Transforming Rice Straw into Climate Solutions Shanghai’s Pilot for Low-Emission Agriculture

This brief highlights Shanghai’s Qingpu pilot, which converts rice straw into biogas, electricity, and organic fertilizer while testing a lower-emission pathway for rice agriculture. By combining field measurement, life-cycle analysis, and economic assessment, it shows how improved straw management can reduce emissions, generate useful products, and provide practical lessons for scaling agricultural methane mitigation.