CGIAR - Rice Today

Women of scientific substance: Mary Ann Inabangan-Asilo

“I think women are trained to be good planners, well-organized, more hands-on, and multi-taskers like what they are doing at home. These skills enable...

CGIAR centers explore options for collaborative research to achieve global food security

Representatives of international agricultural research centers organized under CGIAR discuss the ongoing reforms in the system and the opportunities and...

Top Philippine university eyes intensified collaboration with CGIAR centers

As UPLB pursues its plans for internationalization, global partnerships with institutions such as the CGIAR centers become increasingly relevant, according...

Vietnam: IRRI and partners inaugurate center for climate-smart technologies

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) in Bac Lieu, and Can Tho University inaugurated...

Harnessing big data for climate change

CIAT’s award-winning data crunchers: (From left – above) María Camila Rebolledo, Daniel Jiménez, Víctor Hugo Patiño, Juan Felipe Rodríguez....

IRRI in Iran

Rice research and training activities are intensifying in the West-Central Asia region (see Rice booms in Turkey), as rice demand is projected to increase...

Biopirates or pioneering conservationists?

The genebanks of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) are often portrayed in the popular press as villains, the archetypical biopirates who steal huge amounts of biodiversity from their rightful owners and ride roughshod over the rights of poor farmers. At the same time the genebanks are often portrayed as heroes, the saviors of biodiversity...

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