• Agricultural research often treats food system problems as simple technical hurdles, relying on linear, mechanistic models that fail to address...
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By Glenn Concepcion In the global struggle to enhance rice production and secure food and nutrition security, a key battle happens not in the paddy fields, but in the...
• AWD significantly reduces irrigation water use without compromising yields, but adoption by farmers remain low • Gravity-fed irrigation systems are hindered by soil and...
By Glenn Concepcion The world’s “cereal bowl”, or the production of rice, wheat, and maize, is under the dual challenges of a surging human population and a rapidly warming climate....
By Glenn Concepcion As the global population marches toward an estimated 10 billion by 2050, the EAT-Lancet Commission...
By Glenn Concepcion As the climate crisis intensifies, the communities least responsible for global emissions are often...
By Glenn Concepcion In a recent analysis published in Nature, a team of international researchers warns that a global retreat from agricultural science...
By Hom Gartaula, Alice Laborte, and Jon Hellin International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines This is a continuation of the...
By Hom Gartaula, Alice Laborte, and Jon Hellin International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines Filipino farmers stand at the frontline...
By Christian Dohrmann Climate-smart rice starts with good intentions, but the methods have to survive real fields, real weather, and...
