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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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'Supermarketization,' food environments, and the urban poor
23.01.20-
Food security
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Health
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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New project strengthens capacity to fight fall armyworm in Bangladesh
22.01.20-
Food security
Hundreds of agricultural professionals in Bangladesh were trained in the latest fall armyworm manage…
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As policy makers call for building capacity for food system transformation, who is listening?
21.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Since its emergence in the last few years as a leading paradigm, food system transformation…
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Harnessing the power of metabolomics to speed and improve breeding
20.01.20-
Food security
Plants produce thousands of smallish chemical compounds known as metabolites. Like a DNA fingerprint…
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What changes in temperature mean for Africa’s tsetse fly
20.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Tsetse flies can pass on African sleeping sickness (photo credit: Shutterstock). Elisha Bayode Are, …
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Equity in agriculture-nutrition-health research: What have we been researching and what are the gaps?
19.01.20-
Nutrition
To understand what is needed in tackling different aspects of inequity in agriculture for better…
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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years
17.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of…
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Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers
16.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in Africa south of the Sahara are generally low, in large part because…
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IFPRI short video contest: Planting my path in Nepalese agriculture
16.01.20-
Food security
Second in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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The meat wars: A backlash is occurring on the backlash to meat dietary recommendations published late last year
16.01.20-
Nutrition
Roy Lichenstein, Standing Rib (via Wikiart). On 19 Nov 2019, guidelines were published in the…
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Study calls for better understanding of fertilizer prices faced by African smallholder farmers
15.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa are generally low. This is in large part because of…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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IFPRI short video contest: School garden and healthy cooking program targets the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico
14.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
irst in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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National and sub-national workshops, Mbale, Uganda
14.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
A venue in Mbale, Eastern Uganda was selected to host the InPaC-S national workshop. It…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Food security
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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First MSc students complete A4NH-supported work on food systems for healthier diets in Ethiopia
13.01.20-
Food security
To build capacity and engagement among young researchers in Ethiopia, the Food Systems for Healthier…
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The promise and challenges of India’s Direct Benefit Transfer agricultural subsidies
13.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s rapidly-transforming economy, and one of the government’s…
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Choosing between supermarkets and wet markets
13.01.20-
Food security
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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