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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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Mechanized seeding provides farmers with groundbreaking improvements in productivity, profits, and livelihoods
18.07.23Photo: IRRI India Bikram Palatasingh. a smallholder farmer in Puri District, took more than 20…
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What is in a label? Examining the influence of cultural and colonial heritage on preferences and willingness to pay for local and international rice labels in Senegal
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At a time when policymakers in several countries across sub-Saharan Africa are seeking to increase …
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Rice crop tour highlights breeding and seed systems in Tanzania
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Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Tanzanian Agricultural Research Institute (…
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Just Launched: IRRI Launched Open Learning Platform openlearning.cgiar.org
06.07.23The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is geared to transform the way we learn about…
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A farmers’ cooperative in Kenya receives a modern seed dressing machine to boost Kenya’s rice production
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
NAIROBI, Kenya (26 June 2023)- In a transformative move to increase rice seed production and…
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Bundling gender responsive socio-technical innovations: Unpacking the what and how
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
The CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative organized a stakeholder workshop on 23 – 24 May 2023.…
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Building learning alliance to address climate change issues in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
To form a network of diverse stakeholders within the region that has an interest to…
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New private-public partnership formed to take rice production to scale in Ghana
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Food security
Photo by Michael Behrens on Unsplash The new partnership forms a tripartite cooperation between the…
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A woman farmer empowered by digital technology
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Reeta Pal shows the difference in rice yields between farmer’s fertilizer practices and field-spec…
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International Rice Genebank completes review for Long-Term Partnership Agreement (LPA) with Crop Trust
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Food security
LOS BAÑOS , Laguna (19 June 2023): The Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) visited…
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Seed sharing initiative and climate change-resilient technologies to address food and nutrition security in Asia and Africa
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Food security
VARANASI, India (14 June 2023) - Officials from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)…
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Thailand Rice Department and IRRI ink 2023-2027 Joint Work Plan
21.06.23BANGKOK, Thailand (03 June 2023) – The Thailand Rice Department and the International Rice Researc…
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IRRI at AGRICONNECT tackles transparency and inclusivity in agricultural carbon markets
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
24 May 2023, BANGKOK, Thailand – IRRI convened climate change thought leaders at the recently…
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IRRI-Africa completes training of trainers on quality rice seeds production in Burundi
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (12 May 2023) A training of trainers on quality rice seeds production was…
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Pathways and determinants of sustainable energy use for rice farms in India
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
In the North-western Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of India, long-standing policies of providing highly …
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Access and control of resources and participation in rice-breeding activities among men and women farmers in Southern Ghana
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Women in Ghana have been found to adopt high-yielding varieties and improved management systems at…
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Uttar Pradesh-ISARC prioritize ag transformation for farmers’ welfare
05.06.23IRRI Director General Jean Balié met with Honorable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri, Yogi…
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IRRI holds training on revolutionary water-saving technology for sustainable rice production
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Nutrition, health & food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC) organized a trai…
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