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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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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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Increasing awareness of integrated nutrient management among Odisha women farmers
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Girija Prasad Patnaik, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Preeti Bharti, Kshitikanta Rout, Mukund Variar, Sheetal Sh…
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Investing in women means investing in sustainable development
08.03.24-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
IRRI Gender and Livelihoods Unit Lead, Dr. Jummai Yila elaborates on the critical role of…
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IRRI and Thailand Rice Department Strengthen Collaboration on Climate Change Initiatives
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA (15 February 2024) - A delegation from the Thailand Rice Department (TRD)…
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Vietnam MARD awards the Asian Mega-Deltas Initiative and IRRI for supporting the country’s sustainable development
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) of Vietnam awarded a Certificate of Merit…
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CGIAR Executive Managing Director visits IRRI Headquarters in the Philippines
28.02.24LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (23 February 2024) – Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, the newly appointed Executive Managi…
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CGIAR Seed Equal Initiative highlights women and smallholder farmers’ inclusion in seed information and delivery
27.02.24-
Food security
09-10 January 2024 (HYDERABAD, India) – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) organized…
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Where women in agri-food systems are at highest climate risk: A methodology for mapping climate–agriculture–gender inequality hotspots
27.02.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Climate change compromises gender equality. Gender inequalities and structural constraints to equali…
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The First National Rice Stakeholders’ Conference in Kenya targets rice self-sufficiency by 2030 through plant breeding innovations and collaborations
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Food security
16 NOVEMBER 2023 (NAIROBI, Kenya) – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in collaborat…
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Farmers Field Day promotes high-yield rice varieties and climate-smart agronomy to increase the productivity and income of Kenyan farmers
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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07 February 2024 (HOMA BAY COUNTY, Kenya) –The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) held a…
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How Assam’s fallow season can be transformed into a season of productivity
22.02.24-
Food security
Agriculture in Assam is characterized by low productivity because of frequent floods, drought, lack …
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IRRI and ISABU join efforts in revolutionizing rice farming by availing good quality rice seeds
21.02.24-
Food security
The Burundi office of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Institute of Agronomi…
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Empowering Women Farmers through STIBs: Insights from Multi-stakeholder Dialogues in Makaltala and Balarampur Learning Labs, West Bengal, India
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Nutrition, health & food security
Climate change is exacerbating the uncertainty and risks for farmers and other food systems actors…
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Quality and quantity of data from varietal selections encourage the adoption of improved rice varieties in sub-Saharan Africa
19.02.24-
Food security
While most breeding efforts are focused on producing improved rice varieties, farmers in sub-Saharan…
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IRRI and Department of Agriculture sign agreement anew to boost PH rice industry development
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (18 February 2023) - The Philippine Department of Agriculture entered into a Mem…
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SeedCast brings improved, high-yielding rice varieties closer to Tanzanian farmers
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Martin Ndomondo , Dr Daniel Menge , and Dr Ajay Panchbhai SeedCast-Tanzania was officially…
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SpeedFlower: a comprehensive speed breeding protocol for indica and japonica rice
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
SpeedFlower for indica and japonica rice offers a promising solution for addressing the limitations …
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Rice breeding research becomes globally integrated
12.02.24CGIAR has launched a major new crop-focused global breeding research program that brings together it…
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Klaus Lampe, IRRI’s fifth director general, passes away in Germany
08.02.24by Gene Hettel Klaus J. Lampe, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI,…
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