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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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New pest identified in West and Central Africa!
22.05.18-
Food security
A second armyworm from the Americas introduced into tropical Africa A new pest—southern armyworm, …
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Launching the Millet Song – 'To Gain'!
22.05.18-
Food security
A good idea needs strong messages and inspiring champions. The Smart Food initiative has been…
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Excellence and Innovation in Sweetpotato: Communication for Change Award
18.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative has announced that the ‘Excellence and Innovatio…
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Helping Vietnam transform its rice sector through sustainable rice production practices
18.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI works with key partners in boosting Vietnam’s rice industry through the “Vietnam Sustainabl…
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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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Scientists meet to tackle challenges facing root, tuber and banana seed systems
16.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Have you ever wondered what the potatoes, cassava, bananas and sweetpotatoes you eat are grown…
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CIMMYT Board of Trustees: Out of the Boardroom and into the field
16.05.18-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)’s Board of Trustees visits the Cente…
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2018 GFPR Rome launch: How open trade impacts global nutrition
16.05.18-
Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR “We are not dealing with [just] hunger anymore … we have a…
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Towards greater genetic gains in rice based agri-food systems in South Asia and Africa
16.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
On a mission to make Asia and sub-Saharan Africa more food secure, IRRI’s Stress-Tolerant Rice…
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Bangladesh Government honors former IRRI Agronomist Dr. Md. M Abdul Mazid for contributions to Bangladeshi food security
16.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dhaka, Bangladesh—25 March 2018—The government presented the “Swadhinata Padak 2018” award t…
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Canadian perspectives on the 2018 GFPR: Building women’s empowerment and food security
15.05.18-
Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR “To achieve gender equality, we need to address social and economic power…
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IFAD conference: Can development really succeed if rural inequalities are rising?
14.05.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY HAZEL MALAPIT “Do policies to reduce rural poverty also reduce rural inequality? Should we…
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STRASA’s innovative approach to faster adoption of modern rice varieties and technologies
13.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developing new climate-resilient rice varieties and technologies is simply not enough to mitigate th…
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2018 Global Report on Food Crises shows rising food insecurity, need to build resilience
11.05.18-
Food security
BY SARA GUSTAFSON In 2017, an estimated 124 million people faced crisis-level food insecurity or…
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IRRI shares Rice Crop Manager experience during the 10th ICT4D Conference
11.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Through partnership with national research partners, IRRI applies sustainable global solutions to lo…
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Planning workshop prepares researchers to scale out agricultural innovations
10.05.18-
Food security
Representatives of three teams whose proposals were successfully awarded funds from the CGIAR Resear…
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IRRI strengthens ties with DLG to boost farm mechanization in Myanmar
10.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI, through the Closing the Rice Yield Gap Project (CORIGAP-PRO) and and in partnership with…
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IndiaSpend.com: Even Without India’s Water Crisis, Doubling Farmers’ Income In 5 Years Impossible
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Currently a senior fellow at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Anand, Shah helm…
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