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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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IRRI and Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and Planning highlight resource mobilization efforts to boost agri-food sector
11.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
09 October 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh - The vital importance of investing in research for…
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IRRI and partners enhance farmer livelihood through new rice straw composting technique
02.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Rice straw is a natural byproduct of rice production. Each kilogram of milled rice produces…
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IRRI gathers researchers to advance breeding programs around the world
01.10.18-
Food security
IRRI together with the Excellence in Breeding (EiB) program and the Genomic Open-Source Breeding Inf…
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Empowering women farmers to lead agricultural transformation
28.09.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
A network of women farmer leaders are set to drive widespread adoption of innovations and…
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Working to boost food production in Africa: IRRI joins hands with CGIAR sister centers to help the continent achieve 90% rice self-sufficiency by 2025
27.09.18-
Food security
28 September 2018, Kenya - Today, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) opened a new…
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IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar works together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity
24.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …
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IRRI discovers SWEET solution to bacterial blight
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI is leading innovations to provide adequate solutions to problems such as bacterial blight which…
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IRRI transforms rice breeding processes through market-oriented product profiling
19.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI is purposefully engaging with farmers to inform policies and establish standards that transform…
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IRRI-supported Rice Corp wins the prestigious Hult Prize
18.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
September 16, New York, USA -- Rice Corp (currently known as SunRice), in partnership with…
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Consumers willing to pay a premium for sustainably produced rice, a new study shows
13.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Through behavioral market experiments, they elicited consumers’ willingness to pay for rice produc…
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IRRI, World Bank team up to strengthen post-harvest management in Myanmar
12.09.18-
Food security
A robust seed system is the "backbone" of a vibrant rice production sector. To strengthen…
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WeRise-RR orientations conducted for ICRR researchers
04.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Sukamandi, Indonesia, 15 August 2018 – The IRRI-Japan Collaborative Research Project (IJCRP) on Cl…
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WeRise-RR exhibits potential to increase rainfed rice production in Indonesia
04.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bogor, Indonesia, 14 August 2018 – Results of the initial on-farm experiments to validate the…
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IRRI, AFSTRI, Corteva Agriscience™ team up to build capacity and network of young plant scientists
22.08.18-
Food security
IRRI and Corteva Agriscience™ partners in building a strong global community of scientists which w…
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Assam farmers learn about technologies that increase yield and improve rice farming efficiency
22.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture in Assam accounts for over a third of income generated in the state, and…
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National Planning Commission and IRRI-Nepal hold round table meeting to discuss five-year work plan on the country’s rice agri-food system
16.08.18-
Food security
For more than 50 years, IRRI has been working with Nepal in providing improved germplasm…
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IRRI celebrates National Nutrition Month in the Philippines
15.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Nutrition awareness ramps up in the Philippines during the annual celebration of National Nutrition …
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Nepal to adopt intensive rice farming technologies to achieve food security
13.08.18-
Food security
As part of his South Asia travel, IRRI’s Director General Matthew Morell had the opportunity…
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