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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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Building Forward Better: Experts Echo the Call for Food System Transformation
29.03.21The post Building Forward Better: Experts Echo the Call for Food System Transformation appeared…
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Trends in Varietal Diversity of Main Staple Crops in Asia and Africa and Implications for Sustainable Food Systems
22.03.21A recent study from the International Potato Center (CIP) calls attention to downward trends in…
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Women hold the seeds of a stronger food system for Peru
18.03.21The extremes of climate change and now COVID-19 have put Andean farmers at the sharpest end of…
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Women Custodians Safeguard the Future of Our Food
16.03.21-
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
08.03.21-
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
02.02.21-
Big data
Luka Wanjohi is a regional senior knowledge management associate at the International Potato Center …
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Protecting plants, protecting people
29.01.21-
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
28.01.21-
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
27.01.21-
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
25.01.21-
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
25.01.21-
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
20.01.21-
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
11.01.21-
Food security
By Hugo Campos and Michael Quinn In the face of accelerated climate change, COVID-19 and…
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