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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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On a mission to nurture hunger-free drylands
09.10.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The 95th Governing Board meeting, held virtually, affirmed ICRISAT’s commitment to a hunger-free …
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Prof Prabhu Pingali takes the baton as Chair of ICRISAT Governing Board
09.10.20-
Gender equality
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Health
Prof Prabhu Pingali, Founding Director, Tata-Cornell Institute, took charge as ICRISAT Governing Boa…
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En route to improved agronomic literacy
08.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the years of the Nepal's civil war, women in rural villages like Masuriya faced…
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Inside Ethiopia’s agricultural success story
08.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Ethiopia’s rapid economic and agricultural growth over the past two decades i…
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Q&A: How blockchain can create social and environmental impacts
08.10.20-
Big data
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Food security
Blockchain promises to revolutionize the economic system by changing the way we communicate over the…
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G20 agriculture and water ministers set agenda for responsible investments in agrifood systems but fail to agree on climate change language
07.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Agriculture and water ministers from the G20 countries met jointly f…
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Survey: Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
06.10.20-
Food security
Findings from a recent study (Aug 2020) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia suggest that telephone surveys…
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IFPRI mentorship journeys: Developing insights into consumer demand for tilapia in urban Malawi
05.10.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY SANDRA FRÖBE-KALTENBACH AND CYNTHIA KAZEMBE Second of a two-part series on IFPRI Malawi’s Bun…
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Knowledge brokers as a bridge between research and policy
04.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Dan McGonigle joined the UK Civil Service in 2007 as a scientific advisor. In 2015…
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The Telegraph: Let’s not wash our hands of water
02.10.20-
Health
The post-coronavirus recovery will offer a chance to improve water security for the world’s needie…
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A new digital hub to consolidate learnings from global food legume initiatives
02.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
To enable crop researchers and policymakers access information on the three Tropical Legumes project…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: What is conservation agriculture?
01.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Farmers worldwide are increasingly adopting conservation agriculture. In the 2015/2016 season, conse…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19 impacts on African agricultural trade and food security
30.09.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JULIE KURTZ The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a number of African agricultural exports, while…
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Ensuring Delivery of Biofortified Crops and Foods Amid COVID-19 in Nigeria
30.09.20-
Food security
As the global spread of COVID-19 disrupted agricultural value chains in numerous countries, HarvestP…
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Cost and safety of food are major factors influencing adolescents’ food choices in urban Ethiopia
29.09.20-
Food security
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Health
An innovative study by the universities of Addis Ababa and Wageningen and the French National…
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New methods aren’t always silver bullets: Challenges with use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for elasticity estimation
29.09.20-
Food security
BY ALAN DE BRAUW AND SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ How do different types of expenditures relate to households'…
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Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance
29.09.20-
Health
A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020)…
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Wheat blast has made the intercontinental jump to Africa
29.09.20-
Food security
Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time…
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