In 1982, Dr. César Martínez visited a rained rice-growing area near Tarapoto, in Peru’s upper Amazon Basin....
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October 23, 2010
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As part of the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) 50th anniversary this year, IRRI established the 2010...
October 21, 2010
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Andrew Nelson and his team show us a glimpse of the world painted according to numbers, figures,...
October 21, 2010
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Kristal Jones, a former Peace Corps volunteer, recently found herself heading back to Asia, where she had...
October 15, 2010
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Singapore students will soon have the chance to learn one of the most fundamental and important aspects...
October 6, 2010
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Singapore could play a leading role in regional food security and help stabilize rice prices if it...
October 1, 2010
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Just south of Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, the great Mekong River meets the South...
October 1, 2010
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Agriculture is often accused of reducing biodiversity. Diverse natural ecosystems are replaced with comparatively uniform farming systems....
October 1, 2010
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It is fair to say that, without a successful hybrid rice program, China would have struggled to...
October 1, 2010
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On 27 September 2010 in New York City, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Asia Society,...
