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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
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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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Klaus Lampe, IRRI’s fifth director general, passes away in Germany
08.02.24by Gene Hettel Klaus J. Lampe, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI,…
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Learning continuity ensured: IRRI turns over the online Rice: Research to Production course to DA
08.02.24MANILA, Philippines, 2 February, 2024 - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Phi…
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5G technology and smart agriculture to aid Indian farmers
08.02.24photo credit: IWMI/Prashanth Vishwanathan By Shalini Gakhar, Sheetal Sharma and Rabi Sahoo Since Oct…
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Tackling food system challenges through silvopasture: insights from an expert workshop
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Environmental health & biodiversity
With 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions planet-wide, the livestock sector is at the center…
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Unveiling the potential of sweetpotato: Insights from the Sweetpotato Stakeholder Workshop
07.02.24Greetings, sweetpotato enthusiasts! Have you ever wondered why, despite the vast number of sweetpota…
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India’s export restrictions on rice continue to disrupt global markets, supplies, and prices
07.02.24BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND ABDULLAH MAMUN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Six months after India introduced…
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Evaluation On the Ground: Insights from CIP and IITA Genebanks
07.02.24In a recent interview, we sat down with Sarah Humphrey and David Coombs, co-leads of…
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CGIAR’s new Executive Managing Director discusses opportunities to support Sri Lanka’s development priorities with Prime Minister
07.02.24Ismahane Elouafi visited the country to learn more about IWMI’s work and ways to leverage…
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The East Africa Pastoralist Expo: A User-Centered Rangeland Water Source Monitoring & Early Warning System in Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia
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Environmental health & biodiversity
One of the highlights of this event was the participation of CGIAR, represented by the…
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Announcement of the winners of the first Joint Open Innovation Challenge of the Moonshots for Development partnership on AI for Climate Resilience in Rural Areas
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The initiative, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural …
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Radical innovation to buzzword bingo: the spread of gender-transformative approaches in agricultural research-for-development
06.02.24New research identifies the drivers of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) in agricultural resea…
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Ponds of prosperity: Sustained interventions boost aquaculture and nutrition security in Myanmar
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Food security
Sustained interventions to promote best management practices (BMPs) and improve nutrition have shown…
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The blissful taste of Andaki
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino This is really good! That’s my prompt review of the…
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Institutional Change in Polder Water Management Governance Brings Revolutionary Potential in Bangladesh
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Salma Begum and Hamidul Huq, IDSS-UIU and Ahmad Salahuddin, IRRI “Cropping intensity of thousan…
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New podcast explores policy coherence and system transformation in food, land and water
06.02.24Policy Pathways, produced by IWMI, examines policies for sustainable development and climate resilie…
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Summit on the efficient and profitable use of rice straw held in Cambodia
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To discuss ways to maximize the use of rice straw for the benefit of rice…
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Impact of rural outmigration on women and women empowerment through entrepreneurship discussed at Krushi Odisha 2024
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
(14 January 2024) Women empowerment through agro-entrepreneurship and the impact of rural outmigrati…
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Odisha Government and IRRI seal new agreement to promote agro-entrepreneurship among women
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
(13 January 2024) A new tripartite agreement between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI…
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