@article{International:281812,
      recid = {281812},
      author = {International Rice Research Institute},
      title = {Bringing Hope, Improving Lives},
      address = {2006-01},
      number = {611-2019-123},
      pages = {64},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {We describe herein the changing world that has rendered  the previous plan out-of--date because the changes are  happening so fast and have by no means stopped; the world  of rice in particular is in a rapid demographic,  technological, and social transition (Chapter 1). We then  describe the broad foundation of successful collaboration  in which IRRI has continued to work with many institutions  across disciplines, localities, and ecosystems (Chapter 2).  This has positioned the Institute to respond with  substantial optimism to both the known and as yet unknown  new challenges implied by these ongoing changes toward  helping achieve the MDGs, especially the three related to  hunger and poverty, environmental sustainability, and  nutrition and health. The plan that we present has five  strategic goals that contribute to addressing each of the  MDGs. Together they represent a changed role for IRRI,  perhaps one of the most significant changes in its 46-year  history (Chapter 3). IRRI will shift from filling the rice  bowl to filling the purse, from general crop management to  environmentally sustainable management and adaptation to  climate change, and with greater concern about health  aspects and the nutritional value of rice. It will send our  scientists more into country offices around Asia and for  the first time since the late 1990s into the newly  prominent rice fields of sub-Saharan Africa. IRRI will  address not only rice but also ways in which farmers can  diversify their crops to improve their incomes.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/281812},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.281812},
}