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 RCM Indonesia Project Milestones and Next Steps Discussed with BRMP Food Crops August 20, 2025 August 20, 2025 Training of Masters Brings LKP 2.0 to Agricultural Trainers, Extension Workers, and Lecturers August 15, 2025 IRRI releases four rice varieties in DRC 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 All News Country - Any -BangladeshBurundiChinaSingaporeBruneiIndiaKenyaSouth KoreaCambodiaMozambiqueNepalIndonesiaSri LankaTanzaniaLao PDRUgandaMyanmarPhilippinesThailandMalaysiaVietnamAfricaSouth AsiaSoutheast AsiaEast Asia Date Published Min Max Search WOMEN OF RAKHINE: Knowledge leads to Agency Knowledge and technology have provided many sectors ways to advance to enhance output and quality of life. Agriculture, for instance, has progressed March 17, 2021 IRRI South Asia Regional Centre holds 4th Coordination Committee Meeting 13 March 2021 ~ Established in 2018 by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as a hub for key research and capacity building March 16, 2021 The potential for rice sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa and opportunities for wome... OpEd for International Women's Day 2021 Globally, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the region most at risk for food insecurity and is largely March 12, 2021 Swiss Ambassador to PH meets with IRRI to discuss opportunities for collaboration 09 March 2021 ~ Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation to the Philippines H.E. Alain Gaschen and his delegation made a “virtual” visit to IRRI to learn March 11, 2021 How heavy is the sky? Addressing the inequity and challenges of women in agri-food systems 11 March 2021 OpEd for International Women's Day 2021 I. The burden of holding up half the sky The Chinese saying goes, “Women March 11, 2021 Why empowering women in agriculture is essential to global food security OpEd - The age of agriculture is truly a milestone that forever changed the history of humankind. Prior to agriculture, our ancestors gathered, March 9, 2021 International group of researchers from the USA, UK, and the Philippines receives BBSRC-NS... Researchers from Oregon State University and the University of Arizona in the USA, University of Liverpool and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics March 6, 2021 Komboka rice variety takes spotlight in field day 24 February 2020, Kisumu, Kenya --- The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization March 1, 2021 The line of defense against the transboundary spread of pests and diseases Plant improvement has always been an important component of food production and security. However, the impacts of climate change—higher temperatures, March 1, 2021 CG centres have a clear role to play, says Bangladesh agriculture minister Bangladesh agriculture minister Dr. Mohammad Abdur Razzaque has called upon the CGIAR centres to strengthen their support for the development of February 25, 2021 Vietnam expands CS-MAP program after successful implementation in Mekong Delta The Winter-Spring rice crop of 2019-2020 was a successful harvest in the Mekong River Delta (MRD), Vietnam despite the most severe salinity intrusion February 18, 2021 Collective Action for a Sustainable Future: Working Together to Transform Asian Mega-Delt... For thousands of years, hundreds of millions of people have lived their lives and earned their living within Asia’s mega-deltas, global food baskets February 12, 2021 Agriculture Department and IRRI set the Philippine rice research roadmap for the next 5 ye... The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have identified research agenda that will guide the February 11, 2021 Stopping climate change from silently crippling the core of our food system We tend to paint the impact of climate change using big, brash strokes: jacked-up storm systems with terrifyingly violent winds, vast fields February 8, 2021 New CARDI director cites IRRI’s role in making Cambodia a rice-exporting country Phnom Penh, 2 February 2021 – Mr. Lor Bunna, the new CARDI director of the Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), received February 4, 2021 Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 32 Next page ›› Join Our Newsletter Sign up to receive the latest research updates and global stories from IRRI. Sign Up