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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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Regional Focus: Working towards healthy diets
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
IRRI's regional representative for South Asia, Nafees Meah, speaks with Geography and You to discuss…
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IRRI co-organizes multi-stakeholder dialogue to strengthen extension and advisory services in Odisha
11.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the Department of Agriculture and Fa…
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Scaling up channels for innovative digital service to reach more farmers in Odisha
06.09.19Rice Crop Manager service available at Common Service Centres (CSC) The International Rice Re…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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Rice Doctor -An innovative technological approach to enhance rice production
05.08.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Crop losses due to insect pests and diseases are a major threat to farming communities…
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IRRI, Tao Corporation sign pact for the commercialization and distribution of elite hybrid rice varieties across the Philippines
31.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Partnership seen to give local rice farmers better access to seeds of high-yielding and climate-resi…
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Addressing the effects of climate change on rice productivity: ADB, IRRI convene three-country policy workshops on scaling-up climate-smart practices for sustainable and intensive rice-based farming
18.07.19Workshops aimed at developing policy recommendations to promote widespread adoption of climat…
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Rice varietal cafeterias: An effective extension tool for promoting climate-resilient rice
08.07.19The rice varietal cafeteria provides a space where farmers and other stakeholders interact, discuss,…
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IRRI, CCAFS support the promotion of climate-smart rice production in Vietnam
05.07.19To mainstream climate change adaptation and mitigation in rice production, the National Agriculture …
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IRRI partners with social enterprise to incubate women’s producer company
05.07.19As a concerted effort to test various models of women’s entrepreneurship development in rice agri-…
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Seed Sorting: From Harvest to Genebank
11.06.19-
Biodiversity
An automatic seed sorter is now making the task of sorting seeds more efficient at…
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Launch of CIPRiSSA-Gambia report
24.04.19-
Food security
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has mandated AfricaRice to lead the development of ‘Continenta…
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IRRI, WorldFish, and IWMI commit to a food systems transformation in South and Southeast Asia
09.04.19-
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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), WorldFish, and the International Water Management …
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Direct Seeded Rice Consortium convenes first annual meeting to advance partnerships for more sustainable, environment-friendly rice systems
08.04.19-
Environmental health
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14 March 2019, IRRI Headquarters ~ The Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), a multi-stakehol…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
02.04.19-
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This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Agreement on multi-country seed-sharing reached
02.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (9–10 June 2017) - Two more countries have joined a regional seed…
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IRRI-IAARD to accelerate impact delivery with new rice research hub
01.04.19-
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01 April, 2018 – BOGOR, INDONESIA - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Direct…
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Sustainable Rice Landscapes Initiative to reduce environmental footprint of rice production
26.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Bangkok, Thailand, 26 March 2019 – A major new consortium today announced the Sustainable…
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