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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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Virgilio Carangal, former IRRI agronomist, passes away
01.12.17Dr. Virgilio R. “Pexy” Carangal, 84, former agronomist (1974-94) at the International Rice Resea…
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Celebrating biotechnology and its benefits to humanity
24.11.17The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) joins its host country, the Philippines, in celebra…
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Cambodian farmers participate in cross-site visits to learn about Integrated Pest Management practices
22.11.17Farmers check the trichoderma x variety tria…
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IRRI scientist wins 2017 Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers
22.11.17IRRI scientist Dr. Sheetal Sharma was chosen as one of the three winners of the…
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IRRI partners with JAAS to establish a joint innovation laboratory
22.11.17Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines - 14 November 2017 -- The International Rice Research In…
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Making rice production easier and more profitable through plant science
20.11.17Los Baños, Philippines - Nov 15, 2017 -- The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) welcomed…
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ISARC hosts first international hands-on training on quality seed production
09.11.1729 October 2017. IRRI South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC) informally opened its offices at the…
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IRRI scientists join FP2 team to upgrade rice value chains in Asia and Africa
08.11.17From left to right: Val Pede (IRRI), Kaori Fujita (JIRCAS), Vipa Surojanametakul (Kasetsart Universi…
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IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan wins Fudan Management Excellence Award
02.11.17Nov 4, 2017 Press Statement IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan wins Fudan Management Excellence Awa…
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Global Alliance Releases New Tools to Guide Evidence-based Solutions Across Health, Development, and Environment
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Environmental health
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Health
Oct 25, 2017 Press Release Global Alliance Releases New Tools to Guide Evidence-based Solutions Acro…
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Interpreting India’s Performance on the Global Hunger Index
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Food security
Oct 15, 2017 Press Statement Interpreting India’s Performance on the Global Hunger Index Recent re…
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Global Hunger Index 2017—Fact Sheet
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Food security
Oct 12, 2017 Press Release Global Hunger Index 2017—Fact Sheet This year one country hit…
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The Inequalities of Hunger: Global Hunger Index Spotlights Uneven Progress in Reducing Hunger
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Food security
Oct 12, 2017 Press Release The Inequalities of Hunger: Global Hunger Index Spotlights Uneven Progres…
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Food Assistance Remains a Critical Safety Net for the Poor and Vulnerable
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Nutrition
Sep 28, 2017 Press Release Food Assistance Remains a Critical Safety Net for the Poor…
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Enabling knowledge sharing and exchange in gender research across CGIAR: a working paper series
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Gender equality
Gender equality is central to the three CGIAR strategic objectives of reducing poverty, improving fo…
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The modern face of breeding programs: gender fatigued no more
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Gender equality
Why is it that in Malawi, the three improved varieties of pigeon pea, which were…
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Change in the Making: the renewed effort to mainstream gender in CGIAR research
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Gender equality
Gender equity matters, now, more than ever. From the gathering force of women’s voices the…
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ILRI and Chinese partners launch new livestock projects, review ongoing research collaboration
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has worked on livestock research-for-developme…
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