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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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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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Engaging youth in farming is key to the future food security of Bangladesh
19.08.25By Abdul Haque, Sharif Ahmed, and Humnath Bhandari Photo 1: A youth local service provider…
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The Frontlines Learning Exchange webinar series sheds light on science in difficult places
18.08.25FLEX shares critical knowledge on climate resilience from conflict-affected settings and offers a sp…
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Closing the knowledge gap: Research priorities for preventing child wasting
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Nutrition, health & food security
Preventing child wasting is more urgent than ever before. Nearly 43 million children worldwide suffe…
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Inside the global effort to defend rice from major diseases
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Food security
By Van Schepler-Luu & Myrtel Anne Valenzuela Rice diseases such as bacterial blight and blast…
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Hunting the witch: a scientific expedition in French Guiana
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Nutrition, health & food security
In 2024, three researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT arrived in French…
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Financing a low-emission food system in Colombia: A Q&A with our experts
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
In Colombia, deforestation, largely driven by the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector ac…
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A research agenda to accelerate action on nutrition-sensitive food systems
15.08.25By Inge Brouwer, Deanna Olney, Purnima Menon, and Julie Ghostlaw August 15, 2025 A nutrition-sen…
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Fertile ground for innovation: When science, business, and farmers unite
15.08.25What do a group of rice farmers, a family-run forage business, and a research hub…
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What the Global South can teach the world about food security
14.08.25Oluwadara Alegbeleye, Adama Ndour, Girma T. Kassie As climate change dismantles the systems that are…
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Empowering Policy through CGE Modelling: A Trainer of Trainers workshop
14.08.25Authors: Shadrack Mwatu and Juneweenex Mbuthia In July and August 2025, the Kenya Institute for…
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Why Women, Peace and Security Plans in the Mediterranean Must Confront Climate Risks
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) National Action Plans are a powerful but underused tool for…
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Can Young Innovators Save Farming in the Middle East?
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Young people across the MENA region are leading a quiet revolution in agriculture, driving innovatio…
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IITA joins Oyo State, AfDB, and stakeholders to launch southwest Nigeria’s first special agro-industrial processing zone
14.08.25In a bold move to accelerate agricultural transformation in Nigeria, IITA Director General and CG…
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Nigerian women farmers: From subsistence to thriving agribusiness
14.08.25Mariam Abass and Rukayya Muhammad were subsistence farmers in northern Nigeria, producing just enoug…
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IITA project lead receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Greenwich
14.08.25Over the years, Professor Sanni has served in various leadership roles at IITA, significantly contri…
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A youth agripreneur’s journey from Benin to the global market
14.08.25Rose-Marie Mingninou, a determined agricultural sciences’ graduate, was never destined for a tradi…
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Africa's smallholder farmers face collapse if we do not act on climate change
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By John Choptiany Climate change is here. It is real. African smallholder farmers - the…
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Strengthening bean pathology collaboration to combat diseases and pests in Africa
14.08.25In recent years, the team has worked to align and leverage its collective expertise towards…
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