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DROUGHT that causes rice fields to dry up also forces women to travel long distances to find drinking water. (Photo: Humnath Bhandari) The headlines don’t...

FARMERS at Tarlac, Philippines, give feedback to researchers on new IRRI aerobic rice varieties in 2003. IRRI screens thousands of potential aerobic rice...

Farmers from Bone, South Sulawesi, watch a video on direct seeding using a drum seeder. The video was made by farmers in Southeast Sulawesi. (Photo: Trina...

CAMBODIAN RICE FARMER, Marie, is participating in a field trial that should enable her and her fellow farmers to grow more rice while saving money and...

(Photo: Guy Trébuil) Imagine, for a moment, that you are a Bhutanese farmer. Farming has been in your family for generations. You manage your farm now...

Central to making farming more environmentally friendly, and so preserving and restoring such magnificent landscapes as this one in Bhutan, is the application...

A Tribal woman in northern Laos votes her preference by piling Job’s tears next to the name of a rice variety. This mode of preference analysis voting...

(Photo: Peter Fredenburg) When they come calling in a village, Truong Thi Ngoc Chi and Tran Thi Ngoc Mai bring the refreshments. They do this because the...

DR. BRAR EXAMINES an example of the wild species Oryza rufi pogon, which donated tolerance to acid sulfate soils to IRRI’s popular, highyielding variety...