Monthly Archives: October 2010

In 1982, Dr. César Martínez visited a rained rice-growing area near Tarapoto, in Peru’s upper Amazon Basin. Martínez, then a rice breeder with...

(Photo: IRRI)  As part of the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) 50th anniversary this year, IRRI established the 2010 Outstanding IRRI...

Andrew Nelson and his team show us a glimpse of the world painted according to numbers, figures, and data. Here, in psychedelic hues, Dr. Nelson presents...

KRISTAL JONES gets some first-hand experience with the crop she is researching. (Photo: Macario Montecillo) Kristal Jones, a former Peace Corps volunteer,...

Singapore students Singapore students will soon have the chance to learn one of the most fundamental and important aspects of living in Asia – how to...

Singapore could play a leading role in regional food security and help stabilize rice prices if it took up the opportunity to host a rice futures and a...

The seed keepers’ treasure Rice for peace A genetic odyssey Hybridizing the world Clearfield technology ...

Upland rice in Bae Kan, North Vietnam. (Photo: IRRI) Just south of Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, the great Mekong River meets the South China...

Agriculture is often accused of reducing biodiversity. Diverse natural ecosystems are replaced with comparatively uniform farming systems. About 10,000...

(Photo: William Sta. Clara) It is fair to say that, without a successful hybrid rice program, China would have struggled to achieve its phenomenal growth...