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Rice, cultivated in the flood plains along the Niger River and its tributaries in Nigeria’s northern states, is regularly inundated by floods. In 2015, floods submerged and destroyed rice crops that annually produce about 11% of the nation’s consumption, equivalent to more than USD 200 million of imported...

GRiSP brings together more than 900 partners globally to address the shared goal of reducing poverty and hunger, improving human health and nutrition,...

Sentinel-1A, a radar imaging satellite, is an important tool for rice mapping and monitoring. It can provide detailed information on Asia’s rice...

About a third of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in South Asia. By 2035, about 194 million tons (source: IRRI Global Rice Model [2014]) of...

Shifts in the center of rice area in China from 1981 to 2010 for annual (red), single-cropped (blue), and double-cropped rice (green). Understanding and...

MAP OF central Benin showing the assessed inland valley areas (red) and the digitized inland valley sections (bluish black) from the IMPETUS database superimposed...

Extrapolation domain map for shrimp-rice cultivation In the coastal polder zone of Bangladesh, satisfying food demand and improving the livelihoods of...

Rice classification of rice (green) and late rice (orange) superimposed on a Google Earth image. The green dots are field verification points of rice. Remote...

Satellite images showing flooded rice farms and buildings that were damaged by Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) in the northeastern part of Leyte Province...

C4 plants such as maize and sorghum have more efficient photosynthesis than C3 plants. The photosynthesis in C3 plants such as rice is not as efficient...