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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 super typhoon Haiyan on 7 November 2013 that submerged their home and the farm they were renting. “Nothing was left,” Joven said. He was able...

Green Revolutions GR2.0 and GR3.0 will benefit the poorest of the poor who, for various reasons, did not reap rewards of the first one. (Photo:...

OSCAR ALVAREZ is improving his rice yield on rented land in Portugesa State through improved management. (Photo: Adriana Varon Molina, CIAT) Finding...

“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...

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)...