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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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Stakeholders learn about sustainable rice straw management in Vietnam
20.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Rice straw management remains to be one of Vietnam’s biggest agricultural challenges. On average, …
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Sri Lanka, IRRI set priority areas to restore rice self-sufficiency
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Food security
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19 June 2018— The Sri Lankan Ministry of Agriculture and the International…
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Transforming information into a commodity
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Food security
Can agricultural advisory services provide business opportunities for agro-input dealers? In Odisha,…
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Bihar and IRRI advance partnership to improve rice-based cropping systems
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Food security
Bihar, India, 13 June 2018 — Dr. Matthew Morell, Director General, International Rice Research Ins…
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Sowing the seeds of innovation
10.06.18-
Food security
Innovation lies at the heart of the new strategic plan of the International Rice Research…
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Increasing farmer’s’ income through post-harvest technologies and value chain upgrading
07.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI aims to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia by delivering comprehensive…
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Nine Asian countries learn novel technologies in Rice Technology Transfer Systems in Asia (RTTS) Training Workshop at RDA in South Korea
07.06.18-
Food security
IRRI Education, in collaboration with the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of …
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WateRice project demonstrated laser guided land leveling technology to Iloilo farmers
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IRRI works with national partners to promote technologies that maximize water-use efficiency and to …
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Drying with water
06.06.18IRRI relies on its capacity to stay at the forefront of innovation in research and…
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Potassium may be a key in making rice plants more tolerant to droughts
01.06.18The availability of water is becoming an urgent factor in crop productivity in both developing…
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Working with Cambodian rice farmers to combat a plague of rodents
30.05.18By adapting new rodent pest management strategies, Cambodian farmers are now able to defend their…
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SeedCast – Innovative mobile app launched by IRRI to estimate seed demand for rice varieties in Odisha, India
28.05.18IRRI together with the Odisha Department of Agriculture and the Odisha State Seed Corporation (OSSC)…
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Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three global leading regulatory agencies
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Health
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Nutrition
Los Baños, Philippines, 25 MAY 2018 – GR2E Golden Rice, a provitamin-A biofortified rice…
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DNA fingerprinting to improve seed systems monitoring in Bangladesh
24.05.18Stakeholders discuss the potential of DNA fingerprinting technology in addressing concerns presented…
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Helping Vietnam transform its rice sector through sustainable rice production practices
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI works with key partners in boosting Vietnam’s rice industry through the “Vietnam Sustainabl…
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Towards greater genetic gains in rice based agri-food systems in South Asia and Africa
16.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
On a mission to make Asia and sub-Saharan Africa more food secure, IRRI’s Stress-Tolerant Rice…
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Bangladesh Government honors former IRRI Agronomist Dr. Md. M Abdul Mazid for contributions to Bangladeshi food security
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dhaka, Bangladesh—25 March 2018—The government presented the “Swadhinata Padak 2018” award t…
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STRASA’s innovative approach to faster adoption of modern rice varieties and technologies
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developing new climate-resilient rice varieties and technologies is simply not enough to mitigate th…
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