Sowing the Seeds of Rice Science: Achievements and Future Directions for Training at IRRI
- ISBN-10
- 9712202887
- ISBN-13
- 9789712202889
- Category
- Rice farming
- Pages
- 75
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Int. Rice Res. Inst.
- Author
- Imelda M. Revilla-Molina
Description
Human capacity building is the heart and soul of IRRI's past and future. For more than 50 years, IRRI has provided training to a total of 11,599 national scientists around the world, 22% of which were female. More than 10,000 personnel benefited from nondegree training and about 1,600 were supported in their MS/PhD programs. No other center in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research has trained as many professionals. The result is that, in every corner of the rice-growing world, one can find personnel who have been to Los Baños. IRRI management has from the very beginning recognized the need for training in both research and extension activities in order to achieve a sustained increase in rice production. Yet, until now, there has been no close examination of the training program. Our objective in this report has been to reconstruct the database, examine the trends and changes over time in training activities, and raise issues regarding the future of the training program.
