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Rice-growing countries in Asia are moving toward the development and implementation of concrete mitigation programs to reduce the environmental footprint...

Future rice production and food security across Africa are under pressure as a result of climate change-induced increases in heat, drought, salinity, and...

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

Shifts in the center of rice area in China from 1981 to 2010 for annual (red), single-cropped (blue), and double-cropped rice (green). Understanding and...

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

C4 plants such as maize and sorghum have more efficient photosynthesis than C3 plants. The photosynthesis in C3 plants such as rice is not as efficient...

Global rice prices have been fairly stable since 2012 after a run up in the first half of 2011 in anticipation of the reintroduction of the Thai mortgage...

The Rice Trader’s 4th annual World Rice Conference revealed that the global rice market was hinged on political decisions that would dictate rice exports,...

(Photo: IRRI) Forecasting changes in climate has always been a complex task. However, with the development of new regional down scaling tools, such...