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The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) is a multi-stakeholder platform established in December 2011. The SRP is co-convened by UN Environment and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) to promote resource efficiency and sustainability in trade flows, production and consumption operations, and supply chains in the global rice sector.

The SRP pursues public policy development and voluntary market transformation initiatives to provide private, non-profit and public actors in the global rice sector with sustainable production standards and outreach mechanisms that contribute to increasing the global supply of affordable rice, improved livelihoods for rice producers and reduced environmental impact of rice production.

Mission of the SRP
The Mission of the platform is to provide private, non-profit and public actors in the global rice sector with sustainable production standards and outreach mechanisms that contribute to an increase of global supply of affordable rice, improved livelihoods of rice producers and a reduction of the environmental impact of rice production. The SRP focus objectives are as follows:


 * To develop a context dependent modular standard for sustainable rice production and processing (including decision making tools and quantitative sustainability impact indicators.
 * To develop and promote outreach models that enable large-scale adoption of best practices through supply chain mechanisms and public policy development.
 * To establish an international platform globally recognized for its role in promoting continuous improvement in sustainability in the rice sector with a broad participation from all actors throughout the value chain, the public sector and non-profit organizations.

The Standard on Sustainable Rice Cultivation
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard for Sustainable Rice Cultivation is the world’s first voluntary sustainability standard for rice. The Standard can be found in its PDF form here.

Drawing on the experiences of other agri-food sustainability initiatives, the SRP Standard was developed over a two-year period with broad stakeholder participation. The first public version of the SRP Standard (Version 1.0) was released for field-testing in October 2015. SRP members and external stakeholders conducted pilots using the SRP Standard (Version 1.0) with farmers in diverse agro-ecological contexts over a period of one to two crop seasons. Data and farmer feedback from these field pilots provided invaluable guidance in refining the Standard.

In 2017, SRP launched a review process in compliance with the ISEAL Standard-Setting Code of Good Practice. SRP held a Standard and Performance Indicators Revision Workshop in Bali, Indonesia in August 2017, followed by an open online public consultation from September to November 2017 to identify areas for potential revision and proposed changes. Inputs were assessed and incorporated during December 2017 to November 2018, in consultation with members of the SRP Working Group on Farmer Support, Performance Measurement, and Assurance, together with external experts. The SRP Standard (Version 2.0) was launched at the SRP 8th Plenary Meeting and General Assembly in Siem Reap, Cambodia on January 2019. Further clarifications in the wording of requirement 2 (Record keeping) are reflected in the SRP Standard (Version 2.1), launched in January 2020. No changes have been made to scoring or thresholds.

The Performance Indicators for Sustainable Rice Cultivation
The Performance Indicators (PIs) are designed to complement the Standard by measuring changes resulting from adoption of on-farm sustainable rice cultivation, e.g. through compliance with the SRP Standard, or other interventions of interest to SRP members. The PIs PDF format can be found here.

The PIs are designed to assess sustainability improvements resulting from changes in farm practice. They offer a flexible tool to enhance understanding of the effectiveness of individual interventions and to create a basis to communicate on progress towards sustainability in any rice system. Implementation partners of the SRP may select from the individual PIs to show progress on selected goals in their own SRP-registered projects.

Relationship to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Rice Platform's activities and instruments can be linked closely to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Much of the indicators and sub-indicators in the SDGs overlap with the SRP's Standards and Performance Indicators.