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Cesar Martinez. (Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT) Several factors influenced César Martínez’s lifelong devotion to rice. One was an early mentor’s enthusiasm for the staple grain. Another was the importance of rice in the diet of hundreds of millions of people. From these early impressions, Dr. Martínez formed...

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) In November 2012, young rice researchers mostly working at IRRI received support in professional development through a milestone...

Young Africans, such as Mounirou Sow from Niger, who have been trained in the AfricaRice biotechnology laboratory are dedicated to applying molecular breeding...

(Photo: Joyce Luis) In 1989, Marcelino Castañeda and his wife, Leticia, used their savings from rice farming to buy a bull, which they sold after a year....

In Lao PDR, rice production is an important livelihood of 724,000 farmers. (Photo: IRRI) In Lao PDR, rice production is an important livelihood of 724,000...

In mid-July this year, we visited Bhuan, a small farming community of nearly 50 households in the Indian state of Odisha, to spend a day with Gagan Bihari...

Dr. Joseph Bigirimana, liaison scientist, hosts a visit of officials at an IRR I site in Burundi. (Photo: Nduwimana Julien) Rice was introduced in Burundi...

Reminiscing about his early years, Baboucarr Manneh said that his first experience with research was a few months after high school in 1988. He served...

The Father of hybrid rice says that increases in grain production because of planting hybrid rice are key to strengthening China as the world’s second-largest...

(Photo: IRRI) Cambodia’s resurgence in the 1990s, following a couple of troubling decades of war and internal strife, was a transformation that saw...