The Relevance of Rice

Research into rice—the world’s most important food crop—is crucial for the development of technologies that will increase productivity for farmers who rely on rice for their livelihood. This is particularly the case throughout the developing countries of Asia and is also true for much of Latin Ameri...

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Published in:Rice (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2008-09, Vol.1 (1), p.3-10
Main Authors: Zeigler, Robert S., Barclay, Adam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Developing countries
Editorial
Irrigation systems
LDCs
Life Sciences
Plant Breeding/Biotechnology
Plant Ecology
Plant Genetics and Genomics
Plant Sciences
Poverty
Productivity
Rice
Studies
Urban populations
Urban poverty
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Summary:Research into rice—the world’s most important food crop—is crucial for the development of technologies that will increase productivity for farmers who rely on rice for their livelihood. This is particularly the case throughout the developing countries of Asia and is also true for much of Latin America and, increasingly, Africa. The benefits of such increased productivity will flow through to rice-growing countries’ landless rural and urban poor, all of whom (1) are net consumers of rice and (2) spend a large proportion of their income on rice. Recent steep rises in the price of rice have amplified the need for investment in high-quality research targeted toward both the intensive irrigated rice-based systems (in which 75% of the world’s rice is grown and that must provide the rice for rapidly increasing urban populations) and the rainfed rice-based systems (many of which are characterized by unfavorable environments and extreme poverty).
ISSN:1939-8425
1939-8433
1934-8037
DOI:10.1007/s12284-008-9001-z