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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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WateRice project demonstrated laser guided land leveling technology to Iloilo farmers
06.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IRRI works with national partners to promote technologies that maximize water-use efficiency and to …
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Drying with water
06.06.18IRRI relies on its capacity to stay at the forefront of innovation in research and…
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Potassium may be a key in making rice plants more tolerant to droughts
01.06.18The availability of water is becoming an urgent factor in crop productivity in both developing…
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Working with Cambodian rice farmers to combat a plague of rodents
30.05.18By adapting new rodent pest management strategies, Cambodian farmers are now able to defend their…
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SeedCast – Innovative mobile app launched by IRRI to estimate seed demand for rice varieties in Odisha, India
28.05.18IRRI together with the Odisha Department of Agriculture and the Odisha State Seed Corporation (OSSC)…
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Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three global leading regulatory agencies
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Health
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Nutrition
Los Baños, Philippines, 25 MAY 2018 – GR2E Golden Rice, a provitamin-A biofortified rice…
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DNA fingerprinting to improve seed systems monitoring in Bangladesh
24.05.18Stakeholders discuss the potential of DNA fingerprinting technology in addressing concerns presented…
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Helping Vietnam transform its rice sector through sustainable rice production practices
18.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI works with key partners in boosting Vietnam’s rice industry through the “Vietnam Sustainabl…
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Towards greater genetic gains in rice based agri-food systems in South Asia and Africa
16.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
On a mission to make Asia and sub-Saharan Africa more food secure, IRRI’s Stress-Tolerant Rice…
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Bangladesh Government honors former IRRI Agronomist Dr. Md. M Abdul Mazid for contributions to Bangladeshi food security
16.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dhaka, Bangladesh—25 March 2018—The government presented the “Swadhinata Padak 2018” award t…
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STRASA’s innovative approach to faster adoption of modern rice varieties and technologies
13.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developing new climate-resilient rice varieties and technologies is simply not enough to mitigate th…
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IRRI shares Rice Crop Manager experience during the 10th ICT4D Conference
11.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Through partnership with national research partners, IRRI applies sustainable global solutions to lo…
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IRRI strengthens ties with DLG to boost farm mechanization in Myanmar
10.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI, through the Closing the Rice Yield Gap Project (CORIGAP-PRO) and and in partnership with…
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CORIGAP-PRO partners map out outscaling strategies for impact
04.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI, through the Closing Rice Yield Gaps Project (CORIGAP-PRO), has been working with partners to…
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IRRI, PhilRice Los Baños team up to accelerate varietal adoption in the region
02.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) Los Baños Station are working together, …
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IRRI and Korea strengthen partnership to improve country’s local rice sector
30.04.18-
Food security
IRRI is working closely with the Government of the Republic of Korea through its…
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Unlocking rice gene diversity for food security
25.04.18-
Food security
A new study published in the Nature journal opens the possibility to accelerate rice breeding…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units commit delivery of good quality germplasm
25.04.18-
Food security
The GHU is composed of germplasm experts from CGIAR centers including AfricaRice, Bioversity Interna…
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