IRRI welcomes Ravi Kota as its Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

July 17, 2026

Researchers call for a new integrated blueprint for crop improvement to tackle hunger, malnutrition, and climate change

July 16, 2026

CORRA webinar explores collaborative breeding model to accelerate climate-resilient rice breeding across Asia

July 16, 2026

IRRI and KAFACI Convene Regional Stakeholders in Burundi to Advance Rice Productivity and Seed Systems

July 16, 2026

Integrated Solutions

In strong collaboration with governments and key stakeholders, we aim to provide comprehensive and responsive solutions that are specifically designed to align with the unique priorities and needs of each nation. Our approach focuses on understanding the demands of the local context to ensure that our integrated solutions effectively address the challenges and opportunities faced by communities.

Enhance Food Security

Strengthen rice-based agri-food systems for efficiency, productivity, and affordability.

Strengthen Nutritional Security

Integrate nutritious rice products that consumers value.

Combat Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases

Develop healthier, affordable rice products to control non-communicable diseases.

Catalyze Climate Resilience

Increase resilience to climate change and extreme weather events.

Expand Demand-driven Supply

Meet evolving consumer demands in export and value-driven markets.

Accelerate Technology Transfer

Establish global and South-South pathways to scale breakthrough innovations.

Card-sorting tool helps identify Tanzanian farmers’ preferred rice traits

July 14, 2026

Impact Goals

IRRI is dedicated to making a significant impact through three interconnected goals: improving nutrition, supporting a sustainable planet, and ensuring inclusive livelihoods. In close collaboration with governments and stakeholders, we aim to provide demand-driven integrated solutions tailored to national priorities. By leveraging our core strengths in genetics, systems science, and delivery, IRRI will focus on "sum-of-the-parts" innovations, where integrated science creates real-world impacts at the intersection of climate, food, and nature. Our new strategy enhances the global research-for-development ecosystem, creating a seamless pipeline from discovery to delivery within rice-based agri-food systems. 

Improved Nutrition

Ensure high-quality, nutritious rice is available, accessible, and affordable for all.

Sustainable Planet

Ensure rice-based systems are climate-resilient, nature-positive, and circular, reducing the overall environmental footprint of production.

Inclusive Livelihoods

Ensure rice-based systems deliver improved livelihoods for smallholders and value chain actors and promote the well-being and prosperity of the local communities that depend on them.

Creattura and IRRI Sign First Partnership under AGRI Project to Advance Low-Emission Rice Farming

July 10, 2026