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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
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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
14.05.25<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
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Objectivity in Qualitative Research
06.05.24Qualitative research is often regarded as being less objective, and hence less rigorous, than quanti…
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What does it take to scale an agricultural innovation? Loraine Ronchi talks with Agnes Kalibata
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Getting science innovations out of the labs and into the hands of millions of smallholder…
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Technical staff at African research stations gain crucial trialling and nursery skills, improving continent-wide crop breeding data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ensuring top-notch equipment reaches breeding research stations worldwide is vital, but equally cruc…
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Farmer exchange visits accelerate knowledge co-creation for agroecological transition
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Validation, innovations, and research gaps Authors: Beatrice Adoyo (CIFOR-ICRAF), Hezekiah Korir (II…
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RTB East Africa Germplasm Exchange Laboratory construction commences in Kenya
06.05.24A significant milestone was reached on 25 April in the realm of roots, tubers, and…
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YAS hosts Dutch food and nutrition team
06.05.24The Youth in Agribusiness: Enabling scaling of innovative technologies for sustainable food solution…
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EAFF AICCRA launches collaborative call for farmer-led climate adaptation stories
06.05.24The Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) and Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research f…
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IITA trains stakeholders on the power of molecular markers in banana breeding and seed systems
06.05.24Genetic purity is one of the utmost requirements for quality seeds. In bananas, the penalty…
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IITA-CGIAR open doors of collaboration to CIPESS delegates
06.05.24A delegation from the Center for Innovation in Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards (CIPE…
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Unlocking agricultural potential: IFC and IITA’s response to industrial agricultural transformation
06.05.24Nigeria has faced a distressing trend in cassava and soybean production within the subsistence farmi…
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Exchange program empowers young entrepreneurs from the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda
06.05.24In line with the mandate of the PICAGL integrated agricultural growth project in the Grand-Lakes…
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IITA Gender Science Network (GSN): advancing gender, youth, and social inclusion research in Africa’s agriculture
06.05.24IITA–CGIAR is dedicated to advancing gender, youth, and social inclusion agricultural research in…
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Conference tackles postharvest loss and food safety in Nigeria
06.05.24The Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), under the leadership of Professor Lateef S…
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KALRO and IRRI organize Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, sharing improved rice varieties and training farmers on climate-smart agronomy
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
KALRO and IRRI jointly held a Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, Kenya where they…
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Breeding rice for salinity tolerance and salt-affected soils in Africa: A review
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Adaptation
Soil salinity is one of the most severe and common abiotic stresses affecting Africa’s rice…
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Consortium to Launch Fertilizer and Soil Health Hub for West Africa and the Sahel at the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health (AFSH) Summit
05.05.24The Fertilizer and Soil Health Hub for West Africa and the Sahel will officially launch…
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Avert, avoid, minimize: CGIAR research well-positioned to inform loss and damage negotiations in critical year
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Given the glacial progress of climate action to date, it is now clear that even…
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ICRISAT and Plantix Celebrate a Decade of Collaboration
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Plantix app impacts over 30 million smallholder farmers Through the seamless integration of technolo…
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