News & Events
A collection of CGIAR featured news and upcoming events
Featured news
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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
16.05.25-
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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News from the Centers and Programs
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What the Global South can teach the world about food security
14.08.25Oluwadara Alegbeleye, Adama Ndour, Girma T. Kassie As climate change dismantles the systems that are…
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Empowering Policy through CGE Modelling: A Trainer of Trainers workshop
14.08.25Authors: Shadrack Mwatu and Juneweenex Mbuthia In July and August 2025, the Kenya Institute for…
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Why Women, Peace and Security Plans in the Mediterranean Must Confront Climate Risks
14.08.25-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) National Action Plans are a powerful but underused tool for…
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Can Young Innovators Save Farming in the Middle East?
14.08.25-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Youth
Young people across the MENA region are leading a quiet revolution in agriculture, driving innovatio…
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IITA joins Oyo State, AfDB, and stakeholders to launch southwest Nigeria’s first special agro-industrial processing zone
14.08.25In a bold move to accelerate agricultural transformation in Nigeria, IITA Director General and CG…
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Nigerian women farmers: From subsistence to thriving agribusiness
14.08.25Mariam Abass and Rukayya Muhammad were subsistence farmers in northern Nigeria, producing just enoug…
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