Alternate Wetting and Drying
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Food sub-categories: Food security
Description: In the Philippines, over 100,000 farmers practicing alternate wetting and drying to grow irrigated rice use 15-30% less water while maintaining yields and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50%. Sixty percent of the Philippines is suitable for this practice.
Website about this solution: https://ccafs.exposure.co/climate-action-in-progress
Why I love this solution: Farmers like AWD because yields are equivalent to conventional methods, and they can save money on irrigation if they rely on paid water pumping services.