The following clips
provide entire productions or segments of a variety of contemporary
and historic films
and videos about IRRI and its staff members:
View the earliest film
ever produced about IRRI (1963), This is IRRI.
In an IRRI Pioneer Interview, Gary Toenniessen, a managing
director of The Rockefeller Foundation and long-
time IRRI collaborator, discusses how yellow endosperm
(i.e., Golden Rice), got on the list of desirable traits for rice
Full transcript
Luck Is the Residue of Design
(Part 1)
Peter Jennings, IRRI's first rice breeder (1961-67),
played a major role in the development of IR8, the variety that
started the Green Revolution in rice. He reminisces his
epiphany in a very engaging interview from his home in Florida.
Clips from 1991 PBS-IRRI
production
of the Seeds of Hope
T.T. Chang, IRRI's
principal
geneticist (1961-91), talks
about the value of rice's diversity.
.
Some comments on IRRI's
challenges in 2010 and beyond
Ronnie Coffman, IRRI plant breeder, 1971-81; currently chair,
Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics,
and director of International Programs, Cornell University
Susan McCouch,
IRRI associate geneticist, 1990-94;
currently
Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics,
Cornell University
Full transcript
The trouble with you economists!
Randy Barker, IRRI agricultural economist and head,
Economics Department, 1966-78; acting head, IRRI Social
Sciences Division, 2007-08, and
Robert Herdt, IRRI economist, 1973-83, head of
Economics Department, 1978-83; later director, agricultural
sciences, and vice president, The Rockefeller Foundation
Full transcript