Tag Archives: gender

Rural women in Bangladesh are responsible for most of the hard work in and around the homestead, yet their work is seldom recognized as part of agriculture....

Swarna-Sub1 not only helps farmers in the low-lying areas of South Asia cope with floods. For women farmers, the flood-tolerant rice variety reduces their...

Drought-tolerant rice helps farmers cope in areas that suffer from water scarcity. (Photo: GRiSP) ...

Women seed-producer groups and seed cooperatives in the three districts were established to ensure that seeds of improved rice varieties are widely available....

(Photo: CSISA, TAMIL NADU HUB) In Asia, women are an indispensable part of rice farming. Their roles are somewhat dictated by farming practices and sociocultural...

MARY HENSLEY (left) and Victoria Garcia have teamed up to bring Cordillera heirloom rice to the world. (Photo: Mary Hensley) The jostling streams and golden...

(Photo: CIAT) The long and tortuous route traveled by many of the more than 400 improved rice varieties developed in the last several decades by the International...

This issue of Rice Today is for the birds! For the first time, the magazine sports four different covers, each featuring some of the bird species found...

Photo: IRRI The eighth day of March 2011 marked the 100th International Women’s Day. This year’s theme touched base with the call to provide women...

“When you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” Nowhere is this saying more true than in the farming sector in Africa, according to Peinda Cissé,...