoculture shrimp farming systems in the Mekong Delta.

Final report for project SMCN/2010/083, Improving the sustainability of riceshrimp farming systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

The CLUES project aimed at improving the adaptive capacity of rice-based farming systems for effectively managing impacts associated with climate change, with emphasis on capacity building, cooperation among CLUES members and local stakeholders, and internal and external information flows.

This project aimed to enhance rice system productivity in rainfed and irrigated

This project aimed to improve food security and incomes of Cambodian farmers

Final Report for CIM/2015/010

This project aimed to identify how to best support sustainable agriculture policy and program research initiatives for the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2015-2019. The key output was a project proposal outlining how ACIAR can contribute to the ‘sustainable agriculture’ research agenda of Indonesia, and the main outputs provide the basis for future work derived from technical workshops, the Policy Roundtable and the background/concept papers.

This project aimed to enhance linkages between Australian and Chinese rice research programs with a specific focus on improving rice cold tolerance. Rice cold intolerance is a major constraint to production in temperate rice-producing areas of the world. View project page

This technical report presents the findings of an ACIAR project that examined the effects and potential benefits of responses to climate change in rice markets in China and Vietnam.

This project researched cropping options to make rice-rice and rice-pulse cropping systems in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady delta (Ayeyarwady Region and Bago Region) more productive. Rice is the most important agricultural commodity in Myanmar. Producing more rice and pulses in lower Myanmar through improved practices and reduced postharvest losses could alleviate poverty and malnutrition, and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor.

This project aimed to contribute to improved agricultural policies for rice-based farming systems in Laos and Cambodia, taking account of trends in Thailand and Vietnam, in line with ACIAR's food security initiative for the Mekong region. Rapid agrarian change in the Mekong region coupled with recent shocks to global food, fertiliser, and fuel prices have accentuated the risks and challenges facing farmers engaged in rice-based farming systems, particularly in the marginal environments of Laos and Cambodia.

Identifying specific haplotypes and testing genetic markers in breeding programs to ensure their suitability for reducing chalk.  Chalk is a defect in mature grains of rice which causes the grain to become brittle and susceptible to breakage during the milling process. The incidence of chalk is likely to increase as average global temperatures rise.