After a slow start with multiple issues caused by the pandemic, our "Climate-smart African rice" project funded by Danida is now making excellent progess.

Elisa's prestigious Marie-Curie postdoc fellowship has now come to an end and she has now returned to her home university in Northern Italy - we wish her ALL THE BEST for the future!

Max Stecher has now graduated with a MSc degree form the EnvEuro programme. Max has conducted a GIS-based study where he extracted climatic data and soil characteristics from more than 10,000 worldwide occurrences of wild rice.

A new group of BSc thesis students have now successfully defended their theses and after completing some very exciting projects, they are now all ready for the MSc study.

When I first visited Prof Moto at Nagoya University, I was amazed by a time-lapse video that a student had made. It showed how fast the rhizomes of Oryza longistaminata spread and colonized bare soil.