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xiname, and release varieties. Thus, IRRI’s success is intimately linked with thatof rice research workers everywhere. The genes for Cooperation spread by IRRIboth in rice material and among rice scientists are the foundation for a brightfuture for rice farmers.The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)-a consortium of donors organized in 1971 by the Food and Agriculture Organizationof the United Nations (FAO), the International Bank for Reconstructionand Development (IBRD) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP)-can be proud of its role in strengthening and stabilizing the financial foundationof IRRI and of the other International Agricultural Research Centers. TheQuinquennial Review Mission, which examined for the CGIAR IRRI’s work inearly 1982, reported “in economic terms, investments in IRRI of about US$20million/year generate an added value of about $1.5 billion/year in increasedrice production.”Such a significant development in human history should be correctlychronicled at a time when the world is permeated with discord rather thanharmony, conflict rather than cooperation, and doomsday predictions ratherthan optimism for human destiny. We owe a debt of gratitude to Bob andSunny Chandler, both for their labor of love and for their message of hope.M.S. SwaminathanDirector General, IRRI,and Independent Chairman,Food and Agriculture Council
ForewordThe use of the word adventure in this book is wholly appropriate. The authorbrings you into the adventure and makes you feel akin to those who workedtogether to establish the International Rice Research Institute as the first of,and, today, one of the world’s leading international agricultural researchcenters.The writing of this adventure was an adventure in itself. Frosty Hill and BobChandler were both present at the start of the adventure in the late 1950s andremained an intimate hard-working part of it well into the 1970s. After Hillretired from the IRRI Board in 1978, he agreed to start setting down events andnames important to IRRI over its almost 20 years of operation. When his healthstarted to fail in 1979, Hill felt he could not handle the history alone and in 1980Chandler agreed to join Hill in a joint effort to produce the IRRI story. By 1981,Hill felt he couldn’t continue the work and asked Chandler to carry on alone.Drawing on his keen memory, on a diary that he kept religiously over theyears, and on an efficiently organized personal library, Chandler has filled thisbook with details, personal observations, and anecdotes that pull you into theIRRI adventure.Why such a book?The IRRI adventure tells the story of a truly remarkable internationalagricultural research center. The impact of IRRI through rice research and thebenefits it has brought to rice farmers and mankind throughout the developingworld is immeasurable. It goes beyond rice. It extends to a growing familyof international research centers. Somewhere, even today, there are those whowill ask, “What does it take to inspire creation of such a Center? What is requiredto put together an Institute like IRRI?”The answers are provided by Chandler in these seven concise chapters.Bob Chandler's name is on this book. It is basically his story. The input ofFrosty Hill is also recognized. But the work of Sunny Chandler, the lady whowas IRRI’s first, although unofficial, secretary, and Bobs most ardent supporterthroughout the adventure, must also be noted. She served as Bobsadviser-critic on the first drafts of the manuscript, did all typing of the finaldraft, and put her professional knowledge of the English language to work asan in-house editor throughout.IRRI Editor Walt Rockwood spent 2 days with the Chandlers on theirMassachusetts farm during the final stages of editing; the Chandlers lateradded final touches and checked galley proofs at IRRI. Gloria Argosino, IRRI
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