The fierce storms and heavy rain that have pounded California in recent weeks could be the lifeline that one industry — and the communities that rely on it for their own survival — desperately needs.

Images of rice “pyramids” posted by news outlets across Nigeria in January are a reminder that Nigeria once had a proud history of agricultural production. The country was Africa’s foremost ...

Rice farming is hard. It’s complicated. Traditional rice farming takes twice the amount of labor as crops like wheat, corn and potatoes. Paddy rice was built on irrigation networks that forced farmers ...