IRRI scientists are among the recipients of medals from Vietnam’s Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Development that were presented in September this year. They were awarded during the 60th anniversary of the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences for the cause of agriculture and rural development of Vietnam.
The recipients were Reiner Wassmann (senior scientist and coordinator, Rice and Climate Change Consortium), Gerard Barry (leader, Golden Rice Project) and Romeo Labios (consultant, CLUES
project).
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
CURE joins IFAD gender skills training for trainers
The Consortium for Unfavorable Rice Environments (CURE) took part in the Gender-based effectiveness skills training, or G-BEST, organized by the IFAD Philippines Program Office held on 3-8 September 2012.
Digna Manzanilla, IRRI social scientist and associate CURE coordinator, and Annette Tobias, CURE assistant scientist, were the representatives in the training course, which aimed to equip gender trainers and enhance cognitive and action learning on gender-based effectiveness among IFAD project staff.
“We expect our participants to be able to utilize the Gender Mainstreaming Strategic Focus that was drafted by the IFAD-Philippines Gender Network in coming up with their respective action plans on enhancing gender mainstreaming,” explained Virginia Verora, IFAD gender coordinator. Participants should be able to deliver the training program for their project partners to instill gender-consciousness and apply knowledge and approaches in promoting gender equality and women empowerment objectives more effectively.
The training was attended by 16 (14 women and 2 men) participants from various IFAD-supported projects in the Philippines and was a follow up to a previous training on the same topic. It was held at the Tagaytay International Convention Center in Cavite, Philippines.
Resource persons came from the Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development of the Department of Agrarian Reform, and IFAD Philippines.
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Philippines: IRRI takes part in Congress hearing on NM Rice commendation
The Committee on Information and Communications Technology of the Philippine House of Representatives has invited IRRI to share its views and recommendations regarding House Resolution 905, commending SMART Communications and Globe Telecoms in partnering with the Department of Agriculture and IRRI in the implementation of the NM Rice Mobile Project.
Bruce Tolentino, deputy director general for communications and partnerships, and Marco van den Berg, chief information officer, attended the committee hearing. HR 905 was authored by Angelo Palmones, AGHAM Party List representative.
The hearing also became an opportunity for Dr. Tolentino and Mr. van den Berg to inform committee members, composed of 51 congressmen, not only more about the NM Rice Project but about IRRI's other partnerships with the Philippine Government, especially with the Department of Agriculture.
Upon hearing these elaborations, Rep. Palmones amended the resolution to commend IRRI directly. He also called on SMART, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), and Sun Cellular to work on enabling NM Rice Mobile on their systems at the soonest possible time. At the moment, NM is operational only on the Globe network.
Dr. Tolentino also met with Rep. Palmones for further briefing, and will follow up on collaborations between IRRI and AGHAM Party List.
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Bangladesh: CSISA specialist wins best paper award
Harun-Ur Rashid, cropping systems specialist of the Khulna Hub of CSISA Bangladesh, won the best session paper award for Increasing productivity of rice-rice cropping system adopting short duration rice and mustard and relay cropping, which he presented during the International Conference on Environment, Agriculture, and Food Sciences held in Phuket, Thailand, on 11-12 August 2012.
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IRRI holds fourth research data management course for 2012
The fourth and last installment for the year of the Research Data Management (RDM) 101 training course started today, 11 September 2012, at the I.T. Learning Center in IRRI and will run for three half-days until 13 September.
The course aims to teach IRRI research staff good practices in gathering and managing research data. It covers organizing raw data in spreadsheets and databases; and data manipulation, checking, and validation. File management tools are also introduced and demonstrations conducted.
Ten participants, composed of researchers, interns and M.S./Ph.D. scholars from IRRI's various units, are attending the course.
Research data management is an important area of responsible conduct of research. Research data should be managed, shared, and preserved properly; management of it ought to be planned well right from the start of any project.
Resource persons were Marco van den Berg (chief information officer) and Rogelio Alvarez (IT manager for operations).
The RMQA-RDM 101 training team is composed of Menchu Bernardo, Icoy Mercado, and Dec Arreza. The next RDM 101 will be offered in 2013.
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