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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
09.07.25-
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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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Aligning needs with solutions: Data-driven agricultural innovation for Vietnam’s farmers
03.08.18-
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Environmental health
Vietnam's technology innovators and farmers convened at a workshop to gain a deeper appreciation of…
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If Mary has a little lamb, who should know about it?
12.06.18-
Big data
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, enforcing new guidelines…
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If Mary has a little lamb, who should be in the know?
08.06.18-
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The GDPR and data science for agricultural development are at odds when it comes to…
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Data cleaning, the unsexy but essential aspect of data science
07.06.18-
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Environmental health
Data science involves creating models that can predict the future, such as what the yields…
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The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age
22.05.18-
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Biodiversity
The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook is a new framework to deliver biodiversity knowledge. Fi…
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Harmonizing crop trait data: Crop Ontology
22.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Crop Ontology provides scientists and breeders with a common language that describes crop phenotypes…
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Breaking Ground: Lorena Gonzalez fast-forwards action on hunger using technology
17.05.18-
Big data
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Food security
Intrigued by the unique relationship food crops have to their geographical environment, Lorena Gonza…
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Workshop on data management in agriculture
10.05.18-
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Biodiversity
PhenoHarmonIS workshop 2018 on harmonization of germplasm, phenotypic and agronomic data for plants…
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Blockchain and the future of agricultural markets
03.05.18-
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Food security
Blockchain enthusiasts in agricultural and related industries are investigating its use in ensuring …
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A vision for our D2D community
03.05.18-
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Food security
Daniel Jimenez writes how the Data-Driven Agronomy Community of Practice will advance data-driven a…
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Newly released database on varietal release and adoption estimates for eleven CGIAR mandated crops across 15 countries
03.05.18-
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Food security
New database on the adoption of improved varieties is an important resource for researchers.…
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Achieving food and nutrition security through open access data
26.04.18-
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Food security
BY SHELLEKA DARBY, INDIRA YERRAMAREDDY AND SURESH BABU The data era has arrived. Stakeholders, ent…
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How’s the water? Crowdsource to find out
23.04.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
Montane forests in East Africa play a crucial role as water towers, holding freshwater long…
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The tropical family tree: Tracking forests’ evolutionary past
28.03.18-
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Scientists have traced the evolutionary history of the world’s tropical forests, with some surpris…
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JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water
22.03.18-
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Environmental health
While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…
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Dams, Data and Decisions
13.02.18-
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As dam construction surges across Southeast Asia’s Mekong region, major changes in river flows, se…
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Scaling Up DNA Fingerprinting for Crop Variety Identification
05.02.18-
Big data
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Food security
DNA fingerprinting is the process through which genetic material is extracted from a sample taken…
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