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“Nature has sent the rats to our homesteads by thousands, and farmers are being eaten off the face of the earth by them.” This quote from H.C. Bartley...

Nitrogen (N) is without doubt the nutrient that most limits rice production. It is typically required in greater quantities than any other nutrient if...

Dr. Haefele holds a pile of biochar—essentially charcoal—that has been produced from rice husks. (Photo by Jose Raymond Panaligan, IRRI) . In the 1870s,...

(Photo: IRRI) Wars ripped apart the social fabric of the Mekong basin in the 1960s and 1970s, bringing suffering and uncertainty to millions of Southeast...

The spectacular view of Kawah Ijen volcano’s crater lake is tempered by the drudgery and danger of sulfur miners’ work and the extraordinary acidity...

(Photo: Ariel Javellana) The road to Albay from the Los Baños headquarters of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is long but not tedious....

Retired farmer Darmono surveys the concrete pipe factory that replaced his rice paddies 2 years ago. (Photo: Greg Fanslow) The logic of the Green Revolution—spurred...

Farmers inspect a seed drill at a Central Soil Salinity Research Institute field day in October 2005 at the institute headquarters in Karnal, Haryana....

The author (left) with former Viet Cong political officer Tran Van Rang on the Xa No Canal in the lower Mekong Delta in 1988. Rang has just explained why...