It was 50 years ago this 28 November that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) released a...
food security
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) brought insecurity to the doorsteps of Mexican farmers. Flooding the...
Seed growers turn Anambé into a valley of prosperity
The overreaction of rice farmers towards pests and diseases is creating the biggest negative impact on Cambodia’s...
Dr. Robert Chandler was appointed by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations to be IRRI’s first director general...
Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words
Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words
This year, 2016, IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of IR8, the first semidwarf...
Thai rice farmers are fortunate to have a head of state who does more than offer symbolic...
An ambitious project plans to create an online catalog of rice genes in which breeders can choose...
When women are empowered, their families, children, the next generation, and their communities are empowered, too.
A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is an incredibly small section of the DNA that, in the...
