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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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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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Towards Climate Transparency: Strategies to Enhance National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
20.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
National inventories of greenhouse gases (GHGs) serve as pivotal tools for assessing a country's cli…
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Scaling Impact: Strengthening and Expanding Farmer-to-Farmer Scaling Networks, Nandi and Bomet Counties, Kenya
20.12.23-
Adaptation
Scaling innovative agricultural solutions is crucial for addressing food security and sustainable de…
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Empresa líder del sector minorista en Colombia le apuesta ganadería sostenible
20.12.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Con la creciente preocupación de los consumidores por el cambio climático, la degradación del med…
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IRRI is leveraging AI to secure food and nutrition security for current and future generations
20.12.23-
Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
Leading technology giants like Amazon and Google are applauding and supporting the research institut…
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Red meat versus alternative proteins. A false debate?
20.12.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
What if the whole debate about animal versus alternative protein was a false debate? What…
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Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) project: Finding more effective ways to deliver vital information and innovation to farmers
19.12.23Finding more effective ways to deliver vital information and innovation to farmers. DLEC’s Impact …
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Forman Lecture: Simón Barquera on tackling obesity and noncommunicable diseases in Mexico
19.12.23BY JENNIFER JOHNSON OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The global prevalence of overweight and obesity has…
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Making Climate Adaptation Work for Everybody: Insights from the Webinar Series
19.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Authors: Peter Laderach and Ibukun Taiwo (CGIAR Focus Climate Security, The Alliance of Bioversity a…
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Sierra Leone Ministry of Finance commits to collaboration with IITA on economic revolution
19.12.23In a recent meeting with the Sierra Leone Minister of Finance, Honorable Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi…
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Collaborative effort targets yam viruses as CSIR-CRI and IITA PROSSIVA join forces in Nigeria
19.12.23In a pioneering move aimed at bolstering Nigeria’s agricultural landscape, the Council for Scient…
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IITA Director General signs MoU with Sierra Leone Minister of Agriculture
19.12.23In a recent high-profile event in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, IITA Director General and C…
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A4IP at COP28: Driving Sustainability in Agri-Food Systems
19.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As a pivotal annual assembly, COPs serve as the primary global multilateral decision-making platform…
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Strengthening Ethiopia’s food systems: SHiFT hosts workshop to design new training program
19.12.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Researchers from the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Tra…
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How is Kenya’s National Fertilizer Subsidy Program working?
18.12.23BY HAILEMARIAM AYALEW, JOSEPH KARUGIA, JOHN OLWANDE, AND CLEMENS BREISINGER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 …
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On the right track but not there yet: From poverty reduction to prosperity in Khatlon Province, Tajikistan
18.12.23BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT, SARAH PECHTL, MOHRU MARDONOVA, AND KAMILJON AKRAMOV OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Taj…
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What do we know about the future of pulses in global and regional agri-food systems?
18.12.23-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in the future, and the body of…
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Usability testing to transform research impact: Lessons from Guatemala
18.12.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Top photo: Usability Test for DQQ in WhatsApp with women from La Puente , Chiquimula.…
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The natural farming model of Andhra Pradesh: A solution for sustainable agriculture in India
18.12.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Shweta Gupta, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI. Sudharsan Malaiappan, IWMI-ITC Project Resear…
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