Monthly Archives: April 2011

Golden Rice is a different color to other rice because it contains beta carotene – a source of vitamin A. The International Rice Research Institute...

A farmer from the Cordillera region in the Philippines carefully checks her newly harvested rice—the fruits of her labor. She is one of the many women...

(Photo: IRRI) What does it take to attain global food security? This is a question for which rice provides part, if not most, of the answer. Rice—a staple...

(Photo: Chris Quintana) Patti Heong, spouse of Dr. K.L. Heong, a senior scientist at IRRI responsible for research on arthropod ecology and integrated...

Thomas Hargrove, Robert Huggan, Dao The Tuan, and Michael Way—four giants in the world of agriculture and development—were lost to us all within a...

(Photos: Karen Bearb) The development of rice varieties helps guarantee sustainable rice production in the state of Louisiana and elsewhere in the United...

(Photo: IRRI) Global food prices are on the rise again. In January, the food price index exceeded the level witnessed during the peak of the 2008 food...

Few countries in Asia are familiar with precision land leveling or laser land leveling, but, in India, the technology has already been adopted in many...

Photo: IRRI The eighth day of March 2011 marked the 100th International Women’s Day. This year’s theme touched base with the call to provide women...

Ram Behal Maurya and his sons will be harvesting rice from a small piece of land he inherited from his father in one of the flashflood-prone areas in...