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Variety-based climate-smart intervention helps smallholder farmers cope with floods in the lowlands of Odisha

Natural calamities, primarily floods, of varying intensity adversely affect the standing crop leading to poor harvests. Such untoward climatic shocks invariably hit almost all blocks of Puri District in Odisha.  The variety-based climate-smart intervention proved to be a potential response in the flood-prone rice areas. This can be replicated and scaled up in other blocks within the district as...

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IRC 2023 exhibit combines science and art to explore a food-secure future

  All Tomorrows’ Harvest,  a contemporary art exhibition at the 6th International Rice Congress, explored the possibilities for achieving a food-secure future amid the challenges of climate change. The exhibit showcased a juxtaposition of rice science and the arts to elicit views and raise important questions about our shared futures in food and agriculture. Curated by Dindin Araneta, the...