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Rice being traded at an Indian wholesale market. (Photo: IRRI) During the 1943 Bengal famine, 3 to 4 million people died because of widespread starvation....

Dr. Heu was a remarkable plant breeder who demonstrated great skills, dedication, and passion for his work. “Let’s increase food production without...

(Photo: IRRI)  As part of the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) 50th anniversary this year, IRRI established the 2010 Outstanding IRRI...

KRISTAL JONES gets some first-hand experience with the crop she is researching. (Photo: Macario Montecillo) Kristal Jones, a former Peace Corps volunteer,...

Upland rice in Bae Kan, North Vietnam. (Photo: IRRI) Just south of Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, the great Mekong River meets the South China...

In the mid-1990s, Dr. Jackson shows IRRI’s genebank facilities to Nong Duc Manh, then Vietnam National Assembly chairman. (IRRI Archive) Birds, maps,...

Early this year, RDA Administrator Dr. Jae-Soo Kim and IRRI Director General Dr. Robert Zeigler signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the two institutions’...

IRRI’s Board of Trustees held its annual meeting on 14 April 2010—exactly 50 years after the inaugural meeting of IRRI’s Board in 1960. In commemoration...

Mr. Ludovico Badoy, executive director of National Historical Institute (right), and Mr. Faustino Salacup, one of the IRRI Pioneers, unveil a historical...