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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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Food security
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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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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New research initiative to address challenges facing Ethiopia’s dairy, poultry and small ruminants’ sectors launched
23.06.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
Livestock production is an important sub-sector within Ethiopia’s economy in terms of its contribu…
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New CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems Launched
21.06.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
This global research and development effort will help increase the productivity of mixed farming sys…
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New study reviews strategies to reduce acaricide resistance in ticks in smallholder livestock systems in Africa
15.06.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ticks are a major cause of economic losses in the livestock sector in the tropics…
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New research initiative to address challenges facing Tanzania’s dairy and poultry sectors launched
14.06.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tanzania has some of the largest livestock herds and flocks in Africa, comprising 34 million…
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Launching workshop of new research initiative to address challenges facing Mali’s small ruminant value chain
09.06.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock farming is practiced by at least 80% of the rural population and plays a…
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ILRI marks World Food Safety Day 2022 with a focus on food safety research for better health
07.06.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
To commemorate this year’s World Food Safety Day (7 June) under the theme Safer food,…
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Safer food for everyone: How CGIAR brings food safety research to markets where the health burden is highest
06.06.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
There is no food security without food safety. But every day, billions of people eat…
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Shedding light on African livestock systems' greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate their environmental impact
03.06.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Ruminants play a vital role in the economic and nutritional fabric of sub-Saharan Africa. However,…
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Enhancing livelihood opportunities from buffalo value chains - the focus of the CGIAR animal productivity initiative in Nepal
02.06.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Buffalo cow in Nepal (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) Buffalo are well-suited to Nepal’s lowla…
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New study provides the first detailed report on the occurrence of the tick-borne parasite Babesia bovis in cattle in Kenya
02.06.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
Tick-borne diseases pose a significant threat to smallholder livestock keeping in Kenya and the East…
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Advancing Food Systems Transformation in Kenya
27.05.22In a complicated and uncertain world, identifying strategies for building policy coherence and respo…
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Investigating pathogens in wildlife in Kenya to tackle neglected zoonoses
17.05.22-
Health
Wild animals harbour many pathogens that can infect livestock and people. Because of this, epidemiol…
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The Kenyan dairy and poultry sectors to benefit from a new research initiative
17.05.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
The livestock sector in Kenya is vital to peoples’ livelihoods. Many households depend on the…
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ILRI scientist Delia Grace wins 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for research innovation
05.05.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
We congratulate Delia Grace, professor of food safety systems at the Natural Resources Institute and…
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Risk-based and One Health approaches for improved food safety in Africa
04.05.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
The rapid evolution of global food safety systems in response to population growth, urbanization, cl…
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New research offers insights on bridging the gap between policy and reality in Kenya’s informal milk sector
14.04.22-
Health
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Nutrition
Effective communication and constructive dialogue on inclusive ways forward between policy-makers an…
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New multi-stakeholder platform to promote strategic approaches in climate-smart agriculture in Kenya
06.04.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
One of the biggest challenges in taking effective and sustainable climate action is the lack…
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Experts discuss the impact of climate change on tick-borne pathogens in western, central and eastern Africa
15.03.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Africa is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, impacting the emergence, re-emergence …
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