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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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On-farm nitrogen management practices have global reverberations
10.04.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
An international team of scientists has strengthened our understanding of how better fertilizer mana…
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World Health Day 2021
07.04.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Health has certainly been in the spotlight over the past year. And how could it…
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Nepal launches digital soil map
07.04.21-
Big data
A new digital soil map for Nepal provides access to location-specific information on soil properties…
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Revisiting the inverse size-productivity relationship
07.04.21-
Big data
Quantifying agricultural productivity relies on measures of crop production and land area. Those mea…
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Investment in maize for Africa pays off
30.03.21-
Food security
Between 1995-2015, nearly 60% of all maize varieties released in 18 African countries were CGIAR-rel…
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How do we sustainably manage transboundary diseases and crop pests?
25.03.21-
Environmental health
In our hyper-connected world, it should come as no surprise that recent years have shown…
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What is nixtamalization?
23.03.21-
Nutrition
For centuries, people across Mexico and Central America have been using a traditional method, known…
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CIMMYT to dedicate historic wheat experimental station to Sanjaya Rajaram
18.03.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) will rename one of its most historic…
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A knowledge revolution
12.03.21The key to transforming food production systems globally lies in knowledge management processes, acc…
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Power steering
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Protected from the harsh midday sun with a hat, Pramila Mondal pushes behind the roaring…
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Consider the seed
09.03.21The conservation of plant genetic diversity through germplasm conservation is a key component of glo…
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The transformative value of maize
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The state of Odisha, in the east of India, ranks sixth in rice production in…
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Bill Gates highlights CIMMYT’s innovation in latest climate book
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Global thought leader, philanthropist and one of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Cente…
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Groundwater depletion in India could reduce winter cropped acreage significantly in years ahead
24.02.21-
Environmental health
India is the world’s second-largest producer of wheat and rice and is home to more…
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Drought-tolerant maize project pioneers a winning strategy for a world facing climate change
24.02.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Since the 1980s, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International…
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Five big steps toward wheat self-sufficiency in Pakistan
23.02.21Wheat is not just an essential part of the Pakistani diet, but also absolutely critical…
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First complete cytological characterization of the 2NvS translocation
23.02.21As scientists study and learn more about the complicated genetic makeup of the wheat genome,…
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Q&A: A decade of improved and climate-smart maize through collaborative research and innovation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The food security and livelihoods of smallholder farming families in sub-Saharan Africa depend on ma…
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