Monthly Archives: October 2011

 For several years now, I have been monitoring, with some alarm, the world population clock on the front page of IRRI’s Web site. This clock is forever...

After a successful field trial, the women in Bone, South Sulawesi, proudly carry the season’s bountiful rice harvest. (Photo: Donna Casimero) In Asia,...

Maize ears from CIMMYT’s collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples...

Weekly market in Sofara, Mali. (Photo: R. Raman) The world population is expected to increase almost as sure as the sun rises in the east. Much of this...

Emma is a 38-year-old mother of eight from the Philippines. She earns a living as a cleaning lady, and putting food on the table is a challenge that she...

Rice breeders in sub- Saharan Africa are an endangered species, according to Dr. Moussa Sié, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) senior scientist. “Since...

(Photo: Sophie Clayton) Burundi is a small landlocked country in Central Africa.Longstanding tribal conflicts in the country broke out into a civil war...

Rice market in Bangkok, Thailand (Photo: IRRI) According to recent estimates by the United Nations, the world population will reach 7 billion in October...

A shipment of rice from Vietnam gets unloaded in Manila, Philippines. (Photo: IRRI) World population is projected to reach 7 billion by the end of this...

(Photo: IRRI ) On average, each person in the world consumes more than 50 kilograms of rice a year (see FAOSAT Food supply quantity data). But, this average...