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2011-12-01
Hybrid rice varieties are those created by crossing two different parental strains. It is essentially a commercial rice crop. It is a known scientific fact that the vigour of hybrid rice seeds is at its peak in the first generation (F1) after which it reduces dramatically in successive generations so much so the rice is often described to ‘breed true’ only for the first cropping. This limited period heterosis may achieve yields of up to 15-20% higher than non-hybrid (inbred) varieties under specific conditions.
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2011-11-03
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2011-11-02
Assessing the 20 years of Rio
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2011-10-17
On June 4-6 next year, the Earth Summit (formally the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development or UNCSD) will trace the road back to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, 20 years after the high-level conference made historic commitments to saving the planet. But Rio+20, as the meeting is informally called, is happening at a time that the world is facing unprecedented environmental and economic crises, which have only embarrassed the concept of sustainable development that the UN adopted in 1992.
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2011-10-01
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2011-10-01
These are the Cover pages, including Citation, Copyright, Table of contents and Preface pages of the compilation "Impacts of Climate Change and Existing Adaptation Strategies by Rice-Growing Communities in Asia"
Below are links to the individual Studies on Climate Change and Rice.
A. PHASE 1 STUDIES
Bangladesh
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2011-09-30
The role of speculation in the continued volatility of global food prices continues to spark controversy. Even within the camp of multilateral institutions and those that have themselves prescribed globalisation policies that have facilitated and aggravated unbridled speculation-driven price hikes, the debate is drawing the line between truths and lies.
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2011-09-20
An institute’s policy on intellectual property (IP) is meant to be in line with its larger objectives. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)’s first explicit policy on IP dates back to 1994.1 Since then, both IRRI and its IP policy have undergone change. IRRI was originally intended to be a philanthropic nonprofit benevolent corporation that was to exist for a limited period of time. However, it is now decisively working towards both profitoriented research and fortifying its position in agricultural R&D.
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2011-09-12
The term Green Revolution was first used in 1968 by former director of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), William Gaud, for the increased agricultural production in Latin America and Asia with reference to the work of the US scientist, Dr. Norman Borlaug, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).1 What Borlaug did with wheat, IRRI did with rice: breed highyielding semi-dwarf varieties.
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2011-07-01
An announcement in August 2006 by the US Agriculture Secretary, Mike Johanns, sparked off the biggest GMO scandal in recent times—Bayer CropScience had informed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) that conventional long-grain rice meant for export had been contaminated by its discontinued experimental genetically engineered (GE) Liberty Link Rice strain, LLRICE601. They could, however, offer no explanation as to how this had happened.
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