Amid challenging times, PhilRice soldiered on to meet the needs of its stakeholders, the rice farmers in particular. It was all systems go at PhilRice – innovations after innovations – the Institute invented and reinvented itself to ensure that the rice R4D is alive and relevant in the most trying times.

Climate change is among the biggest “wicked issues” in rice cultivation. From the literature, we know that wicked problems are difficult to solve owing to the extent of the interconnectedness of issues attached to them. With climate change, we know that water will be scarce for agriculture, if not already, given its competition with more urgent and important concerns such as for domestic purposes. We also know that the workforce […]