News & Events
A collection of CGIAR featured news and upcoming events
Featured news
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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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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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News from the Centers and Programs
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Bridging Science and Storytelling: How CGIAR’s Climate Security Research Is Reaching Wider Audiences
28.10.25-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Science is powerful when people can see themselves in it. This year, the United Nations…
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From bottles to solar pumps: how Cocoa farmers in Ghana are innovating to beat water stress
28.10.25-
Environmental health
Across Ghana's cocoa belt, the rhythm of the rains is no longer reliable. Once-predictable wet…
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Farmers take the lead in shaping CGIAR crop innovations through the Tricot methodology
27.10.25When the rain finally came to her village in Tanzania, Mariam didn’t just plant her…
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Getting quality seeds of improved varieties to every farmer: A conversation on CGIAR’s Inclusive Delivery approach
27.10.25How can we ensure that the improved, climate-resilient varieties developed by CGIAR and partners rea…
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Unlocking Liberia’s soybean market potential for economic growth: Four-pillar EU-backed Seeds4Liberia Project set to strengthen seed system
27.10.25Agriculture production in Liberia faced a major challenge, i.e., limited access to high-quality seed…
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TAAT Cassava Compact and ENABLE-TAAT partner to drive private sector adoption of cassava technologies in Nigeria and DRC
27.10.25The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Cassava Compact, led by IITA-CGIAR,…
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