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(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...

Monty Jones with the plaque presented to him at the Africa Rice Center’s inaugural lecture in his honor. (Photo: R. Raman)       With...

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

It is said that if you want to be a good gardener you should always sow three seeds: one for the bugs, one for the weather, and one for yourself. But if...

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....

Vicky Ntetema, BBC Bureau Chief in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, interviews a Tanzanian rice farmer during the Africa Rice Congress. (Photo: IRRI) Rice was...

The Alarm project will help researchers predict how climate change will affect rice-growing regions such as this area along the Magat River, which separates...