Modernizing the world's most essential crop.
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Rize is a Southeast Asia agritech platform working to decarbonize rice cultivation while improving farmer livelihoods across Indonesia, Vietnam, and the wider region. Formed as a joint venture backed by Temasek, Wavemaker Impact, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and GenZero, the company combines affordable finance, AI-driven agronomy, and market access to help smallholder rice farmers adopt climate-smart practices, addressing a crop that feeds billions but accounts for up to 33% of the region's methane emissions.
Rize's end-to-end platform scales proven sustainable practices including Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), site-specific nutrient management, low-pesticide protocols, and crop residue management across thousands of hectares. By streamlining farmer onboarding, financing, field support, and sustainability compliance tracking, Rize creates economic incentives — including carbon credit income, that make lower-emission rice farming profitable for smallholders while preserving water and soil across one of agriculture's hardest-to-abate supply chains.
Rize partners with smallholder farmers, agronomists, and food buyers to deploy sustainable rice practices at scale, generating revenue through produce offtake, carbon markets, and platform services. Real-time dashboards and localized business intelligence help farmers, field teams, and corporate partners monitor adoption, compliance, and emissions reductions across the value chain.
Works with 13,700+ farmers across 34,000+ hectares; has reduced 30,000+ tons of emissions and targets 300,000 hectares and 150,000 farmers by 2030, with a long-term goal of eliminating 500 million metric tons of CO₂e by 2040.
Methane Reduction
Alternate Wetting and Drying and other practices cut rice-field methane emissions by up to 50% per hectare.
Farmer Income Growth
Sustainable practices can increase farmer income by up to 30% while reducing input costs and water use.
End-to-End Platform
Combines onboarding, financing, agronomic support, and traceability in one operating system for smallholders.
Carbon Market Access
Among the first rice decarbonization projects listed on the Gold Standard Registry, linking farmers to carbon revenue.
