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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Institute of Rice Research (ICAR-IIRR) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) conducted a virtual brainstorming session on the development and deployment of low-cost, climate-smart, and site-specific strategies for improving productivity, profitability and resilience of rice-based production systems in India. Around 100 participants from various ICAR institutes and agricultural universities actively took part in Climate-smart

WASHINGTON DC, Aug 23 2021 (IPS) – A population of more than 9 billion people, hotter temperatures, decaying ecosystems and increasingly severe natural disasters. That is what our world is facing by 2050 because of climate change. Even before the addition of some two billion people, the world still struggles to ensure enough food for all, with around 700 million people going hungry worldwide

The world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership, CGIAR, is currently developing a series of initiatives to implement its 2030 research and innovation strategy that was launched in early 2021. One of these research initiatives, Protecting human health through a One Health approach, aims to improve the prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance, foodborne diseases and zoonoses in seven target countries:

The Alliance is part of a multi-stakeholder partnership to promote nutrition-sensitive food systems in Vietnam while fighting poverty and malnutrition. This year’s goal is to scale up the role of small and medium enterprises in food system transformation. With contributions from: Lisa DeVitis and Pilar Santacoloma, FAO

Agriculture uses more than 90% of Uzbekistan’s water use, and wasteful irrigation practices can be widely seen. Local Water Consumer Associations have a role to play in reversing this trend, but these newly established Associations have difficulty accounting for how much water has been delivered to whom with any precision, and that leads to conflicts that undermine farmers’ incentives. Accounting

As in many parts of the world, late blight disease is a scourge to potato farmers who lose millions of dollars (and tonnes of potatoes) to this pathogen each year. Five years ago, a group of farmers, scientists, and government officials formed the AsiaBlight network to develop an integrated approach to managing, and eventually eradicated,… The post AsiaBlight Network Presents Multi-faceted

As science depends on curating knowledge from the past and the present, the future of science requires nurturing young people to continue these investigations in the years ahead. With that idea in mind, the CIP-China Center for Asia-Pacific (CCCAP) Science Center recently concluded a science camp for more than 30 science-minded teenagers at its headquarters in Beijing. Conducted over two

CGIAR CONTRIBUTORS AfricaRice TYPE OF INNOVATION Biophysical science Genetic (varieties and breeds) Production systems and management practices Research and communication methodologies and tools Social science