IRRI hikes capacity to store seeds, conserve rice genetic diversity

Malaya | 15 April 2015
Paul Icamina

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has opened a new seed processing facility that enhances the capacity of the world’s repository of rice genetic resources. Read more

A long hot summer ahead of us

Philippine Star | 13 April 2016

It appears as though our hot spell is really only just beginning. In a previous column I wrote that we were glad that El Niño was beginning to wane and that it was a really good thing because some parts of the country are in desperate need of respite. Read more

Global food crisis looms anew

Philippine Daily Inquirer | 13 April 2016

The world is facing the threat of another food crisis similar to what happened in 2007-2008 when prices of commodities like rice spiked, according to the International Rice Research Institute. Read more

IRRI warns of looming global food crisis

Manila Bulletin | 13 April 2016
Edd Usman

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Laguna warned that climate change is a factor that can drive a longer span of food crisis across the world. Read more

IRRI cảnh báo dự trữ gạo ở các nước xuất khẩu xuống thấp (Vietnamese) (Vietnamese)

Kinhte Saigon Online | 12 April 2016

Hạn hán kéo dài do hiện tượng thời tiết El Nino có thể khiến dự trữ ở các nước xuất khẩu gạo hàng đầu thế giới giảm xuống mức thấp nhất kể từ năm 2008.Read more

Satellite technology takes root in Philippine farms

Philippine Daily Inquirer | 12 April 2016

Through a partnership with the International Rice Research Institute, the DA has been harnessing the latest technology such as remote sensing, crop modeling, cloud computing, and smartphone-based surveys to boost what—for most Filipinos—is seen as a decidedly low-tech agriculture sector. Read more

INTERVIEW-Drought could hit rice stocks at exporters, fuel price crisis -analyst

Reuters | 12 April 2016

Total stocks in top shippers of the grain India, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan and the United States are likely to fall to 19 million tonnes by the second half of the year, from a peak of nearly 41 million tonnes in 2013, said Samarendu Mohanty, head of the social sciences division at the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute. Read more

Vietnam could disrupt plans to bolster NFA’s rice buffers

Business World | 11 April 2016
Janina Lim

“This will be an interesting few months for the global market, which faces a tight supply situation for the first time since 2007-08,” according to a post by Dr. Sam Mohanty, head of the Social Sciences Division of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) dated Feb. 22 on the official IRRI Web site. Read more

Thai rice officials visit IRRI; stronger partnership afoot

Manila Bulletin | 10 April 2016
Edd Usman

A delegation dispatched by the Royal Government of Thailand visited the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Laguna is aiming for a stronger partnership. Read more

Global role of Sri Lankan rice to feed the world

The Sunday Times | 3 April 2016

Several rice cultivars developed in Sri Lanka are cultivated at a considerable scale in 15 other countries across the globe to meet their demand of hunger. This global mission of Sri Lankan rice has been carried out through the cooperation of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Philippines. Read more

IRRI says low global rice inventory a threat

Malaya | 1 April 2016
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)  yesterday  warned of thinning rice stocks across Asia that could lead to higher prices  in the region, including in the Philippines. Read more

IRRI mulls exchange programme with IGAU

The Pioneer | 5 April 2016

Staff and students of Indira Gandhi Agricultural University (IGAU), Raipur may soon get a chance to visit International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Manila, Philippines. Read more

Opinion: Cambodian rice industry endangered by bad policy

Asia Sentinel | 5 April 2016

It wasn’t until the 1990s that Cambodia, for the first time in three decades, returned to self-sufficiency with assistance from the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, which reestablished indigenous rice varieties from its seed bank in Los Banos, in the Philippines. Read more

Drought-resistant palay pushed

Philippine Daily Inquirer | 6 April 2016

The International Rice Research Institute yesterday called on rice farmers to try drought-tolerant varieties as the El Niño weather phenomenon continued to threaten farmers’ livelihood and the country’s food security. Read more

Mekong megadrought erodes food security

Science Magazine | 6 April 2016

Several factors reduced the Mekong to a trickle this year, says Leocadio Sebastian, regional program leader for the International Rice Research Institute’s office in Hanoi. Read more

Drought tolerant rice varieties offered to Asian farmers struggling with El Niño’s low rainfall

Genetic Literacy Project | 6 April 2016

The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have been working together to breed and disseminate seeds of drought-tolerant rice varieties that can better survive the ongoing El Niño phenomenon. Read more