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Jan 11, 2021Determination and Resilience amid COVID-19 Uncertainty

Dec 18, 2020Vietnam thanks IRRI for contribution to VnSAT, increasing rice productivity and income for farmers

Dec 15, 2020Innovation key to sustainable intensification of polder agriculture in coastal Bangladesh

Dec 10, 2020New research project to develop salt- and flood-tolerant rice for Africa within five years

Dec 04, 2020Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic rice value chains and food security in West Africa

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Determination and Resilience amid COVID-19 Uncertainty
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) The COVID-19 pandemic has made generating income and access to food far more difficult for many, particularly women in developing countries...
IRRI Announces New Leadership at IRRI SARC
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) announced last week the appointment of Dr. Sudhanshu Singh as the new Director of IRRI South Asia Regional Centre (IRRI SARC) in Varanasi, Uttar...
New Report about America and International Scientific Engagement: Lessons & Recommendations
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently released a new publication, America and the Future of International Science , that presents the case for robust US support and participation in...
Equality and Technology are Central to Sustainable Global Food Security
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a brutal truth: while global agricultural markets remained stable with production levels even reaching an all-time high, smallholder farmers and rural communities...
Vietnam thanks IRRI for contribution to VnSAT, increasing rice productivity and income for farmers
15 December 2020, Hà Nội, Vietnam ~ During the wrap-up workshop of the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) consultancy to the Vietnam Sustainable Agriculture Transformation (VnSAT) Project...
Innovation key to sustainable intensification of polder agriculture in coastal Bangladesh
Above image: Farmers in a southern coastal polder in Bangladesh using machine transplanting. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has launched the second phase of the Sustainable...