Rice Facts

• The power of policy
  By Kei Kajisa, IRRI agricultural economist


• The true price of rice
  Rising rice prices will negate progress in poverty reduction.
  By Sushil Pandey, IRRI program leader, Rice Policy and Impact

• Where now for the global rice market?
  What do the coming years hold for the world’s most important grain?
  By Mahabub Hossain, Executive director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

• Of rice and rats
  Rats and mice do untold damage to rice crops and stocks across the globe. Here, Rice Today presents the facts on the rodent scourge.
  By Grant Singleton, rodent expert and coordinator of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium

• A balancing act
  How do we produce enough food to feed a growing population in the face of declining growth in cereal yields?
  By Mahabub Hossain, Head, Social Sciences Division at IRRI

• Considering gender
  As men’s and women’s roles change, how should we address gender issues in rice-based agriculture
  by Thelma Paris, senior scientist (socioeconomist and gender specialist), Social Sciences Division, IRRI

• Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: Rice in numbers
  Key information on rice situation, poverty, health, and malnutrition

• Do rice prices affect malnutrition in the poor?
  Cheaper rice can help break the cycle of poverty and malnutrition
  by Debbie Templeton, Economic Impact Specialist, IRRI Social Sciences Division

• Drought perpetuates poverty
  by Sushil Pandey and Humnath Bhandari

• Rice in Africa
  Can rice help reduce hunger and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa?
  by Mahabub Hossain, Head, Social Sciences Division at IRRI

• Does rice research reduce poverty in Asia?
  Improved technologies can have an enormous impact
  by Mahabub Hossain, Head, Social Sciences Division at IRRI

• Do lower rice prices help the poor?
  Lower rice prices aren't necessarily bad news for farmers
  by Mahabub Hossain, Head, Social Sciences Division at IRRI

• Saving labor
  Boosting labor productivity on rice farms raises living standards, even for landless workers
  by David Dawe, Economist

• Rice to the tiller
  Lower prices can put more rice in the bowls of the landless rural poor — the forgotten, anonymous and voiceless underclass that provides most of the labor to grow it
  by David Dawe, Economist

• Rice imports come with the territory
  Exporters plant more than half of their crop area to rice — importers less than half
  by David Dawe, Economist
  

• Trading up
  A fresh look at the world's rice market for Asians who still equate food security with self-sufficiency
  by David Dawe, Economist

• The monoculture myth
  The Green Revolution neither monopolized farmers' fields nor impoverished nutrition
  by David Dawe, Economist

• Fight poverty where it lives
  Rumors of its death in Asia are greatly exaggerated 
  by David Dawe, Economist

• Essential food for the poor
  Rice growers and consumer constitute the bulk of the world's population that still lives in poverty
  by David Dawe, Economist  
   

• Food security as economic stimulus
  The benefits of the Green Revolution spread beyond the farm and the dinner table
  by David Dawe, Economist

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