FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
RAP publication 2002/12
Terence Woodhead
FAO Consultant Strategic Aspects of Rice-Based Systems
R.B. Singh
Assistant Director-General
and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific
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1. Purpose, background, vision, and goals; FAO's interventions and mission
1.1 Rice systems and the lessening of poverty and undernourishment
1.1.1 The rice systems
1.1.2 Undernourishment and poverty
1.1.3 Interventions and resources
1.1.4 Rural-urban contrasts and migration - woman-headed households
1.1.5 Social and agroclimatic influences1.2 Forecasts: Food requirements and production (including genetic) resources
1.2.1 Food production: Achievements and forecasts
1.2.2 Future production: Driving forces and sources of growth
1.2.3 Yield trends and yield-potential increases
1.2.4 Applications of biotechnology1.3 Natural-resource endowments and pressures
1.3.1 Land endowments and pressures
1.3.2 Livestock aspects
1.3.3 Land-use, agrochemical and global climate aspects1.4 Smallholder contributions to food security
1.4.1 Farm-size dynamics
1.4.2 Smallholdings and national food security1.5 Management of nutrients, tilth, water and pests
1.5.1 Nutrients management
1.5.2 Tillage and non-tillage
1.5.3 Rice-systems water
1.5.4 Pest and soil constraints1.6 Vision, goals and prospective interventions
1.6.1 Vision and goals
1.6.2 Objectives, interventions and procedures
2. Regional situations, trends and projections
2.1 Riceland areas and cropping systems
2.1.1 Rice area and water regime
2.1.2 Rice-based cropping systems
2.1.3 Cropping systems: Locations and areal extents
2.1.4 Fish and livestock components
2.1.5 Implications for interventions2.2 Human populations, food security, employment and undernourishment
2.2.1 Nourished and undernourished populations
2.2.2 Creating rural employment
2.2.3 Effects of 1997-98 economic crises
2.2.4 Forecasts for food requirements
2.2.5 Indications of food supply from rice systems2.3 Economic growth and rural wellbeing
3. Country-specific trends and projections
3.1 The major rice-growing nations
3.1.1 Food deficit and depth of hunger
3.1.2 Statistical considerations3.2 Demography, poverty and hunger
3.2.1 Demography and food production
3.2.2 Undernourishment and poverty: Country-specific features3.3.1 Cereals
3.3.2 Edible-oil crops
3.3.3 Fruits and vegetables
3.3.4 Livestock products3.4 Human and physical resources
3.4.1 Human resources
3.4.2 Land and water resources
3.4.3 Mechanization
3.4.4 Nutrient management
3.4.5 Livestock resources3.5.1 Rural and national economies
3.5.2 Rural taxation
3.5.3 Agricultural imports and exports
3.5.4 Global trade implications
3.5.5 Global trade: "The level playing field"
3.5.6 Global trade: Industrialized countries and aid for developing-world agriculture
4.1.1 Remoteness and persistent poverty
4.1.2 Investment for remote areas4.2.1 Effective use of water
4.2.2 Field-level and water-catchment aspects
4.2.3 Irrigation-system modernization
4.2.4 Irrigation-system maintenance and irrigation-user groups
4.2.5 Irrigation: Policy aspects4.3 Crop nutrition and fertilizer management
4.3.1 Crop nutrition and soil health
4.3.2 Fertilizer-use efficiency
4.3.3 Environmental concerns
4.3.4 Emerging technologies4.4.1 Yield-gap methodology
4.4.2 Yield-gap approaches: Rainfed-rice-system concerns
4.4.3 Yield-gap approaches: Rice-seed aspects4.5 Forecasts for ricelands' natural (and climate) resources
4.5.1 Gaseous emissions
4.5.2 Sea-level and air-temperature changes
4.5.3 Technologies and policies
4.5.4 Carbon-sequestration and bio-fuel options4.6 Socio-Economics, policies and wellbeing
4.6.1 Micro-finance aspects
4.6.2 Essential endowments: Institutional, physical and human
4.6.3 Gender aspects
4.6.4 Policy aspects
5. Options for FAO-assisted interventions; outputs and monitoring
5.1 Interventions: Methodology and procedure
5.2 Interventions: Technological5.2.1 All rice-based systems: Non-irrigated or irrigated
5.2.2 Non-irrigated rice-based systems
5.2.3 Irrigated rice-based systems5.3 Interventions: Economic, social and wellbeing
5.4 Interventions: Institutions, policies and infrastructures
5.5 Outputs and monitoring
5.6 Conclusion and follow-through
