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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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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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The bean that could withstand hurricanes
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Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he thinks he saw one once … or…
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Policy seminar: To feed the world, youth in agriculture required
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Food security
February 12, 2018 IFPRI Blog Mary Kate Costello Katarlah Taylor Policy seminar: To feed the…
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Accelerating progress to meet 2030 goals to improve child and maternal nutrition
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Nutrition
February 9, 2018 IFPRI Blog Purnima Menon Stuart Gillespie Pratima Mathews Accelerating progress to …
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The first factor for a successful application is obviously that farmers can access and use it,” James Legg tells SciDev.Net
09.02.18James Legg, a Tanzania-based plant virologist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture…
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TAAT launch signifies new day for African agriculture
09.02.18IITA hosted scientists, technologists, economists, development partners, and program specialists fro…
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Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food security, and nutrition
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
February 8, 2018 Guest post Justin Yifu Lin Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food…
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Dr. Humnath Bhandari appointed as IRRI Representative in Bangladesh
08.02.18IRRI is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Humnath Bhandari as IRRI Representative in…
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Scaling Up DNA Fingerprinting for Crop Variety Identification
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Big data
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Food security
DNA fingerprinting is the process through which genetic material is extracted from a sample taken…
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Dr. Uma Shankar Singh as Interim Director of IRRI South Asia Regional Centre, India
05.02.18IRRI is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Uma Shankar Singh as the Interim…
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“…An exceptional opportunity to promote up-and-coming African researchers”
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ma…
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New African agricultural transformation scorecard highlights continent’s progress
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Food security
Feb 1, 2018 Press Statement New African agricultural transformation scorecard highlights continent…
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Politics in the time of cholera: Zambia’s U-turn on street vending (All Africa)
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Health
Jan 30, 2018 In the News Politics in the time of cholera: Zambia’s U-turn…
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IITA and partners meet with Togo president and officials to discuss joint projects
29.01.18The IITA Director General, Nteranya Sanginga, in a joint delegation with the CEO of the…
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Leadership, accountability, and setting priorities are key to end hunger and undernutrition
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Nutrition
Jan 27, 2018 Press Statement Leadership, accountability, and setting priorities are key to end hunge…
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FTA’s research domain on livelihood systems receives strong rating
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Photo by SK Dalal/ICRAF Following the revision and resubmission of Flagship 2 on livelihood system…
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World Bank-funded IRRI project launched in Assam, India to raise farmers’ productivity and income
26.01.18The World Bank, together with the Government of Assam, launched the Assam Agribusiness and Rural…
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International Rice Informatics Consortium holds workshop to discuss new technological breakthroughs
26.01.18The International Rice Informatics Consortium (IRIC) is an organization that aims to give stakeholde…
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IRRI accomplishments in Cambodia, highlighted during the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Intensification and Nutrition
26.01.18PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – more than 160 delegates were invited to the 1st International Conference…
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