BASMATI RICE farmers in Pakistan are finding better livelihoods with access to the European market. Photo: RPL.
A program for improving Pakistan’s basmati...
A Filipino woman collects subsidized rice at a market in Quezon City, Manila. High prices have hit the urban poor, many of whom spend a large proportion...
India has come a long way in the past 5 decades from a country with a severe food deficit to being a major grain exporter. The frequent food shortages...
SKULL AND RICE decorate Dia de los Muertos festival in Mexico City. (Photo: Alejandro De la Cruz)
Anyone worried about the impacts of trade liberalization...
Rice in South Asia (Photo: Isagani Serrano)
Rice is a staple for the majority of the 1.7 billion South Asian population and a source of livelihood for...
Southeast Asia is the hub of the world’s rice economy. As a region, it has been a net exporter of rice for most of the past 110 years (the exception...
Farmers holding rice baskets.
For the past four decades, the global rice market has been dominated by a few exporters, namely, Thailand, Vietnam, the United...
(Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT)
If you were asked to name some of the outstanding rice producers of the world, you might say China, India, or the United States.
You’d...