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The Internaonal Rice Research Instute (IRRI) was established in 1960 by the Fordand Rockefeller Foundaons with the help and approval of the Government of thePhilippines. Today, IRRI is one of the 15 nonprot internaonal research centerssupported by the Consultave Group on Internaonal Agricultural Research (www.cgiar.org).IRRI receives support from the following CGIAR members: Asian Development Bank,Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, European Commission, Food and AgricultureOrganizaon, France, Germany, India, Internaonal Fund for Agricultural Development,Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Rockefeller Foundaon,Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States of America, and theWorld Bank.In 2010, IRRI also received support from Africa Rice Center, Bayer CropScience AG,Bill & Melinda Gates Foundaon, Bioversity Internaonal, CGIAR/System-wide GenecResources Program/Special Program for Impact Assessment, Challenge Programs(Generaon, HarvestPlus, and Water&Food), Cornell University, Global Crop DiversityTrust, Grand Challenges in Global Health, Internaonal Atomic Energy Associaon,Internaonal Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Internaonal CropResearch Instute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Internaonal Ferlizer Industry Associaon,Internaonal Food Policy Research Instute, Internaonal Plant Nutrion Instute,Internaonal Potash Instute, Kellogg Foundaon, Nunhems BV, Pioneer Hi-BredInternaonal, Plan Internaonal Cambodia, Syngenta Asia Pacic Pte. Ltd., Vietnam, andWorld Vision, Inc., among others.The responsibility for this publicaon rests solely with the Internaonal Rice ResearchInstute.
 
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Contents
Annual Report 2010
Snapshots fromspace
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Double-troublerice
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Squeezing themost out of 
ood-proof rice
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Cracking themystery of chalky rice
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Resizing rice’scarbon footprint
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Financial supportfrom donors
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Arming the footsoldiers of rice scienceBridging the “GAP”makes farmerswealthier
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Turbocharging the
evoluon of rice
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Rice with a vision
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ManagingBangladeshi farmers’liquid assets
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Selected acronyms
42
Convenient Convergences in2010: An update from theDirector General
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A spark of lifewithout oxygen
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“Cooler rice” for awarming planet
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Women of war,women of peace
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Ferlizerrecommendaonsat farmers’ ngerps
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A team approachto rice health
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br undr hat strss, (2)
xporin tchnooisthat wi potna cut down on th rnhous asmissions from ric producon, and (3) r-ninrinphotosnthsis in our
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Ric Projct, which, w hop,wi nab th crop to produc 50% mor rains whiusin ss nitron and watr at th sam m.
Th dtais of ths and som othr thriinrsarch thrusts ar hihihtd in both th foowin pas of this aracv printd vrsion of th annuarport and th award-winnin DVD and Wb formatsthat hav bcom accaimd diita standards ovr thast thr ars.Athouh a of our major vnts and acvis in2010 ar covrd in dtai in th “Mistons” sconof th DVD and Wb vrsions, I woud ik to ca spciaanon to svra hr bcaus, as I think about it,a invov convnint convrncs to on dr oranothr.First, rar had w vr bun a ar with thpromis and potna that w saw for 2010. It had bndcads sinc thr was such broad and stron intrstin (and concrn about) aricutur and ric produconas w ar confrontd b a sobrin st of probms andchans toachiv obafood scuritand hp rduchunr andpovrt in thfac of thoomin cimatchan that Ihav aradaudd to. Thisconvrd nic with IRRI turnin 50 ars od in 2010.This sinicant miston av us an unprcdntdopportunit to paus and rct on th ssons of th past, whi ookin forward to th incrdibbrakthrouhs that scinc is st to brin th word inth futur.Our spcia birthda vnts, parcuar in Apriwith our aumni homcomin at hadquartrs and inNovmbr durin th 3rd Intrnaona Ric Conrssin Hanoi, av us rand stas upon which to showcasour important work to not on our cints and donorsbut aso to a nra pubic who ma hav—up tothn—known i or nothin about us. Durin th RicConrss, as th photo abov riht shows, I mad vrort to tak to oca mdia about what IRRI is doin.Our birthda part aso av us a “odn”opportunit to sponsor our 50th annivrsar 5-arfund-raisin campain (www.irrifund.or) to nd thrsourcs and buid th infrastructur IRRI wi nd torow and accrat its work in th dcads to com. Tonhanc this ort, w aunchd th IRRI FoundaonHon Kon (IFHK)
 
durin a spcia vnt thr inNovmbr. Support in Hon Kon for IRRI’s work aradcoms from som anonmous donors, but, with thstabishmnt of th IFHK, I xpct th support wi bothincras and bcom mor pubic. I’m vr xcitd bth support w ar arad n for th campain—from prsona donaons of US$1,000 to arr is frombi companis—and IRRI ooks forward to workin withth pop of Hon Kon to hp poor ric farmrs inAsia.Durin a pan discussion at th 29 Novmbraunch, I (at cntr in photo bow) tod th audinc inandanc that, as a major businss cntr in Asia andivn th cutura vau and importanc of ric thr,and China’s ro in th oba ric industr, Hon Konis ida pacd to hp rais awarnss about howric rsarch can hp achiv food scurit and rducpovrt in Asia. I pointd out that w ar mn manmovatd pop in Hon Kon and th rion whorconiz this and want to support th campain.Th aunch of th IFHK foows th Novmbr 2009aunch of th IRRI Fund Sinapor (IFS) in Sinapor.
 
Ths two nw IRRI charis wi b important
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 An Inconvenient Truth
for his 2006 documntar mof th sam nam to ducat ciznsabout oba warmin, I takd about a
Convenient Convergence
of th nxus of food scurit and cimatchan.What I man b this is that, rardss of th impactof futur cimat chan, most of th work that w dohr at IRRI is intndd to hav—and in man pacsis arad havin—an impact on improvin th ivs of th vr poor who iv in aras that ar actd b thsam xact strsss in aricutur that ar xpctd tobcom mor widsprad with cimat chan. Ourrsarch is aso improvin producvit and rducin thnvironmnta footprint of aricutur.Th souons for man farmrs’ most prssinprobms—drouht, oods, sainit du to sawatr
intrusion
, tc., for rowin ric and othr crops—arconvrin with souons to probms posd b futur
Convenient Convergencesin 2010: An update rom theDirector General 
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cimat chan. I strssd this point durin a pandiscussion on
Partnering with smallholders:
 
Strategies for food security 
, in which I parcipatd durin th 2010Borau Diaou of th Word Food Priz vnts in DsMoins, Iowa, ast Octobr. I addd that, b appinoursvs and thn ookin at th chans from thprspcvs of farmrs’ nds toda, th nds of thnvironmnt tomorrow, and th chans that farmrswi b facin b 2050, w hav an opportunit todvop mup-win scnarios.Thr is xcin rsarch prorss to rport onfor 2010, som of which iustrats m point aboutconvnint convrncs and mup-win scnarios.For xamp, our scinsts ar conducn cropmanamnt rsarch to squz vn mor id outof our ood-torant ric varis, such as Swarna-Sub1 (photo). In anothr projct, w ar ookin tonhanc our Sub1 varis b incorporan sainittoranc into thm as w. And, in work that is dirctratd to dain with th hor das and nihts of tomorrow, w ar (1) dvopin varis that can cop
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