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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 Sea, forming a delta so rich it has become Vietnam’s “rice bowl.” It includes 12 rice-growing provinces that produce about half of the country’s...

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...

(Photo: IRRI) Climate change is on the agenda of many agricultural organizations and experts are drafting battle plans on every front. But what do...

A payloader gathers newly unloaded paddy at a parboiling rice mill in Thailand. (Photo: IRRI) The International Rice Research Institute has had a longstanding...

Finding meaningful work in the developing world with rice I ended up at IRRI in a quite roundabout way. I actually came into science late in my career....

Norman Borlaug (1914-2009): passion, persistence, and persuasion. (Photo: IRRI) Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, about 25 years...

  The early years Ruttan had laid a good foundation for research and had established contacts with economists elsewhere in the Philippines, particularly...