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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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Empowering Women Farmers through STIBs: Insights from Multi-stakeholder Dialogues in Makaltala and Balarampur Learning Labs, West Bengal, India
20.02.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Climate change is exacerbating the uncertainty and risks for farmers and other food systems actors…
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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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Food security
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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
16.02.24-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Martin Ndomondo , Dr Daniel Menge , and Dr Ajay Panchbhai SeedCast-Tanzania was officially…
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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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Rice breeding research becomes globally integrated
12.02.24CGIAR has launched a major new crop-focused global breeding research program that brings together it…
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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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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
06.02.24-
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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Rice residue burning trajectories in Eastern India: Current realities, scenarios of change, and implications for air quality
06.02.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Bihar State Government is aware of the risks associated with increasing agricultural burning, bu…
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A newly identified elite pool of salinity-tolerant genotypes promises to deliver higher genetic gains
05.02.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study identified an elite pool of the best salinity-tolerant genotypes that will provide…
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Lessons learned from four low-emission technologies implemented by Thai Rice NAMA Project
02.02.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) recently held a workshop to share the data gathered…
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Rice-fallow targeting for cropping intensification through geospatial technologies in the rice belt of Northeast India
01.02.24Around 80% of India’s rice production is from the eastern Indian states of Odisha, West…
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BASF and IRRI join forces to reduce carbon footprint of rice
31.01.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BASF and IRRI to study multiple options to enhance climate smart farming and improve carbon…
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Flood-tolerant rice for enhanced production and livelihood of smallholder farmers of Africa
29.01.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Africa’s average rice yield lags significantly behind Asia, with African farmers harvesting an ave…
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Webinar: Socio-Technical Innovation Bundling to Strengthen Women's Resilience to Climate Change: Distilling Learnings from Case Studies
23.01.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
We are delighted to invite you to the Webinar on "Socio-technical innovation bundling to strengthen…
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