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Husband and wife Joven and Lydia Ganapin, farmers in a small village in Babatngon, Leyte, Central Philippines, clearly remember the floods triggered by...

THE CORE TRB team members take a break in one of their multi-environment trial plots. Foreground: Eero Nissilä; middle row (left to right): Glenn Gregorio,...

AKIRA TANAKA (left), head of IRRI’s Plant Physiology Department (1962-66), confers with the Institute’s first breeder Peter Jennings during the...

MARY HENSLEY (left) and Victoria Garcia have teamed up to bring Cordillera heirloom rice to the world. (Photo: Mary Hensley) The jostling streams and golden...

 An experiment that has been going on for more than half a century could hold a solution to a nagging concern of feeding an ever-increasing population...

(Photo: ZURSUNBEANS.COM) Himachal Pradesh, the northernmost Indian state on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, could be the closest thing to the mythical...

SUDHANSHU SINGH (in checkered shirt) talks with the farmers in a village in Odisha to monitor the performance of flood-tolerant Swarna-Sub1 (background)...

THE STRAW of Sahbhagi dhan, a drought-tolerant rice, is a popular cattle feed. (Photo: Lanie Reyes) A car can usually travel down the narrow concrete road...

Rice is important to the people and the economy of Nepal, where agriculture employs around 80% of the population and contributes 37% to the country’s...