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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Dr Manneh, AfricaRice’s Director General, receives a presidential citation from the Republic of Korea
04.04.24-
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November 21, 2024 - Dr Baboucarr Manneh, Director General of AfricaRice has been awarded a…
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Securing the Future of Millets
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Global South Millet Convening Charts Action Plan Beyond IYM2023 Agricultural leaders, policymakers, …
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ICRISAT Welcomes New Chapter as International Year of Millets Concludes
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Food and Agriculture Leaders Commit to Continued Collaboration The International Crops Research Inst…
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UPLB, KOICA, IRRI and Key Institutions to establish agri-genomics facilities to support national competitiveness
26.03.24-
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LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (26 March 2024) - The growth of state-of-the-art agricultural genomics research a…
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IRRI-Government of Odisha partnership to strengthen state’s specialty rice segment
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(Photo: A cafeteria featuring biofortified rice varieties in Odisha) ODISHA, India (March 16, 2023) …
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For women farmers, by women farmers: Facilitating timely access to quality inputs and services through women farmer service centers
25.03.24-
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The gender gap in access to inputs has affected productivity in agriculture for the longest…
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IRRI-NARI agreement will revitalize Papua New Guinea’s rice industry
25.03.24-
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MOROBE PROVINCE, Papua New Guinea (21 March 2024) - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)…
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REMET-Rice Project supports joint training on soil spectroscopy for BSWM, UPLB, and IRRI scientists
20.03.24-
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LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (16 March 2024) – Scientists from the Philippine Department of Agriculture Bure…
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Open-access agrifood system data from 4,000 households across Bangladesh, India, and Nepal
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South Asia, home to one quarter of the global population, faces issues such as poverty,…
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Famine in Gaza
18.03.24-
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By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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IRRI and AfricaRice collaborate on developing and delivering improved and localized rice varieties to smallholder farmers in Africa
18.03.24-
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As a continuation of accelerating and modernizing the breeding programs through the Accelerating Gen…
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Experience of farmers using mobile phone for farming information flow in boro rice production: A case of Eastern Gangetic Plain
11.03.24-
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This research was inspired by exploring another technique farmers have adopted: accessing informatio…
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New Discovery in Peanut Defense Mechanisms Offers Hope for Disease Resistance
10.03.24-
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Nutrition, health & food security
The discovery of a natural defense mechanism in peanut that resists fungal infection holds promise…
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Philippine Agriculture Secretary visits IRRI Headquarters to explore collaboration opportunities for boosting rice sector
08.03.24-
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LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (6 March 2024) – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) welcomed the…
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Asian Mega-Deltas Initiative engages partners in strategic planning for sustainable and inclusive delta development
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To strengthen its strategy, cooperation, and results management, the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-…
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The path forward on global food system transformation
01.03.24-
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BY CATERINA RUGGERI LADERCHI, JOHAN SWINNEN, AND TAMSIN ZANDSTRA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Every year,…
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When it comes to aquaculture species, Indian farmers prefer to go with what they know
01.03.24-
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Fish farmers in India’s Odisha State are yet to appreciate the multiple benefits of improved…
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Better, or better not? The opportunities and challenges for sustainable intensification of small-scale aquaculture in Myanmar
29.02.24-
Food security
New research from Myanmar suggests that diversification in small-scale fish farming can make a posit…
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