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DROUGHT that causes rice fields to dry up also forces women to travel long distances to find drinking water. (Photo: Humnath Bhandari) The headlines don’t scream at you from the front page. But their effect builds and, if you’ve followed the news from across Asia this past year or so, you will understand...

FARMERS at Tarlac, Philippines, give feedback to researchers on new IRRI aerobic rice varieties in 2003. IRRI screens thousands of potential aerobic rice...

CAMBODIAN RICE FARMER, Marie, is participating in a field trial that should enable her and her fellow farmers to grow more rice while saving money and...

(Photo: Guy Trébuil) Imagine, for a moment, that you are a Bhutanese farmer. Farming has been in your family for generations. You manage your farm now...

A GROUP OF RICE FARMERS, led by rural development expert Jan Orsini (hidden), raises an incongruous but rousing Thai victory chant in Comilla, Bangladesh....

Many farmers of irrigated rice apply excess N during early crop growth, when crop demand for N is small, and then insuffi cient N at later growth stages...

Central to making farming more environmentally friendly, and so preserving and restoring such magnificent landscapes as this one in Bhutan, is the application...

A Tribal woman in northern Laos votes her preference by piling Job’s tears next to the name of a rice variety. This mode of preference analysis voting...

(Photo: Peter Fredenburg) When they come calling in a village, Truong Thi Ngoc Chi and Tran Thi Ngoc Mai bring the refreshments. They do this because the...

(Photo: IRRI) My American husband certainly is not alone as a foreigner with a keen interest in the Ifugao and our rice terraces. My people have been the...