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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Raising productivity and profits, How AgWise is Closing Yield Gaps through AI
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Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nairobi, 20 June 2025 (IITA) - Across Africa smallholder farmers battle working with degraded soils,…
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Fruit and vegetable intake among elderly people in Bangkok
19.06.25Published in the American Journal of Health Behavior & World Vegetable Center Fruits and …
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The building of a pan-African soil information system for soil health monitoring
19.06.25The Soils4Africa project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon2020 Programme, was designed…
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IITA joins ICARDA-led global consortium to spearhead biotechnological innovations in the battle against the red palm weevil
19.06.25At the 17th Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation, the United Arab…
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How I became a poultry farmer, role model in my community – Amina
19.06.25In 2023, Amina Bellow Abubakar had the opportunity to participate in the poultry production training…
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IITA supports KDU’s journey into agricultural excellence
19.06.25As part of its ongoing commitment to fostering impactful partnerships with tertiary institutions, I…
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