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A man is shown bending over in the back of a delivery truck lifting a burlap bag.
COVID-19
How Africa risks reeling from a health crisis to a food crisis
Mercury enters rice through local industrial activities and through burning coal.
Environment
Another problem with China’s coal: Mercury in rice
Various kind of rice that are indigenous to the Sundarbans. Such native kinds of rice are able to withstand salty and austere conditions better than modern high-yield rice.
Environment
When climate sinks high-tech rice, older varieties may save the day
A child plays at the Prado Boulevard in downtown Havana.
Business
When will Starbucks pop up all over Cuba? Don’t count on it
Soybeans with field
Environment
Rising carbon dioxide levels may reduce the nutritional value of important foods
Field workers transplant rice on a farm in Soc Trang Province, Vietnam.
Environment
Rising sea levels mean trouble for Vietnam’s rice farmers
A worker holds rice at a rice mill during harvest time in Padalarang, Indonesia's West Java province, May 27, 2014.
Lifestyle & Belief
The quest to make the perfect rice
A sauteed shrimp with garlic ajillo and guindilla pepper plate is prepared at The Bazaar restaurant at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Environment
Your cheap shrimp dinner is hurting the environment — and upscale rice could be the answer
A sauteed shrimp with garlic ajillo and guindilla pepper plate is prepared at The Bazaar restaurant at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Environment
Your cheap shrimp dinner is hurting the environment — and upscale rice could be the answer
Chef Andy Ricker's new cookbook "Pok Pok" explores his travels in Thailand.
Arts, Culture & Media
How a Thai mushroom keeps this award-winning chef on his toes
A Bhutanese woman harvesting rice by hand in a Vermont paddy.
Conflict & Justice
Bhutanese refugees prove you can farm rice, in Vermont
Health & Medicine
Cambodia promotes brown rice to fight diabetes
Health & Medicine
Promoting Brown Rice to Fight Diabetes in Cambodia
A woman walks into a rice field in northern India where farmers are using the technique known as Systems of Rice Intensification. Local officials claim the system recently produced a record rice harvest while using less fertilizer, water and seed.
Environment
Intensive Lunch: Controversial rice growing technique offers hope for bigger yields
Global Politics
On second try, Susan Rice added to Obama’s foreign policy team
Business, Economics and Jobs
Farmers struggle as historic draught diminishes crop yields
In Ethiopia, a Saudi company leases land to grow and export rice
Health & Medicine
Salad spinning toward global health
Development & Education
Lao rice farmers move from subsistence to cash crops
Health & Medicine
Genetically engineered Golden Rice
Population, food prices and global security
Development & Education
Oxfam: American food aid hurting Haiti
The System of Rice Intensification promises higher yields at a lower cost than conventional growing methods.
Environment
Changing lunch: For farmers, new ‘can’t miss’ technology isn’t always enough
Susan Rice to Replace Donilon as National Security Adviser
Robins on the Hunt-By Ear
Arts, Culture & Media
National Geographic Photographers See ‘Life in Color’
Global Politics
Saudi Company Leases Ethiopian Land for Rice Export
Drought Tolerant Rice
The Indonesia Mega Rice Disaster
Business, Economics and Jobs
Worries for Argentine soy farmers
Who Will Feed China?
Rice Farmers Create Bird Habitat
Science Note/Sticky Rice
Laos’ Sticky Situation
Duck Egg Rescue
Growing Rice Debt Free
Golden Rice
Food Profiteering
Diamonds to Rice
An Earful on Corn
Rice and… Arsenic?
Emerging Science Note/Salt-Resistant Rice
China’s Changing Market
Emerging Science Note/Rice Roads
In Search of the Mouse That Roars
A Gap in Nature
Watching for Fire
Golden Rice
Golden Rice
Rice Futures
Arts, Culture & Media
Oxfam calls on US to stop subsidizing Haitian rice exports
Global Politics
Rice raises the stakes in India
Business, Economics and Jobs
Rice profits are being canceled by the spike in oil and other farming costs
Environment
China faces desertification
Global Politics
Susan Rice picked to represent U.S. at UN
Environment
Geo answer
Environment
Indonesia’s vanishing rice farms
Arts, Culture & Media
The price of rice
Arts, Culture & Media
Aid for Asian rice farmers
Environment
Vietnam’s rice crisis