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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 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...

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...

Rice farmers in Bone, Indonesia, use horses to haul the day’s harvest back home. (Photo: Madonna Casimero) Calm and smiling, he spoke with authority,...

“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....

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...