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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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IRRI gathers researchers to advance breeding programs around the world
01.10.18-
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IRRI together with the Excellence in Breeding (EiB) program and the Genomic Open-Source Breeding Inf…
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Free community labour: critical to Ethiopia’s drive to restore land and improve livelihoods
01.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia have provided huge amounts of time and labour, free of…
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Fish farmers celebrate tilapia harvest in Timor-Leste
01.10.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Partnership for Aquaculture Development in Timor-Leste (PADTL), a five-year project funded by …
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IFPRI Research Day: Brookings’ Homi Kharas on overcoming obstacles to meeting the SDGs
28.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, KATRINA KOSEC AND JESSICA HECKERT It’s a troubled time for global food secur…
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IFPRI report: How China and Africa can promote cooperation in agricultural modernization
28.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XINYUAN SHANG AND LIWEN ZHANG Agriculture is key to improving food security and reducing poverty…
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Empowering women farmers to lead agricultural transformation
28.09.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
A network of women farmer leaders are set to drive widespread adoption of innovations and…
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Working to boost food production in Africa: IRRI joins hands with CGIAR sister centers to help the continent achieve 90% rice self-sufficiency by 2025
27.09.18-
Food security
28 September 2018, Kenya - Today, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) opened a new…
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Strengthening agricultural research in Kenya
26.09.18-
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Agriculture plays a key role in Kenya’s economy and national development, accounting for 70% of…
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IFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs
25.09.18-
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Nutrition
BY DAVID ARONSON While the potential harms of raising livestock and consuming meat, milk, and…
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IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar works together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity
24.09.18-
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IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …
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IRRI discovers SWEET solution to bacterial blight
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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IRRI is leading innovations to provide adequate solutions to problems such as bacterial blight which…
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Webinar: Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Lessons learned from South-South knowledge exchange
20.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this webinar on October 4, we will summarize major lessons about mechanization learned from…
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IRRI transforms rice breeding processes through market-oriented product profiling
19.09.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI is purposefully engaging with farmers to inform policies and establish standards that transform…
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Sharing China’s agricultural experience to help solve Africa’s development challenges
18.09.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agricultural cooperation was one of the main topics at the recent 2018 Beijing Summit of the…
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Regenerating crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
18.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is regenerating massive amounts of crop wild relatives in their place of origin –…
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Water, ecosystems, human development – we can’t have one without the others
18.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Keynote address by UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina MohammedPhoto by Adam Hunt / WLE…
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IRRI-supported Rice Corp wins the prestigious Hult Prize
18.09.18-
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Nutrition
September 16, New York, USA -- Rice Corp (currently known as SunRice), in partnership with…
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Forests: an overlooked resource for tackling micronutrient deficiency
17.09.18-
Food security
A study by the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute argues that forests are an overlooked re…
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