IRRI medium-term plan 2000-2002

Overview of Rolling MTP, 2000-2002

Descriptions of 27 IRRI Projects by Program, including milestones for 2000, 2001, and 2002. Information for each project includes rationale and objectives, outputs, impact, milestones, gender audit, users, collaborators, CGIAR system linkages, and 2000 budget: 

• IR1: Breeding to break yield ceilings: a systems approach
• IR2: The sustainability of intensive rice-rice and rice-wheat systems
• IR3: Increasing water-use efficiency in rice culture
• IR4: Improving pest management
• IR5: Irrigated Rice Research Consortium

• RL1: Managing crop, soil, and water resources for enhanced productivity and sustainability of lowland areas
• RL2: Crop and resource management for deeply flooded and coastal areas
• RL3: Germplasm improvement for rainfed lowland and flood-prone areas
• RL4: Rainfed Lowland Rice Research Consortium
• RL5: Flood-prone Rice Research Consortium
• UR1: Genetic improvement of upland rice
• UR2: Improved productivity and sustainability of farming systems in upland rice areas
• UR3: Upland Rice Research Consortium
• CE1: Functional genomics
• CE2: Applying biotechnology to accelerate rice breeding and broaden the rice genepool
• CE3: Exploiting biodiversity for sustainable pest management
• CE4: Rice--a way of life for the next generation of rice farmers
• CE5: Socioeconomic studies for technology impact, gender, and policy analysis
• CE6: Implementing ecoregional approaches to improve natural resource management in Asia
• GC1: Conservation of rice and biofertilizer genetic resources
• GC2: Delivery of genetic resources: the International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Rice (INGER)
• GC3: The International Rice Information System (IRIS)
• GC4: Seed health testing services
• IM1: Strengthening partnership with NARS
• IM2: Delivery of knowledge-intensive technologies (KIT): Crop and Resource Management Network (CREMNET)
• IM3: Collecting, exchanging, and distributing knowledge and information about rice
• IM4: Human capital development of NARS rice professionals

Research progress in 1998 by project: updates and next step activities of projects identified with the 1998-2003 Rolling MTP 

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