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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Double harvest for half the effort
21.08.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Peter Mwangofi is a pigeonpea farmer from Karonga district in Malawi. He relies on the…
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Soil-borne pathogen new to chickpea growing regions in India detected
14.08.20-
Food security
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Health
A soil-borne pathogen, new to chickpea growing regions in India, was detected during a real-time…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
14.08.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A superior export-quality confectionery groundnut variety that comes with a higher benefit-cost rati…
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Legumes grow money: Success script of seed systems in Malawi
14.08.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
An estimated US$ 40 million per annum, up from US$ 17 million in 2009, was…
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Multi-national company nurtures a Climate-Smart Village, facilitates return of migrant farmers
14.08.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Plummeting groundwater levels and adverse rainfall patterns forced farmers in Buchinelli village in …
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Launch of the ICRISAT Annual Report 2019
07.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
2019 was a year of many firsts… And we are glad to have rolled out…
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Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet varieties
07.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
High-yielding chickpea and finger millet varieties with yield potential of up to 3 tons per…
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Harvesting rains to grow fruit, vegetables and improved crops at watershed learning sites in India
07.08.20-
Gender equality
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Health
This cropping season, observing all safety measures amidst the COVID pandemic, more than a 1,000…
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New ICRISAT groundnut varieties to be available from the next season
07.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two new groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content developed by ICRISAT in association with…
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Drought-prone landscape turns green
31.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Kalahandi district in Odisha, India, has suffered from repeated droughts and famines for several dec…
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Enabling Niger farmers to turn seed producers
31.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
An intensive training workshop for aspiring seed producers in Niger equipped them with necessary kno…
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New project aims to improve food and nutritional security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A recently launched project, with a focus on iron- and zinc-fortified hybrids and open-pollinated va…
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Adding value to smallholder farming in Malawi
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder farmers in Malawi, with support from a seed development project and government initiativ…
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Better dietary options for healthier children
23.07.20-
Health
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Nutrition
In rural Malawi, over 16,000 people, including young children, have benefited from ‘Care Groups’…
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Soil health key priority for better livelihoods of Odisha farmers
23.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Under an extensive soil health mapping program in Odisha state, India, over 40,200 soil samples…
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New groundnut variety with high oil, high pod yields released in central India
20.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Photo: Dr Shrikant L Sawargonkar, IGKV, observing state multilocation trials in Raipur (2019). ICRIS…
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New groundnut variety with high oil, high pod yields released in Central India
17.07.20-
Food security
A new groundnut variety, with 28% higher yields of oil and pods compared to zonal…
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Low-cost drought-proofing strategies help farmers in southern India
15.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Collaborative project with Power Grid Corp of India has significant scale-out potential Technologies…
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