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Proven technologies, policies, and institutional resources need to be collectively adopted to ensure the mitigation of stress-driven shocks at different...

Recent advances with the CRISPR system— the world’s most promising gene-editing tool—could increase the speed of rice breeding. ...

The Mekong River Basin constitutes a resource-rich river system that provides water, food, and energy to millions of people in China, Myanmar, Thailand,...

Opportunities exist to improve the nutritional content of rice varieties to solve the micronutrient-deficiency problem affecting more than two billion...

Self-financed farmer cooperatives are a viable strategy to increase irrigated rice area to attain a national yield average of six tons per hectare. ...

Future rice production and food security across Africa are under pressure as a result of climate change-induced increases in heat, drought, salinity, and...

IRRI Education is the next evolutionary step for IRRI’s training program. ...

A recent technology is giving rice scientists a new weapon for fighting the notorious brown planthoppers: a combination of genes ...

Mr. Chou Cheythyrith, EPIC project partner from GDA, (facing camera) explains the experiment on Trichoderma and pest-resistant rice varieties to visiting...

Fiona Hay and Maricar Alberto share their scientific journeys, their most significant achievements to date as rice scientists at IRRI, and the challenges...