Research, conservation, and development organizations in Peru join forces to establish community seed banks and strengthen the conservation and sustainable management of crop diversity in the country’s Agrobiodiversity Zones. Andenes de Cuyocuyo, a zone bordering Peru’s lowland Amazon region and located 200 km north of Lake Titicaca, in the department of Puno, Peru. Its the first, out of 10,
In the lead-up to World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) hosted a special event titled “Celebrating Innovation, Empowering the Future” at its Hyderabad campus. The event held on 22 April 2025, featured two key milestones: the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BITS Pilani and an IP licensing agreement with Eco-Paryavaran for ICRISAT’s Solar Water Hyacinth Harvester.
A partnership between the first veterinary school in Malawi and international research experts has contributed new insights into tropical livestock diseases, following the publication of a scientific paper on the epidemiology of the parasitic flatworm Fasciola gigantica. The paper appears in the April 2025 issue of the journal Veterinary Research Communications and is the first published output from this collaboration
New Delhi, April 2025 — In a significant step toward inclusive and climate-resilient agricultural transformation, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have outlined a joint research vision for 2025–2027, focusing on the inclusive delivery, adoption, and scaling of improved germplasms in India’s dryland ecosystems. The planning meeting, held on April 3–4, 2025, at the ICRISAT Conference Room, NASC Complex,
By Prem Raj Bhatt, Mosharaf Hossain, Swati Nayak, Rabin Kushma Tharu, Jitendra Sah With women-led cooperatives taking the lead, IRRI and its partners in Nepal scale out climate-resilient varieties to build an inclusive, efficient, and responsive seed delivery system. Rice accounts for 53% of cereal grain production in Nepal and contributes 5.7% to the country’s total GDP and 13.5% to
At the CGIAR Strategy Dialogue during Science Week, experts spotlighted the urgent need for gender equality, youth empowerment, and inclusion to build resilient, equitable agri-food systems worldwide. At the 2025 CGIAR Science Week, a dialogue unfolded around the crucial intersection of gender equality, youth, and social inclusion within agri-food systems. This conversation, hosted during the CGIAR Strategy Dialogue, brought
by John Damien Platten, Amelia Henry, Myrtel Valenzuela In a recent Marschner Review in the journal Plant and Soil, IRRI scientists introduced the Trait Development Pipeline and highlighted examples from root biology in developing next-generation, climate-resilient rice varieties. When it comes to developing new rice varieties, most of the attention goes to the finished product: the seeds that reach farmers’
IRRI and partners empower haor farmers with climate-smart innovations to improve productivity, resilience, and livelihoods in rice farming. Nikli, Kishoreganj (22 April 2025) – Bangladesh’s haor region, responsible for 25% of the country’s boro rice and 15% of annual rice production, is increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks, old technologies and practices, and systemic gaps in the rice value chain.