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Mr. Norio Matsuda, chief representative of JICA, and Mr. Norman Macdonald, director for IRRI’s management services, at the signing of the MOU for...

(Photo: IRRI) Surrounded by India Bangladesh is a country that is as culturally and historically rich. Having an agrarian economy as early as the 13th...

“We do not have a lot of cultural differences, as Govinda also has roots in my country,” says Shanta. (Photo: Leah Baroña-Cruz) Somewhere within...

David Mackill grew up in San Diego, California, in the 1960s and early ‘70s, enjoying the life of a beach bum and surfer on the nearby Pacific coast....

(Photo: Peggy Reimchen ) Brazil is the ninth-largest producer of rice worldwide and it is the biggest producer outside Asia. Brazil first reached rice...

Thomas Hargrove, Robert Huggan, Dao The Tuan, and Michael Way—four giants in the world of agriculture and development—were lost to us all within a...

“My story of going into agriculture is like an irony of ironies,” Shaobing Peng recalls. “In 1979, when I took the university entrance exams, which...

Indonesia had about a hundred million mouths to feed when it achieved rice self-sufficiency in 1984. (Photo: Ariel Javellana/ADB©) From being a heavy...

One finger cannot lift a pebble,” says an African proverb. The significance of working together cannot be over-emphasized—especially now, when the...