The most recent World Food Summit, in 1996, set the target of halving by 2015 the number...
international rice research institute
A defining moment in the history of biology was the elucidation of the laws of genetics by...
Rice and wheat are traditionally planted in rotation in eastern Afghanistan, as they are on much of...
India is a world away from Indiana, and none would mistake Sister Sajita Isaac for Johnny Appleseed....
The milestone publication in the 5 April 2002 issue of Science (Vol. 296) of not one, but...
Some 2,000 kilometers from its start on the Chinese border, Vietnam’s fabled National Route 1 cuts flat...
The most intensively cropped experimental site in Asia began four decades ago largely as a demonstration plot...
Approximately 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor people live in Asia, where rice is the staple...
Water buffalo and wiry farmers muscle plows through flooded rice paddies. Houses of rough planks and thatch...
On a rooftop overlooking Phnom Penh, two Australians pulled the stopper from a bottle of Russian champagne...
