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To meet the nutritional needs of a growing population, we need a solution that will ensure global food security for future generations that do not result...

(Photo: China National Hybrid Rice Research & Development Center©) Replacing half of the rice-growing areas in the world with hybrid rice varieties...

Dr. Bas Bouman, chair, Science and Program Committee IRC2018 (Photo by Isagani Serrano, IRRI) The IRC provides a platform to discuss results of scientific...

Are we doing enough to ensure social science research contributes to advancing agricultural R&D systems? ...

Big or small, modest or grand, innovations are helping IRRI and its partners move forward their mission to end hunger and poverty. ...

There are many technologies can reduce water input in irrigation schemes but many other factors come between technologies and the problems that they can...

Today’s challenges facing scientists are greater than they were 50 years ago. Fortunately, available scientific tools and on-farm technologies are far...

Definitions of “sustainable” that can be found in dictionaries include “able to be maintained at a certain rate or level,” “conserving an ecological...

Even as we continue to promote farmer education on IPM principles and knowledge, it is important to start paying attention to the amount of investment...