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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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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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CIMMYT to lead CGIAR varietal improvement and seed delivery project in Africa
25.04.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sorghum field in Kiboko, Kenya. (Photo: E Manyasa/ICRISAT) As part of the One CGIAR reform,…
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New Endeavor Fast-tracks the Power of Crop Diversity for Climate Resilience
17.03.22Researchers will source useful gene variations from CGIAR genebanks to develop climate-smart crops A…
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Wheat titan honored posthumously by India
27.01.22India has conferred posthumously upon Sanjaya Rajaram, 2014 World Food Prize laureate and former whe…
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Climate change slows wheat breeding progress for yield and wide adaptation, new study finds
18.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nearly four decades of repeated crossing and selection for heat and drought tolerance have greatly…
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Digital phenotyping technologies set to take off across CGIAR
08.12.21-
Big data
New and more accessible digital phenotyping technologies and methods can help breeding programs coll…
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Less water for better crops
12.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In India, nearly one-sixth of groundwater reserves has been overexploited and almost one-fifth of th…
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Nitrogen-efficient wheats can provide more food with fewer greenhouse gas emissions, new study shows
01.09.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
An international collaboration has discovered and transferred to elite wheat varieties a wild-grass …
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New CIMMYT maize hybrids available from Latin America breeding program
26.08.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of elite,…
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Seed giants must collaborate or be dwarfed by threat of climate change
17.08.21-
Environmental health
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vast inequalities when it comes to food security. But there…
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When it comes to maize variety choices, can farmers have it all?
13.08.21Smallholder farmers are often torn between maize seed varieties that have multiple desirable traits.…
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Preventing and protecting against wheat blast
10.08.21-
Big data
Every year, the spores of the wheat blast fungus lie in wait on farms in…
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Can you help shape the future of plant disease detection?
09.08.21-
Big data
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are increasingly being applied across a diver…
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New solutions for chopping fodder
03.08.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is a laborious and time-consuming process: chopping plant matter by hand to feed to…
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Genome-wide association study puts tan spot-resistant genes in the spotlight
29.07.21Tan spot disease, caused by the fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, may be less well-known than oth…
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Protecting plants will protect people and the planet
27.07.21-
Food security
Understanding the relationship between climate change and plant health is key to conserving biodiv…
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An example of best practice
23.07.21-
Environmental health
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is contributing to make Mexico’s agr…
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CIMMYT announces new Director General ad interim
16.07.21Today the Board of Trustees of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) announc…
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Waging war against the fall armyworm
07.07.21-
Food security
The fall armyworm is an invasive pest that eats more than 80 different crops, but…
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