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A lack of rain in the northern Philippines in July and August 2007 meant that many farmers’ rice fields—such as these in Isabela Province—remained...

A sweeping view across mountains in northern Vietnam takes in all the components of the rice landscape: upland rice planted on steep slopes, paddy rice,...

A hybrid Rice yield trial in Jiangxi, China. (Photo: Rodolfo Toledo) A country that is home to around one-fifth of the entire planet’s population...

On a steaming hot Beijing day in August 2007, a group of researchers from China Agricultural University (CAU) visited their experimental station on the...

  Ren Wang (right) looks at Nerica plants with Warda field technicians Hélaine Diaka (left) and Eugenie Gbokede. (Photo: IRRI) The signs are ominous...

IRRI Board member Ruth Oniang‘o admires a Nerica plant. (Photo: R.V. Raman) According to the latest figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization...

  Flooded rice fields, like this one at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, release significant amounts of the greenhouse...

“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...