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(Photo: Adam Barclay) My father, S. Ram Singh, was a progressive farmer and I would say that I inherited from him the gene that bestowed upon me my love for agriculture. After earning my master’s degree in economics in 1960, I worked full time on this farm to produce seeds, as my father had. I also...

FILIPINO FARMER Johnny Tejeda tends his rice crop in Iloilo. (Photo: Lorelei dela Cruz) The global food crisis of 2008 hit Asia particularly hard. The...

Happy days at IRRI circa 1970: Usha Palaniswamy (with white headband and glasses) enjoys snacks with her father Kodiveri (to her left), mother Indrani...

The first person-to-person contact between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and China occurred in 1974. On that occasion, IRRI Director...

Carolyn Moomaw Wilhelm and her late husband, James (“Jim”) Curtis Moomaw, arrived at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) headquarters in...

Peter Jennings, the International Rice Research Institute’s first rice breeder (1961-67), with a long career in Latin America after his work in Asia,...

MR. KIM is the administrator of Korea’s Rural Development Administration The Rural Development Administration (RDA), which celebrated its 100th anniversary...

In August 2003, the government of Japan revised its Official Development Assistance (ODA) Charter for the first time in 11 years. Since then, Japan has...

In April 2005, the government of Canada launched an integrated International Policy Statement (IPS) in an attempt to bring together the various components...

The driving policy and guiding principles of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) aim to help partner countries overcome endemic poverty...