Half the world eats it. One-fifth of our calories come from it. But rice has a dark secret: It pumps pollutants into the air and is vulnerable to extreme weather. So how can we grow rice better?

Credits
Reporter: Ajit Niranjan
Camera: Florian Mettke
Video Editor: Nils Reinecke
Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:
Rice emissions per kilogram of food: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Total rice industry emissions: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4301...
Alternate wetting and drying:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/5/1510
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Biochar: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Background
02:30 Draining fields
05:49 Burning waste
08:06 Growing less
10:14 Conclusion