IRRI medium-term plan 2001-2003

Below are excerpts from IRRI's Medium Term Plan 1998-2003. These pages are in Portable Document Format (pdf). View PDF files using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Print out individual pages or the entire sets. You may download Acrobat below.

Strategic overview: challenges and opportunities for rice research provides an essence of the thought that was used to develop IRRI's Medium-Term Plan (MTP)

Overview of Rolling MTP, 2001-2003  provides planned directions, which will include some significant changes to be put in place beginning in 2001.

Descriptions of 27 IRRI Projects by Program. Information for each project includes purpose (objectives/gains), outputs, indicators (duration/milestones), gender audit, users, collaborators, CGIAR system linkages, and financing plan for 2001 (as of March 2000). Significant changes (i.e., new, merging, and elimination) in these projects are currently underway (as of November 2000) in an ongoing revamping of IRRI's MTP.

• IR1: Breeding to break yield ceilings: a systems approach
• IR2: Crop management in intensive rice and rice-wheat systems: reconciling high productivity and environmental concerns
• 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 1999 by project: updates and next step activities of projects identified with the 1998-2003 Rolling MTP

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