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During the night of 2 May 2008, Cyclone Nargis barreled across Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady delta, flattening homes and sweeping away people, draft animals,...

(Photo: IRRI) Forecasting changes in climate has always been a complex task. However, with the development of new regional down scaling tools, such...

The effect of high night temperature associated with global warming on rice yield is being studied at IRRI using temperature-controlled and open- top...

  Producing more rice on less land and with less labor is seen as the key to breaking the poverty cycle, says Sushil Pandey. (Photo: Dante Palmes) For...

Most rice farmers in Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, grapple with the cold every year. During the summer, maximum temperature peaks at 25.3 °C in...

Because of cold, most farmers in the mountainous areas of Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya, either turn their rice fields into vegetable gardens or leave them uncultivated...

Sign of the times. One of the effects of climate change is drought, which now occurs more frequently in some regions. (Photo: IRRI) Rice thrives in a...

Drought brings to mind negative images of wide expanses of dry and parched lands. It is often associated with abject poverty, distraught farmers, hungry...

Farmers must make sure that the bunds are well compacted to limit water loss. (Photo: Bas Bouman) Water makes up 70% of our planet. But in spite of...