IRRI Education

Hands-on Training on Biotic Stress Resistance Evaluation
2026-09-03 14:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Hands-on Training on Biotic Stress Resistance Evaluation

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Training Course on Rice Root Phenotyping
2026-04-16 14:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Training Course on Rice Root Phenotyping

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IPA-IRRI Monitoring & Program Evaluation Course
2026-02-19 14:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
IPA-IRRI Monitoring & Program Evaluation Course

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Speed Breeding: Addressing the Needs of Agri-Business Today
2025-12-05 14:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
Speed Breeding: Addressing the Needs of Agri-Business Today

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Advanced Approaches to Soil Health Management in South Asia’s Rice-Based Cropping Systems
2025-09-17 08:00 - 2025-09-20 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
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Agricultural Drone Training
2024-09-17 08:00 - 2024-09-19 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)

Introduction to CGIAR Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR)
2024-09-16 08:00 - 2024-09-18 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Scaling of innovations is a key requirement for addressing societal challenges in sectors such as health, agriculture, and the environment. Research for development (R4D) programs, projects and other interventions struggle to make particular innovations go to scale.

The Introduction to CGIAR Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR) offers IRRI participants a comprehensive understanding of how to design, implement, and monitor scaling strategies for agricultural innovations within research for development contexts. This course leverages the principles and tools of Scaling Readiness, a framework developed by CGIAR and led by Wageningen University and IITA, to support decision-making on the scaling of innovations.

The Scaling Readiness is an essential knowledge and tools to effectively scale agricultural innovations within the framework of One CGIAR’s new stage-gating and performance management system. Scaling Readiness plays a crucial role in this cross-CGIAR initiative, driving significant changes across the organization by ensuring that all CGIAR Initiatives adopt and integrate its principles. Participants will learn to assess the readiness of innovations, identify bottlenecks, and develop strategies to overcome these challenges, thereby increasing the likelihood of achieving development outcomes at scale.

Participants will learn how Scaling Readiness has been successfully embedded in the project and performance management systems of CGIAR Research Initiative, and how its application can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through more effective innovation scaling strategies. Through its standardized data collection and analysis approach, Scaling Readiness can be used to monitor a portfolio of innovation and scaling investments. It also supports prioritization, and decisions on the advancement of innovations to achieve societal outcomes at scale in the most resource-efficient way.

Training Workshop on Self-sufficiency, Food Security and Agricultural Transformation
2024-09-10 08:00 - 2024-09-12 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
This course will explore food security, food self-sufficiency and the food price dilemma faced by agricultural price policies. It will examine the different types of policies used to achieve those objectives and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, it will discuss drivers of structural and agricultural transformation, and the role of agriculture in alleviating poverty and malnutrition.

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Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the SRP Standard and Performance Indicators
2024-02-05 08:00 - 2024-02-08 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the SRP Standard and Performance Indicators

Application Link: https://bit.ly/3O0TOHg

Course Fee: $685

The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) promotes resource-use efficiency and sustainability in the global rice sector to enable 1 million rice farmers to adopt climate-smart, sustainable best practices in rice production, boosting farm incomes and livelihoods and protecting our environment.

SRP aims to build an expert pool of SRP Authorized Training Providers (institutions), Trainers (individuals), and Auditors to deliver the most current and accurate know-how on the core SRP instruments to SRP Registered Projects, SRP Members, and other rice sector stakeholders – to help scale implementation globally and at high-quality.

This course, Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard & Performance Indicators, is a three-day intensive skills course designed to help participants relate the benefits of sustainable rice farming to farmers; explain the SRP Standards on rice cultivation and the performance indicators; and conduct data collection and assessment among farmers to measure compliance to SRP performance indicators

Objectives

At the end of the training, the participants will:

Understand the purpose of the SRP instruments: focus on the SRP Standard & Performance Indicators, how they are linked, and how they can be used together to drive sustainable rice cultivation; and

Gain understanding of application of SRP Standard and Performance Indicators to meet targets of SRP outreach projects

Key Modules

Introduction to Sustainable Rice

SRP Standards: 1) Conceptual Framework of the Standard, 2) Understanding the 41 Requirements in the SRP Standard

SRP Performance Indicators: 1) Conceptual Framework of the Standard 2) Understanding the 12 SRP Performance Indicators 3) Using the PIs for Measuring Impact

Assurance Scheme

Certification

Successful participants from this training will be awarded the SRP Authorized Trainer certification

Course Duration/Format

Five (5) days; Online training

Target Audience

Training-of-trainers style course for persons who will rain individuals or teams to implement farmer outreach and capacity building activities (e.g. public officials, development practitioners, private company representatives, NGOs, program managers, consultants, lead farmers, or related persons); prior experience as a trainer is highly recommended.

Note

The SRP course has been scheduled for the week following the conclusion of the 6th International Rice Congress, allowing international participants to plan out their travel for the IRC with their attendance at the training

Training and Exposure visit on Climate Smart Agriculture "RIce Post Production" for Farmers
2023-12-18 08:00 - 2023-12-20 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Training and Exposure visit on Climate Smart Agriculture “RIce Post Production” for Farmers

Participants Profile

Farmers

Institute

Bihar Agricultural University

Venue

ISARC

Capacity Development Training on Climate Resilient Agriculture for DAFE/DOWR Officials under OIIPCRA
2023-12-13 08:00 - 2023-12-15 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Capacity Development Training on Climate Resilient Agriculture for DAFE/DOWR Officials under OIIPCRA

Participants Profile

AAO/BAO Officials

Institute

Directorate of Agriculture and Food Production, Government of Odisha

Venue

ISARC

Exposure Visit for Assam High Level Officials
2023-10-23 08:00 - 2023-10-29 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines

Recent Advances in Rice Breeding
2023-10-23 08:00 - 2023-10-27 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines
Recent Advances in Rice Breeding

Application Link: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7cc252ef34924359b283f7f612055c6d

Orientation Program for BSc Agriculture Students
2023-10-17 08:00 - 2023-10-18 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)

Orientation Program for 4th Year BSc Agriculture Students
2023-10-12 08:00 - 2023-10-13 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Orientation Program for 4th Year BSc Agricultue Students

DA-SERVE Digital Knowledge Tools for Precision Farming
2023-10-03 08:00 - 2023-10-05 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines

Phenotyping for Abiotic Stress in Rice
2023-09-18 08:00 - 2023-09-22 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines
Phenotyping for Abiotic Stress in Rice

This course is designed for participants to master the capacity to characterize abiotic stress-affected environments and phenotype rice genotypes for tolerance to submergence, salinity, anaerobic germination, and drought.
Course Fee: USD 1,499
Application Link: bit.ly/PhenotypingCourse
Application Deadline: August 15, 2023

Basic Data Analysis
2023-09-04 08:00 - 2023-09-08 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines
Basic Data Analysis

The Basic Data Analysis and Research Data Management course is an online course designed to acquaint researchers with the principles of experimental design, basic experimental designs used in crop research, analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. It also introduces Statistical Tool for Agricultural Research (STAR), a user-friendly software that uses GUI created in Java and functions developed in R to assist crop scientists in the design and analysis of data. The course employs a combination of lectures, Demos, and hands-on exercises using STAR.

Interested participants may enroll by clicking on the link below and completing the registration form.

https://bit.ly/3Wly8s4

The course fee is as follows:Module 1: Basic Data Analysis – 203 USDModule 2: Research Data Management – 203 USDParticipants can choose to attend one or both modules.

Good Practices in Managing Research Data
2023-08-28 08:00 - 2023-09-01 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines
Good Practices in Managing Research Data

The Basic Data Analysis and Research Data Management course is an online course designed to acquaint researchers with the principles of experimental design, basic experimental designs used in crop research, analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. It also introduces Statistical Tool for Agricultural Research (STAR), a user-friendly software that uses GUI created in Java and functions developed in R to assist crop scientists in the design and analysis of data. The course employs a combination of lectures, Demos, and hands-on exercises using STAR.

Interested participants may enroll by clicking on the link below and completing the registration form.

https://bit.ly/3Wly8s4

The course fee is as follows:Module 1: Basic Data Analysis – 203 USDModule 2: Research Data Management – 203 USDParticipants can choose to attend one or both modules.

Rice: Research to Production Course
2023-05-29 08:00 - 2023-06-16 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines
Rice: Research to Production Course

This course covers the basics of rice production, an overview of the changes and challenges in the rice industry from production to market, an awareness of the research considerations around the rice-based agri-food systems, advancements in rice breeding, new innovations in rice science, and building effective collaborations within the international research community. Additionally, the course will also cover topics related to germplasm exchange and property rights.

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More information

Rice Research to Production Online Course (Face-to-Face Program)
2023-05-22 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines

RDA-IRRI Rice Post-production to Market Training Course
2023-05-08 08:00 - 2023-05-12 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines

Exposure Visit for Grameen Foundation Staff
2023-04-17 12:00 - 2023-04-22 12:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines
Exposure Visit for Grameen staff (Tentative date)

Project Cycle Management for Research for Development and Extension
2023-04-17 08:00 - 2023-04-18 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Face-to-face, IRRI HQ Philippines
Rice Post-production to Market (RDA)
