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.
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.
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.
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.
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines, 29 November 2023 ~ A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan visited the IRRI Headquarters to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES, 6 December 2023 — The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), the South Korean government through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and International...
GUWAHATI, INDIA, 20 November 2023 — The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) organized Strengthening Seed Ecosystem: Empowering Seed Entrepreneurs of Assam, a workshop to recognize the...
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) becomes an inaugural member of the World Economic Forum First Movers Coalition for Food. World Economic Forum First Movers Coalition for Food aims to...
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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.