Japan has long defended and quite successfully managed to maintain sovereignty in its international agricultural trade policies...
green revolution
Laxima Adhikari, a farmer in Nepal, used to suffer from an unstable supply of seeds, especially when...
Rice consumers worldwide can now look forward to eating “green” rice with the launch of an initiative...
For several years now, I have been monitoring, with some alarm, the world population clock on the...
In Asia, where about 90% of rice is grown, hundreds of millions of rural poor grow rice...
Maize ears from CIMMYT’s collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains...
The world population is expected to increase almost as sure as the sun rises in the east....
Emma is a 38-year-old mother of eight from the Philippines. She earns a living as a cleaning...
Rice breeders in sub- Saharan Africa are an endangered species, according to Dr. Moussa Sié, Africa Rice...
Burundi is a small landlocked country in Central Africa.Longstanding tribal conflicts in the country broke out into...
