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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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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Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary: Data is ‘key’ to smart farming
12.10.18-
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Addressing hundreds of participants at the 2018 Global CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
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AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
11.10.18-
Food security
BY GASHAW TADESSE ABATE, TANGUY BERNARD, ALAN DE BRAUW, NICHOLAS MINOT AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT Sma…
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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity
11.10.18-
Biodiversity
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(SINGAPORE – 12 October 2018) – THE WORLD’S LARGEST rice collection is to receive…
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IRRI and Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and Planning highlight resource mobilization efforts to boost agri-food sector
11.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
09 October 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh - The vital importance of investing in research for…
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WEBINAR: Measuring policy distortions along agricultural value chains: Lessons from Africa and Asia
10.10.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The global agricultural sector is undergoing a transformation, with a rapid expansion of trade in…
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From science to scaling: 2017 Annual Report
10.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
We are pleased to share the 2017 Annual Report from the CGIAR Research Program on…
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Charting the future of India’s sugar industry
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DEEPAYAN DEBNATH AND SURESH BABU India’s domestic sugar market is in the doldrums, as the…
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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses
09.10.18-
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Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making…
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Flagship Program 3 reviews progress, strategizes for 2019
08.10.18-
Food security
Creating complementarities and synergies and harmonizing approaches were the key takeaways from the …
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Blinding consumers to the true cost of soy?
08.10.18-
Environmental health
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BOGOR, Indonesia (Forests News) — Tofu, edamame, soy sauce – if this is what you…
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Breaking the dry-spell: integrating water and soil management for better yields and resilience
07.10.18-
Food security
Ensuring that we make the best use of our water to produce enough food for…
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IFPRI Partnership on Small Scale Irrigation Research Extended Five More Years with $12.5 Million Grant
05.10.18-
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October 5, Washington, D.C.: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a f…
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Refugees and the environment: the case of Arua
03.10.18-
Environmental health
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Saving lives happens in emergencies but also over the long term. Researchers are calling for…
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IRRI and partners enhance farmer livelihood through new rice straw composting technique
02.10.18-
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Rice straw is a natural byproduct of rice production. Each kilogram of milled rice produces…
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Farmer-to-farmer learning is boosting aquaculture in Sierra Leone
02.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Sierra Leone, where commercial small-scale aquaculture is in its infancy, FISH is developing and…
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IRRI gathers researchers to advance breeding programs around the world
01.10.18-
Food security
IRRI together with the Excellence in Breeding (EiB) program and the Genomic Open-Source Breeding Inf…
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Free community labour: critical to Ethiopia’s drive to restore land and improve livelihoods
01.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia have provided huge amounts of time and labour, free of…
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