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Successful technology adoption needs support from both farmers and governments

Successful technology adoption needs support from both farmers and governments

September 8, 2005

Involving farmers and farming communities in decisions about new agricultural technologies or management practices and allowing them...

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Ups and downs: private-sector investment in rice research

Ups and downs: private-sector investment in rice research

April 3, 2005

Rice is, arguably, the world’s most important food crop. In spite of this prominence, the private sector...

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Biopirates or pioneering conservationists?

Biopirates or pioneering conservationists?

October 1, 2004

The genebanks of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) are often portrayed in the popular...

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Agronomic UFOs waste valuable scientific resources

Agronomic UFOs waste valuable scientific resources

July 23, 2004

Discussion of the system of rice intensification (SRI) is unfortunate because it implies SRI merits serious consideration....

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System of rice intensification responds to 21st century needs

System of rice intensification responds to 21st century needs

July 23, 2004

The system of rice intensification (SRI) was developed in Madagascar 20 years ago by Fr. Henri de...

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Fear and loathing drive needless insecticide use

Fear and loathing drive needless insecticide use

April 22, 2004

Rice farmers, like most people, instinctively abhor bugs, especially in their fields. This makes them easy targets...

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Let’s promote brown rice to combat hidden hunger

Let’s promote brown rice to combat hidden hunger

January 18, 2004

Agricultural advances in the past 3 decades have made remarkable progress in providing affordable cereals to most...

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The truth about jasmine rice

The truth about jasmine rice

October 25, 2003

A simmering controversy boiled over a couple years ago when newspaper articles accused American plant breeders of...

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Biotech won’t soon replace “conventional” breeding

Biotech won’t soon replace “conventional” breeding

April 14, 2003

A defining moment in the history of biology was the elucidation of the laws of genetics by...

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Lessons learned in the long term

Lessons learned in the long term

September 10, 2002

The most intensively cropped experimental site in Asia began four decades ago largely as a demonstration plot...

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