News Our impact goes beyond rice Discover the latest updates and impactful stories from IRRI’s work around the world. IRRI NewsEventsMedia Center Home News & Events News Highlights IRRI releases four rice varieties in DRC August 15, 2025 August 12, 2025 New rice gene variant boosts yield under drought—IRRI August 8, 2025 Cultivating Healthy Soil for High-Quality Rice: A Modern Farmer's Guide August 7, 2025 CGIAR Asia tripartite partnership appoints new Director of Ethics and Business Conduct August 5, 2025 RR2P 2025: Connecting Global Perspectives with Ground-Level Realities in Rice Science All News Country - Any -BangladeshBurundiChinaSingaporeBruneiIndiaKenyaSouth KoreaCambodiaMozambiqueNepalIndonesiaSri LankaTanzaniaLao PDRUgandaMyanmarPhilippinesThailandMalaysiaVietnamAfricaSouth AsiaSoutheast AsiaEast Asia Date Published Min Max Search Asian Mega-Deltas Initiative builds learning alliance to address climate change issues in ... To form a learning alliance that has an interest to address climate-related issues in the Mekong Delta of Cambodia, the CGIAR Initiative on Securing November 2, 2022 UPLB Chancellor and IRRI DG meet to revitalize ties amid establishment of new flagship res... The 60-year partnership between the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is set to be October 26, 2022 International crop science conference tackled how to innovate to offer solutions for food ... (SEOUL, South Korea, 18 October 2022) – Innovation in crop science research became front and center in the international event organized to mark the October 18, 2022 Cluster-based Farmer Field School in the polders of the coastal zone of Bangladesh: improv... By Manoranjan Kumar Mondal, Mary Ann Batas, Muhammad Humayoun Kabir, and Sudhir Yadav Bangladesh has achieved self-sufficiency in rice using Green September 30, 2022 Mainstreaming rice straw circular economy in Vietnam To promote rice straw circular economy in Vietnam, the international Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the Can Tho Department of September 27, 2022 Vietnam’s first ‘AGRITECHNICA ASIA Live’: An International Success CAN THO, Vietnam, September 1, 2022) - Almost 4,000 attendees; 80 companies with machinery demonstrations and displays from tillage and sowing to September 22, 2022 How to make rice production more sustainable in Bangladesh? Researchers identified sustainable crop production models and technologies that farmers and researchers in Bangladesh can adopt to revolutionize their September 20, 2022 SpeedBreed: A crop breeding center built for speed The time it takes to develop new varieties of economically important crops like rice, wheat and maize is not fast enough to keep up with the demand in September 19, 2022 ASEAN-CGIAR regional program being submitted to the 44th AMAF meet After being successfully presented at the Special Senior Officials Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (SOM-AMAF) in August, September 14, 2022 IRRI joins the United Nations Global Compact Initiative IRRI is committed to the UN Global Compact initiative’s pursuit of a sustainable future. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the September 12, 2022 IRRI 2021 annual report included in the 2022 Hallbars Best of World Sustainability Reports... The Hallbars Sustainability Research Institute has included IRRI's 2021 annual Report in its 2022 Best in the World list under the category of September 6, 2022 Nepal releases seven new and improved rice varieties to increase domestic rice production The National Seed Board of Nepal has approved the release of seven new rice varieties for cultivation in 2022 namely Ghaiya-3, Hardinath-4, August 30, 2022 Government of Assam and IRRI extend APART collaboration The Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS) Society, Government of Assam, has signed the extension of collaboration with   August 24, 2022 Eleven new and improved rice varieties released in Burundi Recently, the Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU) released eleven new and improved rice varieties that are resilient to climate August 18, 2022 Indian agricultural research institution partners learn more about speed breeding Delegates from national agricultural research and extension system (NARES) in India recently gathered at the International Rice Research Institute August 16, 2022 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 24 Next page ›› Join Our Newsletter Sign up to receive the latest research updates and global stories from IRRI. Sign Up