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Egyptian partners and stakeholders will join CGIAR and ICARDA in Cairo, Egypt on the 28th of June 2022 to provide their input and to further refine CGIAR’s Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform-IDFIP’s technical mandate through reviewing a concept note developed by CGIAR’s agricultural experts. This serves as another step in creating a regional Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform and to

  CGIAR, together with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders, conducted the country launch of the Initiative on Securing the Food Systems of Asian Mega-Deltas for Climate and Livelihood Resilience (AMD) in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 10 August 2022. With the goal of promoting resilient, inclusive, and productive Asian Mega-Deltas, the AMD initiative will focus on the three main deltas in

America’s largest organization of journalists and media professionals of colour has named the African Development Bank a “Salute to Excellence” award winner for the Bank’s communication around its Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) programme. The National Association of Black Journalists cited the Bank’s excellence in online media relations and marketing about the landmark initiative, also known as TAAT. The online campaign featured the impact

The Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS) Society, Government of Assam, has signed the extension of collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for transforming the rice-based agrifood systems in Assam under the World Bank funded Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (APART). The project focuses on promoting climate-resilient production and processing of prioritized agriculture and allied commodities,

The annual meeting of IRRI, NARES partners and officials emphasized that strengthening the partnership among the network in rice-based agricultural research and development is key to addressing global agrifood challenges. To strengthen the partnership among the agricultural researchers, research leaders, and extension workers in Asia, the International Rice Research institute (IRRI) in collaboration with Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) held

NAIROBI, Kenya (26 June 2023)- In a transformative move to increase rice seed production and scale of improved rice varieties in Kenya, the Mwea Rice Growers Multipurpose Cooperative Society (MRGM), the largest farmers’ cooperative in East and Southern Africa (ESA), has received a modern seed dressing machine from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), marking a major milestone in enhancing

Manila, Philippines (October 17, 2023) — Innovative strategies and technologies to address the problem of salinity intrusion in rice production in Asian mega delta countries were presented by experts from various disciplines at the 6th International Rice Congress (IRC2023) in Manila. The side event, Coping with Salinity in Asian Mega-Deltas , was organized by the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas

While the Philippine government has set an ambitious goal of 97.4% rice self-sufficiency by 2028, the impact of climate change, among many other factors, stands in the way of that goal. In 2022, super typhoon Noru (locally named Karding) hit the country around this year, which set back the country’s production forecast of 12.41 million metric tons of milled rice