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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-
Big data
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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Shattering food, nutrition, and economic security barriers in Bangladesh through mixed farming systems
02.06.24-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Mixed farming systems in traditional agricultural systems provide potentially many benefits for smal…
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Bioseed and IRRI extend collaboration for developing next-generation rice varieties
31.05.24Photo: Dr. Paresh Verma and Devadatta Sirdeshpande during their tour of IRRI facilities, accompanied…
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IRRI and DA reach more farmers through cluster approach
31.05.24-
Food security
IRRI and DA-ATI launched CLeveR, an initiative to provide farmers with tailored solutions through th…
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Understanding the information gender gap when talking to women farmers about seeds
27.05.24-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Participatory approaches, such as user testing, to assess the effectiveness of information pathways …
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Prepaid irrigation cards and AWD may unlock a more sustainable rice farming future for Bangladesh
27.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Prepaid irrigation card usage by farmers in the Barind area of Bangladesh can facilitate wider…
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DA-BAR and IRRI launch online platform for PH digital ag tools
23.05.24-
Food security
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA (16 May 2024) - The Department of Agriculture - Bureau of…
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Accelerating multi-level rice-based farming systems in the Philippines
21.05.24-
Food security
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines (20 May 2024) - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Good…
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IRRI Seed Health and Logistics Unit leads quality management and cost recovery systems implementation across the CGIAR CoP at the 7th CGIAR GHU Workshop
20.05.24-
Food security
CIAT, COLOMBIA, 15 April 2024 — Germplasm/Seed health units staff members from various CGIAR cente…
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Unearthing old rice germplasm, illuminating a new way to improvement
20.05.24-
Food security
Scientists are delving into molecular genetics to enhance crop yield per unit. This approach hinges…
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Dialogues on challenges facing the varietal turnover in Seed Accelerator Meet
15.05.24-
Food security
Varanasi, India - April 22, 2024 Key stakeholders of the national seed systems formalized a…
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CLRRI and IRRI identify 12 potential salinity-tolerant rice lines for the Cuu Long Delta
13.05.24-
Adaptation
CLRRI and IRRI identified 12 potential salinity-tolerant rice lines for cultivation in Vietnam’s C…
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Building a climate-smarter Tanzania
13.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In a climate change scenario, a team of researchers and scholars from SUA, UCPH, IRRI,…
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Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ participation in climate policy processes
13.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Indigenous Peoples have been portrayed as highly vulnerable to climate change while at the same…
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KALRO and IRRI organize Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, sharing improved rice varieties and training farmers on climate-smart agronomy
06.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
KALRO and IRRI jointly held a Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, Kenya where they…
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Breeding rice for salinity tolerance and salt-affected soils in Africa: A review
06.05.24-
Adaptation
Soil salinity is one of the most severe and common abiotic stresses affecting Africa’s rice…
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MARD, Can Tho City, and IRRI launch model farms for sustainable rice production
03.05.24-
Food security
Department of Crop Production-Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (DCP-MARD), Department o…
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IRRI and MARD launch technical guidelines and manual for sustainable rice production
03.05.24-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Crop Production (DCP) - Minis…
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RiceMoRe – a digital data platform to systematically advance rice production management in Vietnam
02.05.24-
Food security
The Department of Crop Production (DCP), in collaboration with the Center for Agricultural Digital T…
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