BBC News – Kate McGeown visits the International Rice Genebank.
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For decades, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has welcomed the best and brightest scientific minds from around the world to dedicate their careers to solving perhaps the most important humanitarian challenge facing us today – how to feed the poor sustainably.
Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, supports IRRI’s fund-raising campaign.
It does this by focusing on the humble rice farmer and providing him or her with the best possible technologies, tools, and information available to grow rice in whatever the conditions, such as droughts, floods, or pestilence. To be a great rice scientist takes not just a PhD from a great university – of which IRRI has many – but years of commitment and experience working in the fields alongside farmers.
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Trailer for the joint Asia Society/ IRRI task force report Never an Empty Bowl: Sustaining Food Security in Asia.
