Monthly Archives: April 2012

Farmers produce good quality seeds of different rice varieties in Arakan Valley, Philippines. (Photo: Isagani Serrano) In Arakan Valley, the upland “rice...

Thailand sticky rice with mango. (Photo: John Leeper) A long time ago, I was told, “Rice is to Asians what wine is to Europeans.” Wine is linked to...

(Photo: R. Raman/AfricaRice) Three thousand years ago, African rice (Oryza glaberrima) was first domesticated in central Niger in West Africa and then...

A peddle thresher being tried by farmers in Bela Vista, Mozambique. A farmer’s life has never been an easy one. Before farmers can reap the full benefit...

Piles of rice in jute sacks inside a rice mill in Thailand. (Photo: IRRI) Thailand has been the largest rice exporter in the world for nearly five decades,...

Panfried glutinous rice (Photo: Chris Quintana) This fried glutinous rice (with chicken and shitake mushrooms) is a family favorite among most Malaysian...

(Photo: Moises John C. Reyse) A family of five cooks a kilogram of rice in a pot for breakfast. Somebody forgets about it and it burns—the rice at...

Rice farmers in Bone, Indonesia, use horses to haul the day’s harvest back home. (Photo: Madonna Casimero) Calm and smiling, he spoke with authority,...

Named after the twin river systems, the Indus and the Ganges, the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is South Asia’s major food-producing region that comprises...

The excitement of rice farmers in Saint-Louis, Senegal, upon seeing an appropriate engine-driven small-scale thresher from Asia in the mid-1990s could...