(Photo: IRRI) My American husband certainly is not alone as a foreigner with a keen interest in the Ifugao and our rice terraces. My people have been the...

Former German Chancellor Willy Brandt once described development aid as “the peace policy of the 21st century.” Cooperation for development, to use...

DR. BRAR EXAMINES an example of the wild species Oryza rufi pogon, which donated tolerance to acid sulfate soils to IRRI’s popular, highyielding variety...

The world food crisis of 1973-75 continues to shape the attitude of Asian policymakers toward food security. Occurring as it did in a period of volatility...

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) A simmering controversy boiled over a couple years ago when newspaper articles accused American plant breeders of seeking to undercut Thailand’s...

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

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

Farmers in Laos weed upland rice, an activity that absorbs up to half of the crop’s labor demand. (Photo: Bruce Linquist) Phath Kantannam and her husband,...

Easy access: training and courseware specialist Albert Atkinson demonstrates how to use the Rice Knowledge Bank to Mark Bell, head of the IRRI Training...