Brazil is the ninth-largest producer of rice worldwide and it is the biggest producer outside Asia. Brazil...
Partnerships
Thomas Hargrove, Robert Huggan, Dao The Tuan, and Michael Way—four giants in the world of agriculture and...
“My story of going into agriculture is like an irony of ironies,” Shaobing Peng recalls. “In 1979,...
From being a heavy rice importer in the 1970s, Indonesia today is the third-largest rice producer in...
One finger cannot lift a pebble,” says an African proverb. The significance of working together cannot be...
More than 1,100 delegates from around the world gathered in Des Moines, Iowa, last 13-15 October, to...
During the 1943 Bengal famine, 3 to 4 million people died because of widespread starvation. Since then,...
“Let’s increase food production without letting land stand idle,” Park Chung-Hee, then president of the Republic of...
As part of the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) 50th anniversary this year, IRRI established the 2010...
Kristal Jones, a former Peace Corps volunteer, recently found herself heading back to Asia, where she had...
