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Singapore could play a leading role in regional food security and help stabilize rice prices if it took up the opportunity to host a rice futures and a spot exchange, which includes the actual buying and selling of rice for immediate delivery. In the report Never an Empty Bowl: Sustaining Food Security in...

New York, USA – The number of people suffering from chronic hunger reached a record one billion globally in 2009, with Asia accounting for approximately...

  Farmers cultivating rice on 12 million hectares of flood-prone areas in India are planting flood-tolerant rice varieties at unprecedented rates,...

As part of IRRI’s 50th anniversary celebrations, three speakers from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and PhilRice concurred that the Philippines can be self-sufficient in rice. “The Philippines could become self-sufficient in rice now if farmers adopted existing technologies such as improved varieties, and know-how,” said the deputy director general...

To clear up confusion about the origin f the aroma gene found in Thai Jasmine rice, scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) analyzed...