Rice is a strategic commodity for food security in West Africa. Its consumption has grown rapidly over time as a result … of population growth, urbanization, and increasing purchasing power. Dependency on imported rice exposes the region to … developed a national strategy for rice development alongside their agricultural sector-wide policy. In addition, the Economic …

Abiotic stresses such as droughts and floods significantly constrain rice production in India. New stress …

rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia’s Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against … Health Surveys (1997 to 2011) with district-level estimates of rice yields. Using various panel estimators, they find rice … yields significantly explain weight gain in young children but not linear growth. The authors further show that rice yields …

In Bangladesh—one of the poorest countries in Asia, where rice accounts for almost 70 percent of consumers' caloric … intake—the share of the less expensive, low-quality coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and the … quality premium for the best-quality rice has been consistently on the rise in the last decades. It thus seems that the role …