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Definitions of “sustainable” that can be found in dictionaries include “able to be maintained at a certain rate or level,” “conserving an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources,” or “causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long...

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...

How can we boost production on existing rice lands, protect the environment, mitigate climate change impacts, and safeguard smallholder livelihoods all...

Rice plays a crucial role in realizing the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition,...

Innovations are occurring in all areas of science and, like the industrial revolution in the early 1800s that saved the world from the fate of the Malthusian...

Proven technologies, policies, and institutional resources need to be collectively adopted to ensure the mitigation of stress-driven shocks at different...

Self-financed farmer cooperatives are a viable strategy to increase irrigated rice area to attain a national yield average of six tons per hectare. ...

The 2007-08 rice price spike seems like a distant dream now considering the calmness in the rice market in the past few years despite El Niño and other...

RICE aims to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, adapt rice-based farming systems to climate change, promote women’s empowerment...

Smallholder rice farmers are finding strength in numbers through a scheme that helps them lower their production costs and increases their productivity....