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Mar 25, 2025GIZ and IRRI partnership demonstrates a future of sustainable agriculture in Vietnam

Mar 20, 2025International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) strengthen their partnership to enhance rice research and innovation in Bangladesh

Mar 20, 2025Planning Thailand’s Rice Sector with Climate-Smart Farming Approaches

Mar 19, 2025Fertilize Right combines science and partnership to transform Vietnam's rice production

Mar 18, 2025Preparing for COP30: Asia Pacific drives action towards climate targets

Mar 13, 2025Southeast Asia tackles methane emissions with new low-emission rice production project

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Mar 12, 2025
IRRI launches AI-powered global digital platform for hybrid rice breeding and parental selection
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines (26 February 2025) ~ The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has launched a new AI-powered digital platform that can significantly advance and accelerate hybrid rice...
Mar 12, 2025
IRRI KM specialist highlights importance of AGRIS and AGROVOC to data management
In a series of conversations with CGIAR Knowledge Management teams, Valentina De Col from ICARDA spoke with Lea Delos Reyes, former Specialist for Library and Information and Knowledge Systems at...
Mar 10, 2025
A Forum for our Future: Sustaining and Securing Rice Food Systems Gains Traction in Cambodia
The Better Rice Initiative Cambodia (BRIC) was launched to foster national collaboration in tackling the interconnected challenges of agriculture, climate change, and food security. Ensuring farmers...

Oct 29, 2019
How we can help the Filipino farmer
For Filipinos, rice completes a meal. We love rice so much that we each consume an average of 110 kg of it per year. As the seventh highest rice-consuming country in the world, we spend 16-37 percent...
Oct 28, 2019
Outsmarting the enemy through proactive rice science
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is collaborating with partners in the Healthy Crops Research Consortium to enable rapid development of rice varieties, in order to be a step ahead of...
Oct 15, 2019
CGIAR centers push recommendations for CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Nutrition and Diets
Placing the Global South front and center Among the critical conversations had at the recently concluded CFS46 side event titled Road Testing Healthy Diets: Perspectives from the Global South was...
Oct 15, 2019
The cereals imperative of future food systems
The world urgently needs a transformation of the global food system, leading to healthier diets for all and a drastic reduction in agriculture’s environmental impact. The major cereal grains must...
Oct 03, 2019
Closing the gap: women-focused initiative empowers farmers in Odisha
Women farmers make up a sizeable part of rice production, but they have less opportunities to be productive compared to men. In Odisha, a new initiative is trying to change that. The International...
Oct 02, 2019
Conference highlights need for increased climate funding for rice agri-food systems
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) is a global multi‐stakeholder alliance comprising over 100 institutional members from the public, private, research, civil society and the financial sector. SRP is...
Sep 24, 2019
JFE Steel Joins Direct Seeded Rice Consortium, tests for performance of Iron-Coating Technology of rice in Asia
Technology aims to develop water- and labor- efficient “Water Seeding” in lieu of Wet Seeding in Farmers’ Practice JFE Steel Corporation has joined the Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), led by...
Sep 20, 2019
Regional Focus: Working towards healthy diets
IRRI's regional representative for South Asia, Nafees Meah, speaks with Geography and You to discuss his perspectives on climate change, micronutrient deficiency, food accessibility, and...
Sep 11, 2019
AATF and IRRI to bring hybrid rice and sustainable technologies to African smallholder farmers through partnership
5 September 2019 – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) recently signed a 4-year partnership agreement aimed at helping African...
Sep 11, 2019
IRRI co-organizes multi-stakeholder dialogue to strengthen extension and advisory services in Odisha
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment (DAFE) of the Government of Odisha, brought together over 35 key stakeholders for...
Sep 06, 2019
Scaling up channels for innovative digital service to reach more farmers in Odisha
Rice Crop Manager service available at Common Service Centres (CSC) The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture of Odisha , is working...
Aug 15, 2019
We have to 'reinvent' rice and rice farming, says IRRI DG
CNBC Squawk Box Asia, August 14 — In an interview today with CNBC Asia correspondents Sri Jegarajah and Amanda Drury, IRRI Director General Matthew Morell highlighted the need to reinvent the way we...