India’s decision to take 10 million tonnes of rice off the global export market has sent shock waves across almost every continent.

Swapping loo rolls for rice, people have already started panic buying in the West...

Bjoern Ole Sander from the International Rice Research Institute speaks to Teymoor Nabili from the CNBC Connect event held in Bangkok, Thailand, about the challenges of reducing methane emissions from growing rice.

Fried rice is normally a popular choice among diners in Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria. Yet lately many people have stopped ordering it, says restaurant manager Toni Aladekomo.

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With the price of the dish shooting up to N4,000 ($5.20) from N1,500 a year ago, it has “stopped being affordable...

In late September, an international team of researchers fanned out across a remote New Mexico mountain range, in search of an elusive plant. The group trekked through the rugged landscape looking for signs of delicate vines hugging a tree, or lingering low on a dried creek bank.

An Indian researcher led a team that developed a rice variety that takes up less arsenic and they're now working on one that will generate less greenhouse gas emissions.

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According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 140 million people in over 70 countries drink water containing...

According to Indonesian legend, rice was bestowed upon the island of Java by the goddess Dewi Sri. Pitying its inhabitants the blandness of their existing staple, cassava, she taught them how to nurture rice seedlings in lush green paddy fields. In India, the Hindu goddess Annapurna is said to have played a similar role; in Japan, Inari. Across Asia, rice has been conferred with a divine, and usually feminine, origin story.