Ravi Kota
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.
Strengthen rice-based agri-food systems for efficiency, productivity, and affordability.
Integrate nutritious rice products that consumers value.
Develop healthier, affordable rice products to control non-communicable diseases.
Increase resilience to climate change and extreme weather events.
Meet evolving consumer demands in export and value-driven markets.
Establish global and South-South pathways to scale breakthrough innovations.
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.
Ensure high-quality, nutritious rice is available, accessible, and affordable for all.
Ensure rice-based systems are climate-resilient, nature-positive, and circular, reducing the overall environmental footprint of production.
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.