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Varanasi, India – April 22, 2024 Key stakeholders of the national seed systems formalized a National Seed Accelerator Network to foster collaboration between seed scaling institutions and breeding networks to expedite early generation seed linkage, multiplication, and supply of quality-assured seeds. IRRI South Asia Regional Centre(ISARC) recently hosted a strategic engagement, Seed Accelerator Meet 1.0 which served as a platform

Indigenous Peoples have been portrayed as highly vulnerable to climate change while at the same time possessing skills and knowledge that are critical to the climate response. Indigenous Peoples’ participation in environmental governance is one of several key pathways through which they actively engage “with the management of and relationships to nature”. However, they have been underrepresented in reports fundamental

In a climate change scenario, a team of researchers and scholars from SUA, UCPH, IRRI, TARI, and KALRO are working to ensure East and Southern Africa’s food security through spatiotemporal mapping, identifying eligible rice lines, and developing climate-smart rice varieties. “Raining and flooding are not common during this time of the year.”, Dr. Susan Nchimbi Msolla, Professor in Plant Breeding

CLRRI and IRRI identified 12 potential salinity-tolerant rice lines for cultivation in Vietnam’s Cuu Long Delta area. This can help farmers combat salt intrusion problems and secure their livelihoods. CUU LONG DELTA RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CLRRI), 15 April 2024 — For the last 2–3 years, IRRI has screened more than 7,000 rice elite genotypes in coastal regions across South Asia

Soil salinity is one of the most severe and common abiotic stresses affecting Africa’s rice productivity. To better present the current state and help future scientists better understand the challenges and focus their efforts toward developing salt-tolerant rice varieties, this study provides an overview of the various approaches, that can be employed to attain salt stress tolerance in rice. Agriculture

KALRO and IRRI jointly held a Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, Kenya where they conducted a participatory varietal selection of IRRI-developed lines as well as training on best agricultural practices covering topics like pest and disease management. Female farmers were also interviewed to discuss their market preferences to help varietal, market, and policy development in the region. The Kenya

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Crop Production (DCP) – Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) launched the co-developed Technical Guidelines and Manual for High-Quality and Low-Emission Rice Production in the Mekong Delta in a workshop in An Giang Province. The guidelines and manual will be the main sources for the implementation of the “Sustainable

Department of Crop Production-Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (DCP-MARD), Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Can Tho City, and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) officially launched its model rice fields under Vietnam’s One-Million-Ha program. As part of Vietnam’s “One Million Hectares Sustainable Development Project for High-Quality and Low-Emission Rice Cultivation Associated with Green Growth (One Million Hectares Program)”,