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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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Remembering the life and legacy of Sanjaya Rajaram
18.02.21With great sorrow, we report the passing of Sanjaya Rajaram, former Wheat Program director and…
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Classic milpa maize intercrop can help feed communities forgotten by development
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Nutrition
The traditional milpa intercrop — in which maize is grown together with beans, squash, or…
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Lightbulb moments
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Gender equality
The challenges facing our food system are growing, both in size and in complexity. In…
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CGIAR webinar unleashes multidisciplinary approach to climate change and plant health
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Environmental health
Evidence of enormity and immediacy of the challenges climate change poses for life on earth…
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New CIMMYT maize hybrids available from Eastern Africa breeding program
29.01.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of elite,…
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MAIZE delivers “valuable solutions” for critical needs, according to an external review
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Food security
The CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) “uniquely fills a gap at the global and…
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Fast-tracked adoption of second-generation resistant maize varieties key to managing maize lethal necrosis in Africa
19.01.21Scientists are calling for accelerated adoption of new hybrid maize varieties with resistance to mai…
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Digital nutrient management tool reduces emissions, improves crop yields and boosts farmers’ profits
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
An international team of scientists, led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CI…
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FFAR grant develops climate-resilient wheat
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Wheat constitutes 20% of all calories and protein consumed, making it a cornerstone of the…
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Press Release: FFAR Grant Develops Climate-Resilient Wheat
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Food security
FFAR + CIMMYT NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Brian Oakes, FFAR: 202-604-5756, boakes@founda…
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Unleashing the potential of plant health
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The UN has designated 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health. CGIAR Centers have…
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Taking stock of value chain development
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Food security
In 1967 Albert O. Hirschman, the pioneering development economist, published Development Projects Ob…
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Solving South Asia’s sustainability issues will require a systems approach to crop management
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research by an international team of scientists, including scientists from the International Mai…
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Announcing CIMMYT-derived fall armyworm tolerant elite maize hybrids for eastern and southern Africa
23.12.20-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is pleased to announce the successful …
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Delivering improved maize seed against all odds
21.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As one of the pioneer homegrown seed companies in Uganda, Farm Inputs Care Centre (FICA)…
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Breaking Ground: Gokul Paudel finds the best on-farm practices for South Asia
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Gokul Paudel is an agricultural economist working to streamline farming practices in South Asia. He…
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Solving South Asia’s sustainability issues will require a systems approach to crop management
18.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research by an international team of scientists, including scientists from the International Mai…
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No greater challenge
17.12.20-
Food security
Amidst the transition to One CGIAR and COVID-19 lockdowns, the world’s leading maize and wheat…
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