Monthly Archives: July 2008

Running out of steam

Even before the dramatic price spike in early 2008, rice prices on the world market increased every year from 2001 to 2007. Never before in the post-World...

Navigating a sea of rice

Viput Wanglee (left) and his brother Vuttiphol, assistant to Chaitip’s managing director for production, examine the company’s premium quality Thai...

Lost in transmission

World market rice prices tripled between April 2007 and April 2008, with most of the increase coming early in 2008. While the world market price is an...

Giving farming a chance

High school students at the Binulasan Integrated School in Quezon, Philippines, are all smiles during a hands-on exercise on pest management in their...

A lesson from nineteenth-century naturalists

As we grapple with the world rice crisis, I think of Alexander Humboldt, Henry Bates, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, and Richard Spruce. These extraordinary naturalists wove their exceptional powers of observation into the bases of the modern sciences of biogeography, meteorology, geology, tropical biology, and evolution. Their wide interests and insight contributed...

The price of rice in Madagascar

Percentage of households buying rice, at any time of the year 2007, in communes of Madagascar. (Photo: IRRI) Percentage of households buying rice, at any...

Opportunity from crisis

Local and imported rice in Cotonou, Benin. (Photo: R.Raman) “Everyone to the farm,” is the new decree of President Wade of Senegal—a country that...

Rice Today Vol. 7, No. 3 (July-September 2008)

Supercharging the rice engine Rice goes back to school Hybrid seed farmers can save Tales of Thai traders Coping with the rice crisis ...

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