Author Archives: Reiner Wassmann, Julian Gonsalves, Peter Sprang, Bui Tan Yen, Jerome Villanueva, Phalida Nelakhom, and Bernard Okumu6

Given the aggravating nature of climate change impacts, rice farming will increasingly rely on improved resilience to climate variability and extremes....

Researchers at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute have developed a  rice variety tolerant of flash floods and submergence...

Rice farming is a major commerce in the southern states of the USA for more than 150 years. Rice dishes from the region, known as“Southern Food” or...

China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Development and Reform Commission have published plans to reduce the emissions...

In rice, there has been very limited research on genetic gain in Asia in general, and in Bangladesh, no studies have been done yet, even though rice is...

The International Rice Research Institute Mozambique office organized an electronic data-capturing workshop in November 2022 to help researchers improve...

The Government of Uttar Pradesh in India is focusing on improving the climate resilience of its agriculture sector. Water management in rice production...

Millions of hectares of land suited to rice production in Asia and Africa are not currently used because of their high salt content. Extremely high-salt...

In the Ilocos Region in northern Luzon, Philippines, “bunobon” means a seedling or to grow plants from seeds for transplanting. The costume...

The Central Luzon Loop Survey in the Philippines (the Loop Survey) is one of the longest-running and still ongoing household-level farm surveys in tropical...