Food security and fertilizer Food security and fertilizer January 26, 2009 Food security is back on the global agenda. With the recent food crisis, public attention has returned...Read More
Rice and the global financial crisis Rice and the global financial crisis January 26, 2009 In the October–December 2008 issue of Rice Today, I wrote an article (Rice crisis:, pages 40-41) the...Read More
Rice crisis: the aftermath Rice crisis: the aftermath October 20, 2008 Compared with the prices of other cereals such as wheat and maize, rice prices were relatively subdued...Read More
Can organic agriculture feed Asia? Can organic agriculture feed Asia? October 20, 2008 Rising fertilizer prices and misperceptions about environmental degradation in intensive agriculture have stimulated claims that so-called “low-input”...Read More
Running out of steam Running out of steam July 21, 2008 Even before the dramatic price spike in early 2008, rice prices on the world market increased every...Read More
Lost in transmission Lost in transmission July 18, 2008 World market rice prices tripled between April 2007 and April 2008, with most of the increase coming...Read More
A lesson from nineteenth-century naturalists A lesson from nineteenth-century naturalists July 18, 2008 As we grapple with the world rice crisis, I think of Alexander Humboldt, Henry Bates, Alfred Russel...Read More
The revolution keeps rolling The revolution keeps rolling April 21, 2008 It has been well documented that the Asian Green Revolution (GR), which began in the 1960s with...Read More
The power of policy The power of policy April 19, 2008 In the late 1960s, newly developed, high-yielding rice varieties launched the Asian Green Revolution, which rapidly pushed...Read More
The true price of rice The true price of rice January 18, 2008 Of the world’s 1.1 billion poor people, almost 700 million people with income of less than a...Read More