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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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The more you know: De-risking Odisha’s rice farmers by inspiring insurance uptake
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Veronica Mae Escarez In Odisha, incentivizing farmers who seek knowledge about agricultural insur…
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A farmer’s journey from the field to the markets
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Bushra Humaira Sadaf, Md Abdul Haque, Abu Abdullah Miajy Sharif Ahmed, Humnath Bhandari This…
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CIAT-Forages Program Completes EBS Adoption Through Knowledge Exchange with CG-Breeding Resource Services
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Food security
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines, 24 January 2025 – The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) is playing a…
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Alternate Wetting and Drying can help revolutionize global rice farming
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
This water-conserving, emission-reducing, and cost-saving practice can help farmers, but challenges …
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Her Rice Science: Meet 4 Women of IRRI and their fun stories working in science
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Gender equality
2025 marks the 10th year since the International Day of Women and Girls in Science…
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IRRI receives Cross of Friendship medal from Lao PDR
07.02.25Through the Cross of Friendship medal, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic acknowledges IRRI’s …
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NARES and IRRI advance market-driven varieties and accelerate adoption of new rice varieties in Africa
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Food security
A photo-op of participants at the 2024 NARES-IRRI Joint Advancement Meeting, with over 90 participan…
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World Wetland Day: IRRI’s role in preserving Bangladesh’s Haor wetland ecosystem
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Environmental health
by Rehana Noor In the Haor wetlands of Bangladesh, rice is a key source of…
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In South Asia, less N surplus and sustainable agronomy are keys to combatting climate change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Veronica Mae Escarez A Nature report revealed that improving nitrogen use efficiency by lessening…
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Fostering Inclusive Adoption of RCM Through MDII Insights
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Food security
by Niyati Singaraju, Shalini Gakhar A study of rice farmers in India and Indonesia through…
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Building Resilient Food Systems for Odisha’s Smallholders Through Convergence and Innovation
23.01.25-
Adaptation
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Food security
by Swati Nayak*, Arabinda Kumar Padhee**, Sk Mosharaf Hossain*, Subhasmita Mahapatra* Dilip Kumar Ro…
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IRRI Seed Health 2024 workshop: Strengthening seed health networks for safe and effective movement across SEA and SA
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Food security
LAGUNA, Philippines, 29 November 2024 ~ The Rice Breeding Innovations (RBI) Seed Health and Logistic…
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IRRI and smart agriculture technology leader XAG collaborate to promote digital agriculture and precision farming in the Philippines
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Food security
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines (20 January 2025) —The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and sm…
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IRRI’s digital monitoring and reporting system nominated for the Vietnam National Television’s Awards for Impressive Digital Transformation Application of the Year
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Food security
The Rice Activity Monitoring and Reporting System (RiceMoRe) developed by IRRI and the Ministry of…
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Enabling women farmers in Odisha to combat heat stress
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
by Pooja Kori, Benu Verma, Ranjitha Puskur As global temperatures rise, heat stress has become…
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Vietnam and Thailand scale knowledge on sustainable and low-emissions rice production
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Can Tho City, Vietnam, December 19, 2024 —In a remarkable effort to share knowledge and…
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Hybrid rice + innovations: a path forward for climate-smart agriculture
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines (06 January 2025) ~ Rice, while a staple food for half of…
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Inclusive and equitable canal water management towards sustainable agriculture urged at Bangladesh policy dialogue
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Food security
In the southern coastal deltaic regions of Bangladesh, freshwater canals are a lifeline to multiple…
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