Africa’s rice sector has major opportunities to increase its yield gains through improved agronomic practices while avoiding massive land conversion, a study by international scientists including a ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution of ...

An estimated 670 million people are projected to be undernourished in 2030, as noted in FAO's The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report. Conflict, COVID-19, climate extremes ...

To most of the world, rice connotes Asia and the vast agriculture of Far Eastern river deltas. Indeed, humanity's second major crop is from Asia, and 90 percent of it—the main source of calories for 2 ...

A researcher at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff has been providing Extension outreach and technical assistance to partners in East Africa. Sathish Kumar Ponniah, associate professor of plant ...

Enslaved Africans brought much more than forced labor to the New World, including agricultural know-how that shapes the American diet even today, says Judith A. Carney. In Black Rice: The African ...

African demand for rice is projected to more than double during the next 25 years because of population growth and increased rice consumption. A research project shows that the average yield for ...