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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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Salinity-tolerant rice variety set to boost rice yield in stress prone areas in Kenya
30.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Millions of hectares of land suited to rice production in Asia and Africa are not…
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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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Collaboration between IRRI, Nong Lam University, and JICA to reduce postharvest losses and increase rice quality in Africa
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Nong Lam University, and Japan International Coope…
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Sustainable Rice Straw Management training conducted for Thailand rice industry actors
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
The IRRI mechanization and postharvest experts held a sustainable rice straw management training las…
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Introducing Climate-Smart Mapping and Adaptation Planning in Cambodia
16.01.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
To provide technical support on participatory climate-risk mapping and adaptation planning, the CGIA…
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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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Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of the Government of Odisha reaffirms state support to IRRI’s research programs
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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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Excellence in Agronomy highlights mechanized direct seeding in annual meeting
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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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IRRl engages with Indonesian govt, leading telecom company for Rice Crop Manager Project
13.12.22-
Food security
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Health
To support Indonesian rice farmers with science-based decision-making and help contribute to the Ind…
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Building a Learning Alliance for Living Labs in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
12.12.22-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A collaboration between the CGIAR Initiatives on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) and Low-Emission Food Syste…
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NARES-CGIAR Global Networks adapt Breeding Program Modernization in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
06.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Meeting the goals of food security while addressing the threat of climate change requires a…
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Seed Equal launches in Mekong Delta with climate-resilient rice seed production workshop
02.12.22-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Can Tho City, Vietnam ~ OneCGIAR-IRRI launched its new global initiative Seed Equal- Delivering Gene…
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One Rice Breeding Network and Crop Tour 2022 in India create a unified understanding, communication, and learning for researchers
01.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Various breeding trials are in place across India and have been happening for years as…
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Promoting Agricultural Transition in Asian Mega-Deltas
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
To highlight the lessons learned, challenges ahead, and recommendations that could be taken into acc…
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Pres. Marcos makes historic trip to IRRI to discuss how IRRI innovations and technologies can help transform Philippine agriculture
29.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
On 29 November 2022, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos visited the International Rice Resear…
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Food security and the cultural heritage missing link
28.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Although several initiatives to reduce food production deficits and increase net food supply have yi…
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