In retrospect: IRRI Annual Report 1981
A physician-turned-farmer with a mission to modernize rice farming
In retrospect: IRRI Annual Report 1980
Targeting women and the youth in disseminating climate-smart agriculture in Vietnam
In retrospect: IRRI Annual Report 1979
A tapestry of rice, earth, and soul
By enabling farmers to reduce their losses and add value to their traditional rice varieties with modern technology, the Heirloom Rice Project helped improve their profitability—an incentive to continue growing the rice and preserve a significant cultural heritage site that is threatened by neglect. ...
The study on the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies by men and women in Vietnam is necessary to understand how the different social expectations, roles, status, and economic power of men and women are affected differently by climate change. It will improve actions taken to reduce vulnerability and combat climate change in the country. ...
A medical doctor who is also a farmer not only adopted the laser land leveling technology but piloted a service provision model for it—a first of its kind in the rice granary region of the Philippines. His story outlines the next steps that optimize partnership and active engagement of key players to ensure sustainable uptake of mechanization initiatives in the country. ...
IRRI often gets the comment that the modern IR rices are suited only to well-irrigated fields and have little impact elsewhere. What about the farmers without irrigation who farm three-quarters of the rice lands in tropical Asia? During 1981, plans were initiated to give a much sharper focus to the efforts to develop improved varieties for the different rainfed areas. With the increase in irrigated...
The people of the Philippine Cordillera Region are so devoted to rice that they carved terraces out of the slopes of the imposing mountain range to provide their crops a place to grow. One could say their culture is composed of the terraces, the rice farmers, their traditional farming methods, and their heirloom rice. These are so closely intertwined that removing one would cause this delicate tapestry...
