Monthly Archives: March 2010

For Glégnon Codjo, a smallholder ricefarmer in Benin, climate change is not a matter of debate. It is fast eroding his source of livelihood. “Our seasons...

Rice vendors in a market in Cambodia.(Image collection of IRR) For the first time since the crisis in late 2007, new uncertainties plague the global...

A famine broke out in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram in 1958-59. It reportedly took more than 10,000 lives and caused severe sociopolitical...

  The first Postharvest Rice Conference and Exhibition held in Thailand was very timely in highlighting the importance of postharvest activities...

It certainly looks like climate change at work. The deluge inundated areas that had not flooded in decades, including many parts of Los Baños and Bay...

During the night of 2 May 2008, Cyclone Nargis barreled across Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady delta, flattening homes and sweeping away people, draft animals,...

(Photo: IRRI) Forecasting changes in climate has always been a complex task. However, with the development of new regional down scaling tools, such...

The effect of high night temperature associated with global warming on rice yield is being studied at IRRI using temperature-controlled and open- top...

Norman Borlaug (1914-2009): passion, persistence, and persuasion. (Photo: IRRI) Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, about 25 years...

  Producing more rice on less land and with less labor is seen as the key to breaking the poverty cycle, says Sushil Pandey. (Photo: Dante Palmes) For...