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Videographer Milo Mitchell records a video interview in an experimental maize field with a Trans-SEC researcher in Kilosa, Tanzania. Photo: Mitchell Maher / IFPRI

Editor’s picks: A year in water videos – 2025

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Farmer cultivating a field in Dakhla Oasis, in Egypt's Western Desert. Photo: Hemis/Alamy Stock Photo

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Exploring microbial diversity, antibiotic resistance, and their environmental drivers in urban and peri-urban riverbed sediments of sub-tropical river basins

January, 2026
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National training workshop in Sri Lanka on Enhancing Paddy Mapping through Open-Source Geospatial Data and Technologies

International Water Management Institute; CGIAR Climate Action Program | December 24th, 2025
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National workshop on Drought Management: Knowledge Products and Tools for Sri Lanka

International Water Management Institute; CGIAR Climate Action Program | December 24th, 2025
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Cost-benefit analysis of drought risk reduction anticipatory action in the Western Province of Zambia

International Water Management Institute; CGIAR Food Frontiers and Security Program | December 24th, 2025
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