Rice production presents often overlooked opportunities for mitigating Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, while also attaining increased production, savings in water consumption, and health benefits. Improved technologies for rice production are well known, but their implementation will require bold action. This will include simultaneously mobilizing many millions of farmers, along with private sector and government actors, through restructuring the relevant policy, financing instruments, available technology, and learning methods – all as part of an overarching and ambitious transformation agenda.