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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Ojanji Wandera16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Webinar: Lessons from Feed the Future country studies on the drivers of agrifood system transformation
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)20.05.24BY ELEANOR JONES OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 IFPRI and its research partners have studied the…
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Enhancing the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System
CGIAR Initiative on Genebanks20.05.24The International Plant Treaty provides a framework for plant genetic resources for agriculture (PGR…
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IRRI Seed Health and Logistics Unit leads quality management and cost recovery systems implementation across the CGIAR CoP at the 7th CGIAR GHU Workshop
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)20.05.24-
Food security
CIAT, COLOMBIA, 15 April 2024 — Germplasm/Seed health units staff members from various CGIAR cente…
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Know Your Food: Tools to Revolutionize Food Composition and why this Matters for People and the Planet
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)20.05.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
At the heart of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) lies a simple yet…
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‘We Have Similar Challenges’: Reflections from South-South Knowledge Exchange on Small-Scale Fisheries Monitoring
WorldFish20.05.24Eight government representatives from Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania travelled to Timor-Leste to ex…
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Agricultural credit as an engine of rural development: Challenges and opportunities in Colombia
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)20.05.24Agricultural credit, used as a tool for rural development, comes with high transaction costs, inform…
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Unearthing old rice germplasm, illuminating a new way to improvement
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)20.05.24-
Food security
Scientists are delving into molecular genetics to enhance crop yield per unit. This approach hinges…
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Transforming Global Food Systems: CGIAR’s Environmental Health and Biodiversity Platform Insights and Approach
CGIAR19.05.24-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
In an era where the degradation of our environment is more evident than ever, the…
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Inside Meghdoot, the app delivering weather-based agricultural advice to farmers across India
CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation15.05.24Top image sources: Meghdoot / CIMMYT Since 2020, farmers across nearly all of India have…
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Agency and behavior change in agri-food systems transformation: Recommendations from a synthesis exercise
CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology15.05.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Author: Sarah Freed (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT) The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology is taking a syst…
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Breaking Policy silos for Sustainable Development: A Report on Policy Coherence in India's Food, Land & Water Sectors
CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies15.05.24Policies in the food, land, and water sectors are intricately connected, as they interact and…
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Atal Bhujal Yojana: Bridging ambition with reality: Rethinking community engagement in the Atal Bhujal Yojana
CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies15.05.24The following article was originally published on India Water Portal. As Amol Singh Yadav, a…
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Participatory mapping for peace and security intervention in northern Kenya
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience15.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Authors: Benson Kenduiywo, Victor Korir, Livia Sagliocco, Victor Villa, and Anna Belli (Alliance of …
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Local authorities forge unified strategy for water management: Multi-stakeholder meeting charts course for solutions
CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas15.05.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
To address pressing water management challenges, a multi-stakeholder meeting was held at the distric…
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Partners review progress of the MFS initiative in Bangladesh
CGIAR Initiative on Mixed Farming Systems15.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
Bangladesh, where agriculture forms the backbone of livelihoods, the One CGIAR initiative on Mixed-F…
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Dialogues on challenges facing the varietal turnover in Seed Accelerator Meet
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)15.05.24-
Food security
Varanasi, India - April 22, 2024 Key stakeholders of the national seed systems formalized a…
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Ukama Ustawi Annual Report 2023: Cultivating partnerships to scale inclusive agricultural innovations in East and Southern Africa
CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa15.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
The year 2023 marked another significant period for the CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative on Dive…
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Highlighting the Alliance and ASEAN-CGIAR’s food systems transformation efforts in ASEAN University Symposium
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)15.05.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
The two-day forum, hosted by Kasetsart University’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Econom…
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