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Nutrition

Two new studies from HarvestPlus and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) s…

IRRI and partners enhance farmer livelihood through new rice straw composting technique

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Environmental health
Food security

Rice straw is a natural byproduct of rice production. Each kilogram of milled rice produces…

Plastic houses, ICARDA Terbol Station in Lebanon.

Regenerating wild crop relatives in the Fertile Crescent

CGIAR Research Program on Fish

ICARDA is regenerating massive amounts of crop wild relatives in their place of origin –…

Farmer-to-farmer learning is boosting aquaculture in Sierra Leone

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

In Sierra Leone, where commercial small-scale aquaculture is in its infancy, FISH is developing and…

Hedge your bets in resilient landscape restoration

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Bioversity International launched the Trees for Seeds: Resilient forest restoration initiative at t…

A bureaucratic catch-22: Study in Bangladesh shows how safety nets can overlook the poorest

Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY AKHTER AHMED AND JULIE GHOSTLAW Around the world, governments and development partners make hard…

IRRI gathers researchers to advance breeding programs around the world

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Food security

IRRI together with the Excellence in Breeding (EiB) program and the Genomic Open-Source Breeding Inf…

Can you imagine a world of waste-wise cities? Accra leads the way

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Environmental health
Health

The challengeWaste is piling up in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, which is home to…

Free community labour: critical to Ethiopia’s drive to restore land and improve livelihoods

CGIAR Research Program on Fish

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

Farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia have provided huge amounts of time and labour, free of…

Fish farmers celebrate tilapia harvest in Timor-Leste

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

The Partnership for Aquaculture Development in Timor-Leste (PADTL), a five-year project funded by …

El Salvador’s president urges U.N. support for decade of ecosystem restoration

30.09.18

Environmental health

A major international effort to devote a decade to promoting the restoration and rehabilitation of…

Keynote speaker; Homi Kharas, Interim Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development program, Brookings Institution Photo credit: Jamed Falik/IFPRI

IFPRI Research Day: Brookings’ Homi Kharas on overcoming obstacles to meeting the SDGs

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Nutrition

BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, KATRINA KOSEC AND JESSICA HECKERT It’s a troubled time for global food secur…

IFPRI report: How China and Africa can promote cooperation in agricultural modernization

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY XINYUAN SHANG AND LIWEN ZHANG Agriculture is key to improving food security and reducing poverty…

Empowering women farmers to lead agricultural transformation

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Food security
Gender equality

A network of women farmer leaders are set to drive widespread adoption of innovations and…

Priorities for Green Climate Fund identified by the Philippines

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Almost 400 initiatives were consolidated from government agencies to create the focus areas that wil…

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