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13.07.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Most rural people in Zimbabwe depend on crop–livestock farming, growing cereals and legumes, and r…

IRRI, FAO teams up to develop sustainable rice value chain in Africa

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

12.07.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

IRRI, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is equipping the next genera…

2018 GFPR & CASDR Beijing Launch: China provides valuable lessons in food security and agricultural development

11.07.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY LIN GAO Countries must work with and learn from each other to advance progress…

Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia

11.07.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Livestock play a crucial role in national development in Ethiopia, accounting for 40% of agricultura…

Livestock’s potential in Tanzania is ‘huge’—keynote by ILRI’s Iain Wright at the National Livestock Expo

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

10.07.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

ILRI deputy director general Iain Wright gave a keynote speech at Tanzania’s first National Livest…

Forests: The greenest pastures?

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security

Ethiopia - How can you keep farms productive for generations while reducing the impact on…

Reassessing the aid-policy-growth relationship: A new approach

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY XIN GENG AND MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ Can foreign aid be effective only if countries have…

Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…

Connecting the dots: the role of social science research in agricultural R&D systems

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Nutrition

Are we doing enough to ensure social science research contributes to advancing agricultural R&D …

Why farmers in India adopt certain technologies but ignore others

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Food security

BY AVINASH KISHORE Exactly 125 years ago, British agricultural scientist John Augustus Voelcker warn…

India gets its first biofortified sorghum

Food security
Nutrition

India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…

Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Food security
Health

The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…

Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant

Environmental health
Food security

“There is space for trees in refugee settlements,” Clement Okia told officials, NGOs, donors and…

Nepal, IRRI strengthens collaboration to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce budget-draining rice importation at 15th National Rice Day

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Rice importation eats up a substantial chunk of Nepal’s national budget each year, adversely affec…

RICE CRP to boost communication of its vision and impact across regions

05.07.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

To map out the general course of its operations towards achieving food security and eliminating…

Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania

04.07.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…

Climate change impacts on rice in Africa