For several years now, I have been monitoring, with some alarm, the world population clock on the...
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In Asia, where about 90% of rice is grown, hundreds of millions of rural poor grow rice...
Maize ears from CIMMYT’s collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains...
The world population is expected to increase almost as sure as the sun rises in the east....
Emma is a 38-year-old mother of eight from the Philippines. She earns a living as a cleaning...
Rice breeders in sub- Saharan Africa are an endangered species, according to Dr. Moussa Sié, Africa Rice...
Burundi is a small landlocked country in Central Africa.Longstanding tribal conflicts in the country broke out into...
According to recent estimates by the United Nations, the world population will reach 7 billion in October...
World population is projected to reach 7 billion by the end of this month (October 2011). Unfortunately,...
On average, each person in the world consumes more than 50 kilograms of rice a year (see...
