Unlocking rice gene diversity for food security
A new study published in the Nature journal opens the possibility to accelerate rice breeding to achieve food security for some of the world’s most vulnerable rice farmers. The groundbreaking...
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‘Wild’ genes open up opportunities for healthier, climate-smart rice
Los Baños, Philippines (30th January 2018) — The genome sequencing of seven wild rice varieties has finally been completed. This breakthrough is expected to provide opportunities for breeders...
Bayer partners with IRRI to advance technologies for direct-seeded rice in Asia
Singapore/Philippines, March 01, 2018 – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Bayer have signed an agreement confirming Bayer’s participation in the Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC...
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...
New research project to develop salt- and flood-tolerant rice for Africa within five years
Rice feeds 3.5 billion people globally, and provides up to 20% of the world’s daily calorie consumption. However, climate change is threatening the global annual rice harvest of approximately 800...
Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic rice value chains and food security in West Africa
(Photo credit: Trade for Development News) by Aminou Arouna, Guillaume Soullier, Patricio Mendez del Villar and Matty Demont According to this article published on Trade for Development News by the...
Protecting plants, protecting people: CGIAR germplasm health units launch phytosanitary seminar series as part of International Year of Plant Health
The Germplasm Health Units (GHUs) of various CGIAR centers have come together to organize a global seminar series for the GHU’s International Phytosanitary Awareness Week event, part of the United...
Japan and IRRI discuss strengthened cooperation for agriculture sector in Cambodia and SEA
19 November 2020, Phnom Penh ~ A meeting between Japan’s Ambassador to Cambodia and the Southeast Asian Representative of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) discussed ideas on...
Vietnam’s NDC process to be aided with tools for assessing the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation technologies in rice production
(Photo: In-person participants and representatives of IPSARD and IRRI at the training venue.) In supporting Vietnam to achieve its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under the Paris Agreement...
World Children’s Day - Nourishing Children’s Right to Thrive
Today is UN’s ‘World Children’s Day and we all want every child to thrive. The global COVID-19 pandemic reminds us, if nothing else, of the power and potential of good childhood nutrition to build...
KREI and IRRI to work together in research, policy, and rural development for developing countries
November 12 ~ Building on its strong relationships with South Korean government partners, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) recently signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding with...
CGIAR Research Pays Off: New Report Finds 10 Times Return on Investment
(Members of a women’s group in Nigeria deposit money into a shared savings box. Photo by C. De Bode/CGIAR.) Investments in CGIAR research generate returns of 10 times the amount invested, a new...
HHU-led research consortium expanded by four additional institutions to defeat bacterial rice blight, one of the main challenges for smallholder farmers
(Photo: Healthy rice plants in Telangana, India © Yugander Arra) The “Healthy Crops” project, headed by Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor Wolf B. Frommer from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU...
Southeast Asia Regional Representative pays courtesy on the Philippine Embassy in Cambodia
Phnom Penh November 3, 2020 –Yurdi Yasmi, the regional representative for Southeast Asia of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), paid a courtesy call on the Philippine Embassy Chargé d’...
ASEAN ministers call on CGIAR for sustained significant investment in rice research
(Photo: Joint Press Statement of The Forty Second Meeting of The ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry) In a Joint Press Statement of the 42nd Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian...