food

Let’s promote brown rice to combat hidden hunger

Let’s promote brown rice to combat hidden hunger

January 18, 2004

Agricultural advances in the past 3 decades have made remarkable progress in providing affordable cereals to most...

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The truth about jasmine rice

The truth about jasmine rice

October 25, 2003

A simmering controversy boiled over a couple years ago when newspaper articles accused American plant breeders of...

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Multiple strategies assure impact

Multiple strategies assure impact

October 16, 2003

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) believes that meeting three fundamental needs of developing nations...

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The monoculture myth

The monoculture myth

October 15, 2003

Almost everyone acknowledges that the Green Revolution has substantially increased the yield and supply of cereals in...

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Fight poverty where it lives

Fight poverty where it lives

April 14, 2003

The most recent World Food Summit, in 1996, set the target of halving by 2015 the number...

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Biotech won’t soon replace “conventional” breeding

Biotech won’t soon replace “conventional” breeding

April 14, 2003

A defining moment in the history of biology was the elucidation of the laws of genetics by...

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Lessons learned in the long term

Lessons learned in the long term

September 10, 2002

The most intensively cropped experimental site in Asia began four decades ago largely as a demonstration plot...

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Essential food for the poor

Essential food for the poor

September 9, 2002

Approximately 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor people live in Asia, where rice is the staple...

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Food security as economic stimulus

Food security as economic stimulus

April 9, 2002

In the years following World War II, there was growing concern about the food problem in Asia....

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The 2nd Green Revolution

The 2nd Green Revolution

April 8, 2002

The first Green Revolution substantially increased rice production in the Philippines, using a package of new seeds,...

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