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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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Digital transformation: have new data systems contributed to more sustainable small-scale fisheries in Timor-Leste?
29.02.24-
Food security
For a while, data – both big and small – was going to be the…
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Vietnam MARD awards the Asian Mega-Deltas Initiative and IRRI for supporting the country’s sustainable development
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) of Vietnam awarded a Certificate of Merit…
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CGIAR Seed Equal Initiative highlights women and smallholder farmers’ inclusion in seed information and delivery
27.02.24-
Food security
09-10 January 2024 (HYDERABAD, India) – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) organized…
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Ukraine and global agricultural markets two years later
26.02.24-
Food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion …
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The First National Rice Stakeholders’ Conference in Kenya targets rice self-sufficiency by 2030 through plant breeding innovations and collaborations
22.02.24-
Food security
16 NOVEMBER 2023 (NAIROBI, Kenya) – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in collaborat…
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Farmers Field Day promotes high-yield rice varieties and climate-smart agronomy to increase the productivity and income of Kenyan farmers
22.02.24-
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07 February 2024 (HOMA BAY COUNTY, Kenya) –The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) held a…
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How Assam’s fallow season can be transformed into a season of productivity
22.02.24-
Food security
Agriculture in Assam is characterized by low productivity because of frequent floods, drought, lack …
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IRRI and ISABU join efforts in revolutionizing rice farming by availing good quality rice seeds
21.02.24-
Food security
The Burundi office of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Institute of Agronomi…
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Quality and quantity of data from varietal selections encourage the adoption of improved rice varieties in sub-Saharan Africa
19.02.24-
Food security
While most breeding efforts are focused on producing improved rice varieties, farmers in sub-Saharan…
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IRRI and Department of Agriculture sign agreement anew to boost PH rice industry development
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (18 February 2023) - The Philippine Department of Agriculture entered into a Mem…
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SeedCast brings improved, high-yielding rice varieties closer to Tanzanian farmers
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By Martin Ndomondo , Dr Daniel Menge , and Dr Ajay Panchbhai SeedCast-Tanzania was officially…
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ILRI joins new EU-funded research consortium to develop African swine fever vaccine
15.02.24-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has partnered with a consortium of 16 institut…
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SpeedFlower: a comprehensive speed breeding protocol for indica and japonica rice
14.02.24-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
SpeedFlower for indica and japonica rice offers a promising solution for addressing the limitations …
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Delta Talks webinar 2024 lineup announced
12.02.24-
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A collaboration between the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) and Wageningen University & …
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A Finger on the Pulse
10.02.24-
Food security
An Op-ed By Dr. Aladdin Hamwieh, Crop Breeder and Biotechnologist, ICARDA. On World Pulses Day,…
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Ponds of prosperity: Sustained interventions boost aquaculture and nutrition security in Myanmar
06.02.24-
Food security
Sustained interventions to promote best management practices (BMPs) and improve nutrition have shown…
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ILRI teams up with partners for new animal health systems project in Africa
30.01.24-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has teamed up with the University of Missouri,…
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Impacts of Red Sea shipping disruptions on global food security
17.01.24-
Food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND ABDULLAH MAMUN JANUARY 17, 2024 OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The recent…
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