Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or less commonly Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia and Africa. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production (rice, 741.5 million tonnes in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tonnes) and maize (1.0 billion tonnes). Since sizable portions of sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important food crop with regard to human nutrition and …

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RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 26 April 2024 English

continued dialogue and concerted the importance of ASEAN-India The seminar served as a platform action are essential to strengthen Millet Festival, ASEAN-India for robust deliberations, fostering the ASEAN-India relationship for …

The diverse range delivered a keynote address, Rice Research Institute, chaired the of topics covered exhorted decisions are crucial for promoting includes rice, mustard, pigeon pea, that science-based innovations


CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 25 April 2024 English

The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) conducts in-depth, policy-relevant research and provides evidence- based recommendations to the challenges facing India and the world. [...] CSEP is based in …

case of crops, new methods of rice cultivation and direct seeding of rice, application of A reduction in


RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 24 April 2024 English

continued dialogue and concerted the importance of ASEAN-India The seminar served as a platform action are essential to strengthen Millet Festival, ASEAN-India for robust deliberations, fostering the ASEAN-India relationship for …

The diverse range delivered a keynote address, Rice Research Institute, chaired the of topics covered exhorted decisions are crucial for promoting includes rice, mustard, pigeon pea, that science-based innovations


GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English

The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …

wheat, maize and soybean, but decreasing risk for rice (Gaupp et al. 2020). Such an event would increase


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 23 April 2024 English

THE REFORM OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: TOWARD A SYSTEM THAT DELIVERS FOR THE SOUTH THE REFORM OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: Toward a System that Delivers for the South …

Adams Mark Isakowitz Michael Punke Condoleezza Rice *Michael Andersson Wolfgang F. Ischinger Ashraf


RAND Corporation · 22 April 2024 English

In this report, the authors explore challenges in studying racial bias in police shootings of civilians. They discuss the importance of thinking about bias as a process and its implications …

Assessing Racially Biased Policing,” in Stephen K. Rice and Michael D. White, eds., Race, Ethnicity, and


DEval: Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungs-Zusammenarbeit · 22 April 2024 English

Communications Earth & Environment, doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01356-0

climate change, its determinants and impacts on rice yield in Nepal. 36–46 (2022). Ecol. Econ. 144, 139–147


RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 19 April 2024 English

continued dialogue and concerted the importance of ASEAN-India The seminar served as a platform action are essential to strengthen Millet Festival, ASEAN-India for robust deliberations, fostering the ASEAN-India relationship for …

The diverse range delivered a keynote address, Rice Research Institute, chaired the of topics covered exhorted decisions are crucial for promoting includes rice, mustard, pigeon pea, that science-based innovations


ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 19 April 2024 English

Correspondingly, the stage of water (Shah, 2019), while in Karnataka, groundwater development in 2023 rice and sugarcane covering 20 percent reveals that 79 percent of the assessment of the cropped area, uses

which distorts the cropping pattern in favour of rice, leading to depletion of groundwater levels. Further (Figure 1.2). production of essential staples like rice 8 PERCENTAGE OF SAMPLES Nitrogen 68.1 30.3 1.5 Phosphorus drip irrigation can protect the deficiency, e.g, in rice and wheat soil elements, conserve water, and leads and pastures, can help basic cereals (wheat and rice) regenerate degraded land and provides a path forward water-stressed1 pivotal role in enhancing wheat and rice nation due to its declining per capita productivity


RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 19 April 2024 English

HEALTH SECURITY The 2009-2013 AIFS Framework recognised the multi-faceted nature of the 2007- 08 GFPC, including the competing demands for land between agriculture and biofuel markets, and interactions between food …

Leuven, Belgium, was the need for a transition to- “Rice Production as a Wicked Problem.” NTS Insight, wards


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