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Table of Contents

1.1  Protrait of a Revolution

1.1.1 The Engine Driving the Green Revolution

1.1.2 The Machinery for the Revolution

1.1.3 The Impact of the Revolution

1.2  IRRI in the 1990s

2.1  Values and Guiding Principles

2.2  Legal Matters

2.3  Finances

2.4  Management and Decision-Making

2.5  IRRI in the Philippines

3.0 Facing the Right Challenges?

3.1 Research

3.1.1 Policy Areas

3.1.2 Research Priorities

3.1.3 Research Strategy

3.1.4 International Support Programs

3.2 Breeding

3.2.1 A New Breeding Agenda

3.2.2 Shady Science

3.2.3 Biotechnology

3.3 Conservation

3.3.1 IRRI's Conservation Agenda

3.3.2 The Conservation Agenda IRRI Left Out

3.4 Crop and Resource Management

3.4.1 Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

3.4.2 Integrated Nutrient Management (INM)

3.4.3 Cropping Systems

3.4.4 Sustainability

3.5 Outreach

3.5.1 Publications and Communications

3.5.2 Interactions with Collaborators

4.1 Methodology

4.1.1 Current Scientific Paradigms

4.1.2 IRRI's Research Paradigm

4.1.3 Challenging the Central Dogma

4.1.4 Implications for IRRI

4.2 Partners, Clients, Beneficiaries and "End Users"

5.1 Intellectual Property Rights and IRRI's Assets

5.1.1 The Legal Status of IRRI's Genebank

5.1.2 "Trusteeship"

5.1.3 IRRI's Policy on Intellectual Property Rights

5.2 Biosafety

5.2.1 The Blast Scandal

5.2.2 A Framework in Place

5.2.3 The Transgenic Rice Debate

Appendices