Will extreme weather lead to multiple breadbasket failures and threaten global food security?
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The hidden costs of gendered inequities: Findings from true cost accounting of cropping systems in Kenya
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50th Anniversary Impact Assessment Report: Highlights of how IFPRI research has shaped global food policy
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Building smallholder farmers’ resilience through index insurance in Kenya
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Women at the center: Strengthening empowerment in fragile food systems
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Beyond the algorithm: The need for farmer participation and data justice in digital agricultural technology
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All in together? How communities contribute to school meals programs
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Governing sustainable, climate-resilient, and equitable urban and peri-urban food systems transformations
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Signaling, screening, or sunk costs? Experimental evidence on how prices affect agricultural technology adoption in East Africa
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How accurately do the large language models (LLMs) powering chatbots respond to questions on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Indian agriculture?
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Growth monitoring and promotion as an opportunity to improve early childhood development
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IPC: Famine and food insecurity spread in Sudan as humanitarian crisis worsens
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Bridging the gap: Unlocking intermediary bottlenecks for small-scale irrigation through human-centered design in Nigeria
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Informing crisis response in Sudan: From evidence to action
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Peace on the plate: A 2025 Borlaug Dialogue conversation on food security and global stability
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Exploring the promise of regenerative agriculture for school meal programs
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Escaping the fragility-poverty trap: New evidence on financing food systems in Africa
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Designing diverse landscapes for human well-being
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Celebrating 50 years of IFPRI: Transforming agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Generative AI’s environmental footprint poses difficult tradeoffs for agrifood systems in low- and middle-income countries
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Screening for early childhood obesity: What can we learn from growth monitoring data?
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How 50 years of IFPRI research have shaped global food policy
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No olive branch: Natural resource destruction and prospects for restoration in Gaza and the West Bank
No olive branch: Natural resource destruction and prospects for restoration in Gaza and the West Bank Addressi...
From participation to power: Advancing women’s leadership in rural development
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Asking the right questions: A stakeholder dialogue on generative AI in digital extension
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Millions on the move: Bridging research and policy to address growing global challenges of displacement and migration
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Africa’s youth and the future of food: IFPRI’s Key takeaways from AFS Forum 2025
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IFPRI 2025 Global Food Policy Report Africa launch: Charting a course for agrifood system transformation
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TICAD 9: How IFPRI and Japan leverage advanced technologies, know-how. and institutional innovations to advance African development
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Women’s participation yields benefits for water management: Insights from village dams in India
Women’s participation yields benefits for water management: Insights from village dams in India A pathway to...
Costs and benefits of using social learning games to support Indian communities in better managing their dams
Costs and benefits of using social learning games to support Indian communities in better managing their dams ...
African agrifood trade at a crossroads
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IFPRI and causal impact evaluation: Evidence for real-life policies
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South-South triangular cooperation for food system transformation: Lessons for the CGIAR Capacity Sharing Accelerator
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Overcoming obstacles and expanding opportunities for digital finance in the midstream of agrifood value chains
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AReNA’s groundbreaking research on links between agriculture, nutrition, and healthy diets
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A new framework for assessing the cost-effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation measures: Evidence from China’s dairy farms
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The global drone revolution in agriculture
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Bridging food systems and carbon markets: Policy, practice, and progress in Kenya
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Grounding AI in practice: What extension gets wrong, what extension gets right, and what AI can learn
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Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption
Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption A form of fertilizer offers advantages ...
Closing the knowledge gap: Research priorities for preventing child wasting
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A research agenda to accelerate action on nutrition-sensitive food systems
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Realistic options for repurposing fertilizer subsidy spending
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Gaza’s catastrophe will have long-lasting impacts on lives and livelihoods
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Ethiopia’s new digital health information system contributes to major improvements in maternal and health care
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The struggle to get food aid from Egypt to Gaza: Insights from the Egyptian Food Bank
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Afghanistan: FAO and UK launch GBP 10 million initiative to boost rural resilience and food security
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World Breastfeeding Week: Research shows the vital importance of support for mothers and infants
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Sudan’s war is an economic disaster: Here’s how bad it could get
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Partners from Indonesia and the Philippines sharpen SSNM expertise through IRRI masterclass
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What do we know about the future of food systems?
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Understanding and supporting collective action in natural resource management through experiential learning games: Examples from three continents
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How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Evidence from Ethiopia
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Bundled agricultural loans and insurance unlock financial inclusion for Odisha’s farmers
14 JULY 2025 (LAGUNA, Philippines) — “Bundling agricultural credit with crop insurance has the potenti...
RDA-IRRI champions climate-smart pest management for sustainable rice production
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Agrifood value chain finance can expand opportunities for smallholders
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IRRI joins Burundi’s Diplomatic Week, leads facility tour of Regional Crop Improvement Hub
28 June 2025 (BUJUMBURA, Burundi) — IRRI joins Burundi’s Diplomatic Week, bringing together over 200 diplo...
Northern Nigeria’s hunger crisis: Transforming food aid to rebuild food systems
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Proposed U.S. ‘reciprocal’ tariffs vary widely by product
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AI in qualitative research: Using large language models to code survey responses in native languages
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IRRI Drives Efforts to Scale up Agricultural Innovations in Bangladesh
Bushra Humaira Dhaka, Bangladesh – In collaboration with CGIAR’s Scaling for Impact (S4I) Program, the Int...
IRRI-BADC launches digital tool to improve rice supply in Bangladesh
Seed supply planning in Bangladesh has faced several challenges over the years, including reliance on manual p...
FAO and ITU launch “Robotics for Good – Youth Challenge 2025-2026” to tackle global food insecurity
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New Zinc-Rich Rice Variety “Spoorthi” Rolled Out in India
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