The purposes of Feeding a Hungry World: Focus on Rice in Asia and the Pacific are to introduce students to the diversity of rice culture and rice-based farming systems in Asia and the Pacific and to help provide students with skills to prepare for the needs of the future global population. Students will focus on six rice-producing countries: Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, and Thailand (http://spice.stanford.edu/catalog/feeding_a_hungry_world_focus_on_rice_i...)