‘Seed funding’: How more billionaires can help end world hunger
CGIAR Managing Director Dr. Claudia Sadoff argues that long-term endowments for genebanks can be the best way of putting one’s money where the world’s mouths are.
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
CGIAR, the largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership in the world, has challenged governments and donors to double funding to end hunger and halt climate change by 2030. -
Two Degree Initiative for Food and Agriculture
The ‘Two Degree Initiative’ (2DI) is a coalition of hundreds of like-minded partner organizations from around the world. They are brought together with a single unifying vision – to transform the global food system for a climate-smart future.A recording of the CCAFS-WRI webinar on the Two Degree Initiative (2DI), where IRRI plays a lead role, will be streamed on 25 January at the Climate Adaptation Summit. -
CGIAR Research Pays Off: New Report Finds 10 Times Return on Investment
Investments in CGIAR research generate returns of 10 times the amount invested, a new report has found. The report, commissioned by the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation, found a 10 to 1 benefit-cost ratio on CGIAR investments of $60 billion in present value terms over almost five decades.
Highlights
Trainers prep for scaling a digital platform that improves rice production monitoring in the Mekong River Delta
The Department of Crop Production (DCP) of Vietnam and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) organized training in the use of the Rice production activity Monitoring and Reporting (...
27th Council for Partnership on Rice Research in Asia (CORRA) concludes successful conference in Bali, Indonesia
Bali, Indonesia, November 3, 2023 – The 27th Council for Partnership on Rice Research in Asia (CORRA) concluded its annual meeting from November 1 and 2 in Bali, Indonesia. Hosted by Badan...
Shell and IRRI announce collaboration on low-emissions rice production during IRC 2023
The REMET-Rice Project is a research collaboration between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the global company Shell. Housed under IRRI’s Climate Change Mitigation Research Unit...
Studies show rice breeding innovations and technologies have made positive impacts on Asian and African farmers
Manila, Philippines (27 October 2023) – Evidence of the positive impact of rice breeding innovations and technologies on the productivity, income, and resilience to climate change of Asian and...
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Rice Improvement: Physiological, Molecular Breeding, and Genetic Perspectives
Rice Improvement: Physiological, Molecular Breeding, and Genetic Perspectives is a recently published open-access book dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the International Rice Research Institute. Edited by Jauhar Ali of IRRI and Shabir Hussain Wani of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, the book highlights modern rice research advances in physiology, molecular breeding, and genetics that are helping scientists increase productivity, improve biotic and abiotic stress tolerances, and enhance the nutritional quality of rice. Download the book for free at Springer Link.
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Flood resilience loci SUBMERGENCE 1 and ANAEROBIC GERMINATION 1 interact in seedlings established underwater
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