News
Featured news
-
CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program09.07.25-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
-
Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
Read more -
-
World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
Read more -
Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
Read more -
Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
Read more -
AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
Read more -
-
Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
Read more
Filters
-
YAS hosts Dutch food and nutrition team
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24The Youth in Agribusiness: Enabling scaling of innovative technologies for sustainable food solution…
Read more -
EAFF AICCRA launches collaborative call for farmer-led climate adaptation stories
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24The Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) and Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research f…
Read more -
IITA trains stakeholders on the power of molecular markers in banana breeding and seed systems
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24Genetic purity is one of the utmost requirements for quality seeds. In bananas, the penalty…
Read more -
IITA-CGIAR open doors of collaboration to CIPESS delegates
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24A delegation from the Center for Innovation in Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards (CIPE…
Read more -
Unlocking agricultural potential: IFC and IITA’s response to industrial agricultural transformation
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24Nigeria has faced a distressing trend in cassava and soybean production within the subsistence farmi…
Read more -
Exchange program empowers young entrepreneurs from the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24In line with the mandate of the PICAGL integrated agricultural growth project in the Grand-Lakes…
Read more -
IITA Gender Science Network (GSN): advancing gender, youth, and social inclusion research in Africa’s agriculture
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24IITA–CGIAR is dedicated to advancing gender, youth, and social inclusion agricultural research in…
Read more -
Conference tackles postharvest loss and food safety in Nigeria
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)06.05.24The Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), under the leadership of Professor Lateef S…
Read more -
KALRO and IRRI organize Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, sharing improved rice varieties and training farmers on climate-smart agronomy
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)06.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
KALRO and IRRI jointly held a Farmers’ Field Day at Siaya County, Kenya where they…
Read more -
-
Breeding rice for salinity tolerance and salt-affected soils in Africa: A review
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)06.05.24-
Adaptation
Soil salinity is one of the most severe and common abiotic stresses affecting Africa’s rice…
Read more -
-
Consortium to Launch Fertilizer and Soil Health Hub for West Africa and the Sahel at the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health (AFSH) Summit
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)05.05.24The Fertilizer and Soil Health Hub for West Africa and the Sahel will officially launch…
Read more -
Avert, avoid, minimize: CGIAR research well-positioned to inform loss and damage negotiations in critical year
CGIAR Climate Impact Platform03.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Given the glacial progress of climate action to date, it is now clear that even…
Read more -
-
ICRISAT and Plantix Celebrate a Decade of Collaboration
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)03.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Plantix app impacts over 30 million smallholder farmers Through the seamless integration of technolo…
Read more -
-
MARD, Can Tho City, and IRRI launch model farms for sustainable rice production
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)03.05.24-
Food security
Department of Crop Production-Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (DCP-MARD), Department o…
Read more -
-
IRRI and MARD launch technical guidelines and manual for sustainable rice production
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)03.05.24-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Crop Production (DCP) - Minis…
Read more -
-
Nairobi ignites for the Consultation Workshop of the AgriTech4Kenya Innovation Challenge 2024
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)03.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nairobi (Kenya), 16 April 2024 – Organized by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT…
Read more -
-
Water Productivity Atlas: Closing key gaps in assessment metrics to enhance cross-sector benefits
CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains03.05.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Upali A. Amarasinghe, Madhusha Perera, Alok Sikka, Rabindra K. Panda, Arjamadutta Sarangi, Jonath…
Read more -
-
Digital twins
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)03.05.24A technology pioneered in space exploration is now being used to manage product life cycles,…
Read more