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Societal resilience of rice. Chinese female farmers rank the quality of rice prepared from different cultivars based on their culturally determined preferences and allocating a certain number of maize kernels to indicate the rank of preference. Rice cultivars play an important role in local food and seed sovereignty. Picture by Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren
