Cambodia: Forum on loan products and banking services held for rice postharvest sector
The multistakeholder Cambodia Postharvest Learning Alliance sponsored the third business roundtable, Loan products and banking services for the postharvest sector, in Kampong Thom Province on 18 August 2012. The forum featured presentations on postharvest losses and mitigation, business plans for piloting technologies with stakeholders, and information on loan products and financial services from local microfinance institutions ACLEDA, PRASAC, Amret, Sathapana, and VisionFund. More >
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IRRI showcases research in Philippine agriculture fair
IRRI joined several government agencies and businesses in the 8th Agriculture and Fisheries Technology Forum and Product Exhibition on 9-12 August 2012 at Mega Trade Hall in SM Megamall. IRRI's participation was a response to an invitation from Nicomedes Eleazar, director of the Bureau of Agricultural Research of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA-BAR), through V. Bruce J. Tolentino, deputy director general for communications and partnerships. More >
Blog | Sam Mohanty
Looming drought in India: what’s at stake for the global rice market?
More than half way into the monsoon season, many Indian states continue to reel under deficient rainfall. Many experts feel this monsoon is worse than even the 2009 season when drought reduced Indian rice production by more than 10 percent. But it is still too early to gauge the extent of damage to rice production because of deficit rainfall. More >
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Incoming GRiSP director is guest in researchers' lunch
Bas Bouman, head of IRRI CESD and newly named director of GRiSP, was the guest scientist during the Young Researchers Lunch for August. Participants were Balwinder Singh, Nikos Tsakirpaloglou, Sharifa Sultana Dipti, Yam Kanta Gaihre, Annette Tobias, and Elenor de Leon. More >
News | Human resources
Training held on writing job profiles to aid career path process of local staff
Ninety-five IRRI HQ-based staff from a range of disciplines and job levels attended 4 half-day sessions of Writing Job Profiles, a training workshop held on 15 and 16 August 2012. The training was jointly facilitated by Human Resource Services and Towers Watson, a leading global professional services company. In the coming weeks, several country office-based staff will receive the same training. More >
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Invitation to join Social Science Network
SSD is inviting the following to join the Social Science Network: economists, anthropologists, sociologists, human ecologists, psychologists, geographers, public policy specialists, political scientists, marketing specialists, business model specialists, and other related social science disciplines who have completed or are in the process of completing a graduate degree (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) and have at least 1 year of developing country experience; and social scientists across the globe with research interests or experience in Southeast Asia and South Asia on rice-based cropping systems.
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