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Rice self-sufficiency: A question of geography?

Southeast Asia is the hub of the world’s rice economy. As a region, it has been a net exporter of rice for most of the past 110 years (the exception...

Rice nutrition and quality: getting to the truth

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) July is National Nutrition Month every year in the Philippines. This year’s theme is Together we can end hunger and malnutrition....

A shock wave from global cereal price spikes?

(Photo: R. Panaligan) Three major cereal price spikes hit world markets in the past few years, one in 2007-08, another in 2010-11, and the third in 2012....

Golden grains for better nutrition

Emma is a 38-year-old mother of eight from the Philippines. She earns a living as a cleaning lady, and putting food on the table is a challenge that she...

Doubled haploids: from laboratory to field

Plant breeders are always in search of new breeding tools to produce high-yielding crop varieties with superior grain and nutritional quality, which are also resistant to diseases and insects, and tolerant of environmental stresses (drought, flooding, salinity, cold, etc.). Of the many tools available, anther culture-derived doubled haploids (haploid cells having two copies...

Do rice prices affect malnutrition in the poor?

(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...

The monoculture myth

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

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