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For thousands of years, the  indigenous tribes of the mountainous Cordillera region in the northern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines placed their...

Wild food plants such as the water lily abound in northeast Thailand. (Photo: Gisella Cruz García)  Rice fields are important for both rice production...

Small-scale water harvesting and storage facilities capture excess rainwater during the period of high precipitation and supplements irrigation for dry...

A sea of newly harvested rice extends to the horizon in Battambang Province—the rice bowl of Cambodia. It was only the third week of February, just...

During normal years, average yields of irrigated rice in the Uruguay River basin are above 8 tons per hectare. (Photo: Edison Bianchi-Inia) Adverse weather...

Rain clouds cluster over a rice valley on 3 June 2010, which is unusual in California during this time of the year. In as much as the recent rains in...

Africa’s dependence on rice imports is clearly no longer sustainable. In 2008, sub-Saharan Africa imported approximately 10 million tonnes of milled...

Field planted with AN Cambará in Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (Photo: Mairson R. Santana) Field planted with AN Cambará in Paracatu, Minas Gerais,...

  (Photos: John R. Leeper) Rice is a major food crop in the world and it would be safe to assume that it will remain the world’s leading food...