What's on IRRI's table? by GRAIN | 1 Apr 2009 A photo essay by GRAIN about IRRI - The International Rice Research Institute - at the eve of it's 50th birthday. A photo essay by GRAIN about IRRI - The International Rice Research Institute - at the eve of it's 50th birthday.
The mobile seed festival by GRAIN | 1 Jun 2007 Every year in mid-January India-wide there are celebrations around the harvest of crops, one such festival is the Makar Sankrati. On that day several version of prayers are performed on the field for the crops that start coming in. This day of harvest is considered all the more auspicious when it occurs in a leap year. In the Southern India State of Andhra Pradesh, in Medak District’s Pastapur village communities celebrate the diversity of their seeds in a unique month long Mobile Biodiversity Festival. A photo essay by GRAIN Every year in mid-January India-wide there are celebrations around the harvest of crops, one such festival is the Makar Sankrati. On that day several version of prayers are performed on the field for the crops that start coming in. This day of harvest is considered all the more auspicious when it occurs in a leap year. In the Southern India State of Andhra Pradesh, in Medak District’s Pastapur village communities celebrate the diversity of their seeds in a unique month long Mobile Biodiversity Festival. A photo essay by GRAIN
Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India. A photo essay by GRAIN | 1 Jun 2007 Bir is a small village in the Kangra district of the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is in the Deer Park Institute located at Bir that GRAIN along with its Indian collaborators – Kalpavriksh environment action group and other friends organised a North India level regional workshop on the “Biodiversity Regulation – Legality & Reality” through 17-18 May 2007. The setting in a microcosm reflected the threats to both natural diversity and diverse cultures across the globe; yet it showed people’s resolve to continue to strive and how little efforts could go a long way. Bir is a small village in the Kangra district of the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is in the Deer Park Institute located at Bir that GRAIN along with its Indian collaborators – Kalpavriksh environment action group and other friends organised a North India level regional workshop on the “Biodiversity Regulation – Legality & Reality” through 17-18 May 2007. The setting in a microcosm reflected the threats to both natural diversity and diverse cultures across the globe; yet it showed people’s resolve to continue to strive and how little efforts could go a long way.
The Great Yield Forward? A photo essay on China's hybrid rice by GRAIN | 20 Jan 2007 In September 2006 GRAIN went to rural Yunnan and Sichuan, two of China's major rice farming areas, to interview farmers about their experience growing hybrid rice. A full report from this trip is available in the January 2007 issue of Seedling: (http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=455) Photos in this photo essay are taken by GRAIN staff, with consent of the subject in most cases, and are free of copyright. You can download the PDF version of the essay In September 2006 GRAIN went to rural Yunnan and Sichuan, two of China's major rice farming areas, to interview farmers about their experience growing hybrid rice. A full report from this trip is available in the January 2007 issue of Seedling: (http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=455) Photos in this photo essay are taken by GRAIN staff, with consent of the subject in most cases, and are free of copyright. You can download the PDF version of the essay
A genebank in tatters by GRAIN | 16 Jan 2007 On 28 September 2006, the Philippines was hit by a category 4 storm called bagyong Milenyo (which means ‘typhoon Millennium’ in the Tagalog language). The town of Los Baños, in the province of Laguna, 60 kilometres southeast of Manila, was in the direct path of this mid-season fiend. This photo essay documents the nearlly complete destruction of the Philippine national genebank, the National Plant Genetic Resources Laboratory On 28 September 2006, the Philippines was hit by a category 4 storm called bagyong Milenyo (which means ‘typhoon Millennium’ in the Tagalog language). The town of Los Baños, in the province of Laguna, 60 kilometres southeast of Manila, was in the direct path of this mid-season fiend. This photo essay documents the nearlly complete destruction of the Philippine national genebank, the National Plant Genetic Resources Laboratory