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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
16.05.25-
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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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Food export restrictions have eased as the Russia-Ukraine war continues, but concerns remain for key commodities
23.01.23-
Food security
by Joseph Glauber, David Laborde and Abdullah Mamun OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In the weeks followin…
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Women-led community seed production and marketing enterprise sows change in Northern Bangladesh
23.01.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The journey of Srimati Gouri Rani Shankar is nothing less than an inspiration for women…
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2022 Forman Lecture: The AU’s Minata Samaté Cessouma on Africa’s current and future nutrition challenges
19.01.23-
Food security
In an era of global uncertainties, including high food prices, political instability, and growing cl…
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From Silicon Valley to Tanzania: Putting AI to work for smallholder farmers
16.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Journey into the field with Project Artemis, a new collaboration putting advanced phenotyping techno…
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CIP and IRRI collaborate on CGIAR Seed Equal Initiative workshop for potato crops in Africa
16.01.23-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Initiative Seed Equal- Delivering Genetic Gains to Farmers Fields held a workshop in…
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Can videos overcome smallholder women’s barriers to accessing climate resilience strategies? Insights from Uganda
13.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Gender equality
Uganda's National Agriculture and Advisory Services (NAADS) has made great contributions to the tran…
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Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of the Government of Odisha reaffirms state support to IRRI’s research programs
13.01.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Marking the World Food Day, Dr. Arabinda Kumar Padhee, Principal Secretary of the Department of…
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Zambia's first farming reality TV show launched by national broadcaster
10.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The combined impacts of climate change, rising populations, scarce resources, and growing demand for…
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ILRI says farewell to Director General Jimmy Smith
10.01.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Every director general knows, at the time they are appointed, exactly when they're supposed to…
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Policy seminar: The harmful environment impacts of agricultural subsidies and prospects for reform
06.01.23-
Food security
Globally, agricultural support is high—totaling about $600 billion annually—and continues to inc…
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Developing and implementing Picture-Based Advisories (PBA) for farmers in Kenya
31.12.22-
Food security
IFPRI’s picture-based insurance (PBI) initiative, recognized as a CGIAR@50 Innovation and acti…
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WEAGov: A new conceptual framework to assess women’s empowerment in agricultural governance
30.12.22-
Food security
Global progress on advancing women’s empowerment within governance systems has been uneven, even a…
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Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt
29.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world…
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In Tajikistan, women contribute significantly to agriculture, but does agricultural work contribute significantly to women’s agency?
23.12.22-
Food security
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tajikistan is among the lowest-income countries in Central Asia and the world, and agriculture plays…
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Policy seminar: Leveraging Kenya’s new Bottom-Up Economic Plan for food system transformation
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Kenya’s new government has developed an ambitious Bottom-Up Economic Plan to tackle complex dome…
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Excellence in Agronomy highlights mechanized direct seeding in annual meeting
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
30 November 2022, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The advantages, learnings, and constraints for mechanized di…
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Advanta Seeds visit IRRI HQ to explore more potential collaborations
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Last December 5-7, a delegation from Advanta Seeds from India and the Philippines visited IRRI…
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26th Annual CORRA Meeting Highlights the Importance of Rice for Global Food Security
20.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The annual meeting of IRRI, NARES partners and officials emphasized that strengthening the partnersh…
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