2025 Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the SRP Standard and Performance Indicators
An Authorized Training on the SRP Tools ( Standard, Performance Indicators, and Introduction to Assurance Scheme)
Course Description
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) is a global multi‐stakeholder alliance comprising over 100 institutional members from the public, private, research, civil society and the financial sector. SRP is registered as a not-for-profit member association working to transform the global rice sector by improving smallholder livelihoods, reducing the social, environmental and climate footprint of rice production, and by offering the global rice market an assured supply of sustainably produced rice.
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) promotes resource-use efficiency and sustainability in the global rice sector to enable 1 million rice farmers to adopt climate-smart, sustainable best practices in rice production, boosting farm incomes and livelihoods and protecting our environment.
SRP aims to build an expert pool of SRP Authorized Training Providers (institutions), Trainers (individuals), and Auditors to deliver the most current and accurate know-how on the core SRP instruments to SRP Registered Projects, SRP Members, and other rice sector stakeholders – to help scale implementation globally and at high-quality.
This course, Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard & Performance Indicators, is a four-day intensive skills course designed to help participants relate the benefits of sustainable rice farming to farmers; explain the SRP Standards on rice cultivation and the performance indicators; and conduct data collection and assessment among farmers to measure compliance to SRP performance indicators.
Course Objectives
- Relate the benefits of sustainable rice farming to farmers;
- Explain the SRP Standard on rice cultivation and the performance indicators; and
- Conduct data collection and assessment among farmers to measure compliance with the SRP Standard requirements
Learning Modality
The course will be delivered purely online through a mixed modality of synchronous and asynchronous discussions and self-paced e-learning activities.
Training duration: 18 - 21 March 2025 | 1:00-6:00 PM via zoom Philippine Standard Time
Deadline of Application: 7 March 2025
Course Fee
Non-IRRI : USD 600
IRRI Staff: USD 452