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Patricia Guzman (left) and Salome Tupa on the promise of women’s hard-won leadership in a traditionally male-dominated rice sector. (Photo: Nathan Russell, CIAT) Salomé Tupa took a sip of hot coffee, hoping it would help her cope with the suffocating heat, as she listened intently to her colleague...

“Twenty years is nothing,” say the lyrics of a 1930s’ song. But, in 2015, as the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice celebrates its 20th...

SKULL AND RICE decorate Dia de los Muertos festival in Mexico City. (Photo: Alejandro De la Cruz) Anyone worried about the impacts of trade liberalization...

CIAT’s award-winning data crunchers: (From left – above) María Camila Rebolledo, Daniel Jiménez, Víctor Hugo Patiño, Juan Felipe Rodríguez....

CORNELL PHD candidate Alice Beban (left) used her ARFUSA travel grant to enhance her field research in Cambodia. Here, she interviews a Cambodian farm...

IMPROVED RICE lines ready for transplanting in Peru. (Photo: CIAT) They’re not the biggest rice producers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). But,...

(Photo: Finbarr Horgan, IRRI) Apple snails (Pomacea spp.) have been a problem for Asian rice farmers for decades. First introduced in the late 1980s to...

(Photo: CIAT) The long and tortuous route traveled by many of the more than 400 improved rice varieties developed in the last several decades by the International...

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) Hybrid rice has the potential to produce up to 30% more yield than the best-performing modern inbred varieties, thanks to A hybrid...

(Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT) If you were asked to name some of the outstanding rice producers of the world, you might say China, India, or the United States. You’d...