News & Events
A collection of CGIAR featured news and upcoming events
Featured news
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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CGIAR System Board Chair Messages
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Message from the CGIAR System Board Chair: Travel and meeting highlights, and dialogue with the Executive Managing Director
09.01.24Greetings to the CGIAR family. I'm here to give you an update on what has…
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CGIAR Board Chair Travel and Meetings Update
15.12.23Warm greetings to the CGIAR community. I’ll open this edition of my blog by commending the…
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Catching up with CGIAR Board Chair at WorldVeg
15.12.23Greetings to the One CGIAR family. For this edition of my blog, I'm speaking to…
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News from the Centers and Programs
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Signed, Sealed and Scaling: Formalizing a Collective Commitment for Circular Bioeconomy Innovation
01.07.25Authors: Dzifa Agbefu, Eric Nartey (PhD)& Susanne Bodach (PhD) International Water Management In…
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Shaping strategies for Rwanda’s agricultural transformation
30.06.25By Maria DiGiovanni, James Warner, and Serge Mugabo June 30, 2025 Successes from evidence-informe…
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Integrating Climate Security into the Future of UN Peacekeeping in Africa
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Explicit mentions of climate security have been removed or weakened in recent UN mandates. For…
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Financing healthy, equitable, and sustainable food systems: Laying out options for action
30.06.25By Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Geeta Sethi, and Johan Swinnen June 30, 2025 Transforming food systems re…
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Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day: Lessons from research on the food environment in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam
27.06.25By Alan de Brauw, originally posted as an IFPRI blog. Improving diets is a key…
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Harnessing digital tools in securing soil health for Africa’s food future
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nairobi, 27 June 2025 (IITA) - As it marks its first anniversary, the Regional Hub…
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