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Rice seed production in 100 ha at the farmers field in Brazil.  Latin America has a tiny share in global rice production—only around 4% of the total....

(L-R) Robert Chandler, Jr. and Henry Beachell; Gurdev Khush; and M.S. Swaminathan are World Food Prize Laureates who have worked at IRRI. More than...

Agriculture is often accused of reducing biodiversity. Diverse natural ecosystems are replaced with comparatively uniform farming systems. About 10,000...

A farmer in Laguna Province pretests the mobile phone service to receive fertilizer recommendations. (Photo by Joseph Sandro, IRRI) After labor, fertilizer...

A pouring rainstorm does not stop Project participants of the Japan-funded Emergency Rice Project in Sierra Leone from posing with AfricaRice Deputy Director...

A sea of newly harvested rice extends to the horizon in Battambang Province—the rice bowl of Cambodia. It was only the third week of February, just...

Farmers in the “texting capital” of the world—the Philippines—will soon have nutrient management advice tailored specifically to their rice crops...

Africa’s dependence on rice imports is clearly no longer sustainable. In 2008, sub-Saharan Africa imported approximately 10 million tonnes of milled...

In sub-Saharan Africa, rice is one of the most significant crops—as both a food and cash crop. This is evident from the recent civil unrest that broke...

(Photo: IRRI) New rice varieties have revolutionized rice production around the world. Despite devastating stresses attributed to climate change, farmers...