In September 2013, India’s parliament passed the National Food Security Act (NFSA), which, when fully operational, will be...
Opinion
Rice is a staple for the majority of the 1.7 billion South Asian population and a source...
Today, the world’s population is growing faster than ever before and humankind faces an enormous task of...
Swarna-Sub1 is the flood-tolerant version of the popular mega-variety Swarna (MTU 7029) in eastern India. It was...
Southeast Asia is the hub of the world’s rice economy. As a region, it has been a...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has declared 2014 as the International Year of...
World Food Prize laureates Hank Beachell, Gurdev Khush, Yuan Long Ping, and Monty Jones have made their marks...
In 2000, Science journal’s “Breakthrough of the Year” was full-genome sequencing— highlighting the accomplishment of decoding a...
Arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead are four ubiquitous trace elements known to have a harmful effect on...
July is National Nutrition Month every year in the Philippines. This year’s theme is Together we can...
