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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-
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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Deep sowing of dry direct-seeded rice: cultivar differences in seedling establishment and grain yield
30.05.23-
Food security
In Asia, rapid economic growth has also caused a shift of labor from agriculture to…
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From agreement to action: Contributing to biodiversity conservation through sustainable practices
25.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Biological diversity is undoubtedly a global asset of tremendous value to future generations. Yet, c…
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The benefits of climate-resilient organic methods: A farmer’s success story
24.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Harishankar has been using organic farming practices for the past 15 years and his farm…
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Rice variety preferences in Bangladesh: What is the role of public breeders?
15.05.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
It has been suggested that public breeders should put more emphasis on the integration of…
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World's largest rice congress to be held in Manila, co-organized by the Philippine Agri Dept and IRRI
15.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The International Rice Congress is held every 4 years and for the first time ever…
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Ecological engineering: An effective package for transitioning from conventional to regenerative agriculture
08.05.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ecological engineering is a novel approach to pest management that considers cultural practices root…
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IRRI and AfricaRice team awarded prestigious Milken-Motsepe Prize for rice varieties that can survive floods
03.05.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CALIFORNIA, United States of America (02 May 2023) – The International Rice Research Institute (IR…
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Philippines scientists develop climate-resistant rice
02.05.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists at the International Rice Research Institute are developing varieties of climate-resistan…
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A global rice crisis is brewing
02.05.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The world’s most important crop is fuelling both climate change and diabetes.…
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The global rice crisis
02.05.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Rice feeds more than half the world—but also fuels diabetes and climate change According to…
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Effects of irrigation regimes and rice varieties on methane emissions and yield of dry-season rice in Bangladesh
02.05.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The role of rice in global food security is unavoidable as it is one of…
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IRRI inks MoU with Uttar Pradesh agricultural universities
26.04.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
UTTAR PRADESH, India (21 April 2023) The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) signed a Memor…
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IRRI completes Excellence Through Stewardship global audit
26.04.23LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (24 April 2023) - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) recently compl…
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IRRI deepens its partnership with the Government of India through ICAR
25.04.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
IRRI and ICAR have signed a five-year work plan, strengthening the 60-year relationship between Indi…
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The acceptability of locally adapted japonica rice variety in the Philippine market: A product market test approach
24.04.23With the growing demand for japonica rice in the Philippines, imports fill out the gap.…
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Reduced-tillage potato cultivation as a sustainable organic farming practice
13.04.23-
Biodiversity
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Food security
On-farm demonstration trials using organic reduced tillage and rice straw mulching for potato crops …
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What can Bengaluru learn from Vietnam’s agricultural revolution?
12.04.23-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leading agricultural economist from Vietnam highlights the ways their national government reformed t…
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Malho Marndi: A changemaker and a rising hope for mechanized direct-seeded rice in Odisha
05.04.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
Malho Marndi, standing in her DSR field, defines herself as a passionate farmer who is…
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