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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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Malian farmer sets an example as a successful seed producer
10.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer field schools in Mali are not only training local farmers in best practices for…
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Africa is facing a food crisis due to COVID-19. These seeds could help prevent it.
06.07.20-
Food security
Photo: Pearl millet harvest from a field in Mali. Photo: Agathe Diama, ICRISAT "Seed demand…
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New highly productive sorghum varieties released
06.07.20Photo: Farmers like Elinati Mbewe from Dedza will see their sorghum productivity increase, as a…
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We have talented farmers!
06.07.20Photo: Oumar Koné took advantage of USAID funded training in microdosing to create his own…
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New highly productive sorghum varieties released
03.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
Three improved sorghum varieties with a yield potential of approximately 4 tons per hectare and…
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Secret to on-off fertility discovered in pigeonpea
26.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
New study reveals how in some lines male sterility can be reversed to produce hybrids…
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Government and research bodies expand seeds support to over 10,000 Nigerian smallholders to shield agriculture from COVID-19
22.06.20Farmers in 13 states of Nigeria will receive improved seeds of sorghum, pearl millet, cowpea…
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Does the smallholder farmer have access to quality inputs?
22.06.20With the onset of kharif (monsoon) in the southern states of India, the majority of…
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Food systems need urgent overhaul to combat desertification
19.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Scientists, policymakers, farmers and consumers all need to collaborate to mainstream nutritious and…
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How dryland crops are helping Telangana’s tribal households meet nutritional requirements during lockdown
08.06.20-
Health
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Nutrition
To ensure nutrition sufficiency in children, pregnant women and lactating mothers of tribal communit…
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Post-Covid agri reforms: Odisha could be frontrunner
08.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Representational image for Indian agriculture (related op-ed) | Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloo…
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New partnership inked with AGRA to boost improved technology uptake in Africa’s agriculture
05.06.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT-led AVISA project is partnering with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)…
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Measuring farm households’ vulnerability and resilience to climate shocks now possible, new research shows
05.06.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Measurement can improve interventions and help smallholder farmers adapt better A household’s vuln…
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Reviving the farm economy
01.06.20-
Food security
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The return of migrant workers to their villages offers an opportunity to give agribusiness a…
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A strategic guide: Working towards food security in the drylands, through COVID-19 and beyond
29.05.20-
Food security
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Health
ICRISAT is well positioned to significantly contribute to efforts towards restoring food security in…
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What African farmers and processors say about the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns
29.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Maintaining the dialog with the farming community and industry Farmers and other key stakeholders in…
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Flipping the script on rainfall data
29.05.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the last few hours before Covid-19 locked CGIAR centers staff into remote work, a…
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Africa’s most vulnerable are called to bear the brunt of a pandemic
27.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Securing farming communities through and after COVID-19 is a priority One of world’s harshest terr…
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