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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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IRRI-Africa innovations for food security showcased at the 6th Africa Agri Expo
05.04.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
IRRI-Africa scientists presented ready-to-adopt rice-based technologies to inspire partnerships and …
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Promising management strategies to improve crop sustainability and to amend soil salinity
04.04.23-
Adaptation
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Nutrition, health & food security
The FAO estimated that over 6% of the world’s land area and about 20% of…
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IRRI, USAID, and Bayer launch global DSR initiative “Scale Direct” for Asia and Africa smallholder farmers
27.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
09 March 2023, India - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Bayer agreed…
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Diversifying rice-based cropping systems under natural farming in Uttar Pradesh with peppermint
27.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in the Barabanki Region of Uttar Pradesh started cultivating peppermint to improve their pro…
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Enriching seed systems: IRRI-Africa collaborates with partners to enhance rice seed production in Tanzania
22.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Moshi, Kilimanjaro, 28th February - 02 March 2023 - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)…
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IRRI facilitates agreement between KALRO and Advanta Seeds International in efforts to enhance access to seeds of improved rice varieties in Africa
22.03.23In many African countries, rice consumption outstrips production, which leads to huge imports to mee…
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IRRI Education introduces more than 50 micromodules for enhanced online learning
16.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI Education, the educational arm of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), is driving …
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Strengthening partnerships and programs for Asian Mega-Deltas
16.03.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
To strengthen its strategy, cooperation, and results management, the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-…
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IRRI-BMGF-PAU collaborate on the Dry Direct Seeded Rice Systems Project for the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
13.03.23-
Food security
(Ludhiana, Punjab, March 3, 2023) - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) co-organized an…
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Rice demand and production projections for 2050: Opportunities for achieving self-sufficiency in Nepal
08.03.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The present trends of demand and supply of rice, in general, revealed that it would…
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IRRI wins the 2023 David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy for Seeds Without Borders
03.03.23-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was selected as the recipient of the 2023 David…
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Adoption and performance of direct-seeded rice technology in the Philippines
27.02.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Rice is one of the major food cash crops in the Philippines, yet the cost…
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50 years of rice breeding in Bangladesh: Genetic yield trends
27.02.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
In rice, there has been very limited research on genetic gain in Asia in general,…
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Gender-friendly seed production trainings help Bangladeshi women own their future
27.02.23-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Gender disparity manifests in various ways, one of those being giving women limited access to…
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Climate-Smart Villages in Southeast Asia: The pivotal role of seed systems in rice-based landscapes
27.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Given the aggravating nature of climate change impacts, rice farming will increasingly rely on impro…
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A deceptively simple hack boosts wheat yields in Bihar
17.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As a warming planet desiccates crops around the world, threatening livelihoods and nutrition, farmer…
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IRRI and ACB: Igniting partnerships for ASEAN agrobiodiversity
14.02.23-
Biodiversity
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Food security
IRRI’s Director Jean Balié and Deputy Director General for Strategy, Engagement and Impact, Joann…
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IRRI-Mozambique conducts electronic data capture training
03.02.23-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute Mozambique office organized an electronic data-capturing w…
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