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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
09.07.25-
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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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Open-access agrifood system data from 4,000 households across Bangladesh, India, and Nepal
20.03.24-
Big data
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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-
Food security
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-
Food security
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-
Food security
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-
Food security
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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-
Food security
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
06.03.24-
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Gender equality
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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-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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-
Food security
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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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
29.02.24-
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Nutrition, health & food security
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-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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