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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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Call for Proposals: Research on scaling up soil moisture retention in Sub-Saharan Africa
03.07.24NL-CGIAR Research Council Invites Proposals With the increasing severity of dry spells predicted for…
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3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress to be held in China
03.07.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Background In the context of the ongoing global food crisis, malnutrition and environmental degradat…
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Delta Talks webinar discusses human-centered design in climate services for Mekong Delta farmers
03.07.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
For the eleventh installment of Delta Talks, the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) and…
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Zimbabwe – Kenya country exchange: A learning opportunity to foster agroecological transitions
02.07.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology works in eight countries of the Global South. From the…
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First training of trainers workshop in Ethiopia
02.07.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Thirty-one senior staff from government ministries, departments, and agencies, plus universities, NG…
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The simple tool bringing clarity to South African water systems
02.07.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Photo credit: Groundtruth In South Africa, a simple test using a 'clarity tube' that measures…
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Heat-Tolerant Rice Varieties Promises Increased Yields in Bangladesh
02.07.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
New heat-tolerant rice varieties developed to combat high night temperatures could save Bangladesh m…
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Ups and downs in the world rice market
02.07.24International rice prices have risen substantially. Over the past year, the main factors driving wor…
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IITA’s Leena Tripathi elected an African Academy of Sciences fellow
01.07.24IITA is thrilled to announce that IITA Eastern Africa Hub Director and Biotechnology Program Lead…
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Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes spawn multi-level prosperity in Burundi
01.07.24In Burundi, a new project is rapidly transforming the agricultural sector, bringing many farmers hop…
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Danish envoy and investor encourage more youth participation in Nigerian agriculture
01.07.24The Sector Counsellor of Food and Agriculture at the Royal Danish Consulate General in Lagos,…
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Radio outreach transforming cassava cultivation knowledge
01.07.24Cassava farmers participating in the recently concluded Radio IITA Farmers Outreach expressed their …
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IITA and partners convene stakeholders for a seed roadmap in Benin
01.07.24Stakeholders from the Republic of Benin and across Africa are organizing a summit to draw…
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Study reviews market impacts on value chain actors and small-scale soybean producers in Zambia
01.07.24Agri-food value chains (AVCs) have experienced tremendous growth and transformation in the last two …
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IITA Forest Center advances reforestation impacts globally in tree propagation project
01.07.24IITA Forest Center has been making positive headlines in reforestation since 2015. In a recently…
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Nigerien Minister of Agriculture and Livestock explores sustainable BSF technology
01.07.24The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock in Niger, ElHadji Mahamane Ousmane, paid an official court…
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Sudan’s food crisis deepens as conflict intensifies
01.07.24-
Food security
By Khalid Siddig and Rob Vos July 1, 2024 After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan …
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New genome editing research framework for Mozambique
01.07.24Mozambique is on the verge of initiating significant research in crops and animals using genome…
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