Opinion - Rice Today

Building trust in rice trade

A shipment of rice from Vietnam gets unloaded in Manila, Philippines. (Photo: IRRI) Rice availability has been considered a key indicator of food security...

Partners in growth

(Photo: IRRI) So much has changed since its first publication in 2002, when Rice Today began by featuring research results mostly from the International...

Eight driving forces in global agriculture

Rice market in Indonesia. (Photo: IRRI) Agricultural commodity prices will remain high for the next 10 years. Income growth in most developing countries...

Waking up a giant in the global food industry

(Photo: IRRI) The international conference helped forge alliances and joint ventures with Indian agrofood sector, cooperatives, and new entrepreneurs. The...

Managing pests with nature

Pests should be critically reassessed and proven guilty before insecticide use is contemplated. This was my conclusion in 1994 with the late Professor...

Monitoring an inconvenient divergence

For several years now, I have been monitoring, with some alarm, the world population clock on the front page of IRRI’s Web site. This clock is forever...

Global population versus food production

Rice market in Bangkok, Thailand (Photo: IRRI) According to recent estimates by the United Nations, the world population will reach 7 billion in October...

Seven billion and counting: What does this mean for global rice food security?

A shipment of rice from Vietnam gets unloaded in Manila, Philippines. (Photo: IRRI) World population is projected to reach 7 billion by the end of this...

“Iron-clad” rice

Iron-enriched rice will soon contribute to reducing “hidden hunger.” (Photo: Kurniawan) Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia cause...