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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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IRRI Seed Health and Logistics Unit leads quality management and cost recovery systems implementation across the CGIAR CoP at the 7th CGIAR GHU Workshop
20.05.24-
Food security
CIAT, COLOMBIA, 15 April 2024 — Germplasm/Seed health units staff members from various CGIAR cente…
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Unearthing old rice germplasm, illuminating a new way to improvement
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Food security
Scientists are delving into molecular genetics to enhance crop yield per unit. This approach hinges…
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Dialogues on challenges facing the varietal turnover in Seed Accelerator Meet
15.05.24-
Food security
Varanasi, India - April 22, 2024 Key stakeholders of the national seed systems formalized a…
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CLRRI and IRRI identify 12 potential salinity-tolerant rice lines for the Cuu Long Delta
13.05.24-
Adaptation
CLRRI and IRRI identified 12 potential salinity-tolerant rice lines for cultivation in Vietnam’s C…
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Building a climate-smarter Tanzania
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In a climate change scenario, a team of researchers and scholars from SUA, UCPH, IRRI,…
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Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ participation in climate policy processes
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Indigenous Peoples have been portrayed as highly vulnerable to climate change while at the same…
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KALRO and IRRI organize Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, sharing improved rice varieties and training farmers on climate-smart agronomy
06.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
KALRO and IRRI jointly held a Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, Kenya where they…
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Breeding rice for salinity tolerance and salt-affected soils in Africa: A review
06.05.24-
Adaptation
Soil salinity is one of the most severe and common abiotic stresses affecting Africa’s rice…
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MARD, Can Tho City, and IRRI launch model farms for sustainable rice production
03.05.24-
Food security
Department of Crop Production-Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (DCP-MARD), Department o…
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IRRI and MARD launch technical guidelines and manual for sustainable rice production
03.05.24-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Crop Production (DCP) - Minis…
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RiceMoRe – a digital data platform to systematically advance rice production management in Vietnam
02.05.24-
Food security
The Department of Crop Production (DCP), in collaboration with the Center for Agricultural Digital T…
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Odisha revives grass pea cultivation to turn fallow lands into fertile grounds
29.04.24-
Biodiversity
Apart from its nutritional value, the grass pea can be grown as a relay crop…
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Transforming Thailand’s Rice Sector Toward Low Emissions
26.04.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Bangkok, Thailand (25 April 2024) - As global attention turns towards sustainable agricultural pract…
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The acceptability of locally adapted japonica rice variety in selected rice farmers in Bohol and Nueva Ecija, Philippines
22.04.24The japonica variety is intentionally cultivated by some Filipino rice farmers to cater to the…
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IRRI, PhilRice launch drone protocols to boost rice farming in the Philippines
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Food security
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (17 April 2024) – Aimed at leveraging the power of drone technology…
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Achieving critical mass for the greening of rice fallows in Odisha
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Growing pulses and oilseeds crops in rice fallows provide farmers with additional income, livelihood…
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Digital innovations webinar promotes equity and sustainability in agri-food systems
15.04.24-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On 28 March 2024, stakeholders from seven countries across Asia and Africa attended a webinar…
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New Digital Hub to Stimulate Methane Reduction through Sustainable Rice Cultivation
12.04.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Gold Standard and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have released a new resource hub…
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