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The Weather-rice-nutrient integrated decision support system (WeRise) is a web-based application that uses a seasonal climate prediction model and crop growth simulation model to improve livelihoods and productivity in rainfed rice areas. It provides advisories on the optimum sowing and fertilizer application...

The findings highlight the importance of off-farm income as a pathway to move smallholders out of poverty. Assessing the relative proportion of income...

“Food safety can no longer be the luxury of the rich since all people should have the right to an adequate supply of safe and nutritious food.”  Although...

Low emission agriculture development will not be possible without significantly increasing the amount of investment in mitigation actions across the regions...

The aromatic rice sector has great potential for industry expansion. This potential is important to be explored especially in the current Philippine agriculture...

The rice tarrification debate is well-anchored in economic research, but there is still scope for additional work. This study fills this gap in the literature...

The efforts of GHUs in thoroughly testing germplasm accessions for known pests, before their release for international transfer, have averted the inadvertent...

This toolkit was developed to support mixed methods research to explore how gender dynamics is constitutive of male migration, in the context of eastern...

These channels are central to the success of introduction of innovations such as improved varieties, machinery, and other agricultural practices. Therefore,...

Our analysis suggests that farmers are better off selling their rice if they sell it in the area where there is direct competition between marketing...