International Platform for Saving Water in Rice (IPSWAR)

At the initiative of the IRRC-Water Workgroup, the participants of the international workshop Water-Wise Rice Production in April 2002 created the International Platform for Saving Water in Rice (IPSWAR).  The platform’s purpose is to be a mechanism to increase the efficiency and enhance the coherence of research on water savings in rice-based cropping systems in Asia. The over-arching goals are to conserve water resources, safeguard food security, and alleviate poverty. The specific objectives of IPSWAR are to

• Facilitate the exchange of information on research activities, data collection, and research methodologies.
• Foster research and extension partnerships.
• Identify critical research issues, gaps, and opportunities (strategies).
• Facilitate project proposal development.
• Create public awareness and broadly disseminate knowledge on relevant opportunities.

IPSWAR does this by

• Creating partnerships on saving water and increasing water-use efficiency in rice-based cropping systems in Asia.
• Organizing joint field visits, meetings, and workshops, and
• Creating a website with general IPSWAR information plus links to member project sites.

IPSWAR members are networks, consortia or large projects working in the area of water savings in rice-based cropping systems in Asia, each consisting of a number of institutions, covering at least two countries, and providing a critical mass (e.g., can mobilize sufficient resources to organize international workshops). The seven founding members of IPSWAR are

1) Irrigated Rice Research Consortium–Water-Saving Workgroup.

2) Water-Less Rice/Wageningen Rice Group.

3) Growing More Rice with Less Water.

4) Rice-Wheat Consortium.

5) Permanent beds for irrigated rice-wheat and alternative cropping systems in northwest India and southeast Australia.

6) Ground Cover Rice Production System.

7) Aerobic Rice to Ensure Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture (ARTESIA) (in prep).

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