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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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Women Custodians Safeguard the Future of Our Food
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Biodiversity
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Gender equality
The Andean region is the center of origin of many nutritious, diverse foods, including native…
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Pest management requires holistic solutions to mobile challenges
15.03.21Smallholder farming produces 50% of the world’s food and holds great promise for strengthening g…
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Choosing to challenge
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Gender equality
International Women’s Day Dear Colleagues around the World, Today is International Women’s Da…
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Healthy germplasm = healthy plants = stronger food systems
25.02.21Among the many challenges posed by climate change and its impacts on agriculture, improving plant…
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Q&A with Bernard Yada: Empowering National Agricultural Research Systems
16.02.21As senior research officer with Uganda’s National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI) Bern…
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Q&A with Craig Yencho: Unleashing the Power of the Sweetpotato Genome
12.02.21As program leader of the sweetpotato and potato breeding and genetics programs at North Carolina…
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Q&A with Luka Wanjohi: Achieving more with less, the power of statistics
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Big data
Luka Wanjohi is a regional senior knowledge management associate at the International Potato Center …
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Protecting plants, protecting people
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Among the many challenges posed by climate change and its impacts on agriculture, improving plant…
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Gender research rightfully takes center stage in new One CGIAR strategy
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Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 2021—Gender equality is rightfully elevated to a top priority in a…
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SweetGAINS in Sweetpotato Breeding
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Plant breeder Dr. Jolien Swanckaert is part of a team committed to revolutionizing plant breeding…
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Q&A with Kwame Ogero: Innovation at the Last Mile, reaching farmers with quality seed
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Kwame Ogero is a seed systems specialist working for the Sweetpotato Genetic Advancement and Innovat…
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Q&A with Maria Andrade: Breeding nutritious sweetpotatoes that farmers and families love
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Nutrition
Orange-fleshed sweetpotato breeder and World Food Prize winner Dr. Maria Isabel Andrade loves sweetp…
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Great ideas, science and dedication, 50 years of transformative innovations
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
As we mark the 50th anniversary since the foundation of CIP and the CGIAR, you can be proud of…
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The AsiaBlight Network Looks to the Future
18.01.21The post The AsiaBlight Network Looks to the Future appeared first on International Potato Cent…
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Four ways One CGIAR breeding programs can walk the talk on innovation
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Food security
By Hugo Campos and Michael Quinn In the face of accelerated climate change, COVID-19 and…
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Study reveals potato’s potential for reducing anemia
23.11.20The potato is known to be a good source of energy, potassium and vitamins C…
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Biofortified crops have a key role to play in COVID-19 response
19.11.20COVID-19 has presented many challenges to agriculture this year, but those challenges are also provi…
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The Innovation Revolution in Agriculture: A Road Map to Value Creation
18.11.20This past month, our Director of Research, Hugo Campos, released an edited, open-access Springer boo…
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