Dr. Robert Zeigler welcomed delegates from around the world to bear witness to another “history in the making,” as scientists find new ways to spark...

A farmer takes a break from weeding his field and eats lunch brought by his wife. For many farming families, lunch consists of just rice and curry. (Photo:...

BRRI’s M.A. Mazid (front, with glasses and beard) and IRRI’s David Johnson (behind sign) discuss direct seeding and monga mitigation. (Photo: Grant...

Population growth is the dominant determinant of the demand for staple food. World population has more than doubled since the 1950s and has already surpassed...

(Photo: Ariel Javellana) At least 840 million people worldwide do not have enough food to meet their daily energy needs. In addition, more than three...

Africa is labeled as a “poverty continent.” While respectable progress has been made in reducing poverty in other regions of the developing world, the number of African people living on less than one dollar per day has increased, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The region, which includes countries in central, eastern, western, and southern Africa, is now the main...

Agricultural advances in the past 3 decades have made remarkable progress in providing affordable cereals to most of the poor in the developing world. As a result — and despite the continuing plight of 800 million desperately poor — we hear less these days about famine and severe calorie and protein deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the two most vulnerable...

(Photo: IRRI) The most recent World Food Summit, in 1996, set the target of halving by 2015 the number of people who go to bed hungry. Such rapid progress...