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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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Environmental health
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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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The cereals imperative of future food systems
15.10.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Pioneering research on our three most important cereal grains — maize, rice, and wheat —…
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Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food insecurity hotspots
15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need…
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CGIAR centers push recommendations for CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Nutrition and Diets
15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Placing the Global South front and center Among the critical conversations had at the recently…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
15.10.19-
Food security
The world urgently needs a transformation of the global food system, leading to healthier diets…
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Cassava and Climate Change: Boosting the IQ of a Naturally Climate-Smart Crop
15.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Cassava is hardy root crop consumed by millions of people across Africa—but largely ignored by…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019: Measuring what matters for gender equality
14.10.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
So far, 99 organizations have used the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), an innova…
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Ghanaian farmers can now control Aflatoxin, earn big
14.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A study has identified the best non-toxic strains that can limit aflatoxin contamination in laborato…
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Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets
11.10.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on…
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CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia
10.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Ag…
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Agricultural growth is key to spur Ghana's economic growth
09.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana has been viewed as one of Africa's political and economic success stories, from maintaining…
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Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
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Sustainable livestock systems for sustainable lives
08.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Bread and Eggs. This month, in a new issue of…
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Achieving policy impact with political economy research: frameworks, applications, and lessons learned
07.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Danielle Resnick shares her reflections about the recent "Political economy for improved policy anal…
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Addressing food safety questions along the value chain
07.10.19-
Health
From consumers working back through production, a research new paper, Food safety in low and…
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Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.
07.10.19-
Nutrition
All illustrations by Japanese graphic artist Zenji Funabashi. Just in time to add fuel to…
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India establishes separate ministerial livestock portfolio, a sector outperforming crop agriculture
05.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
All illustrations by Bengali artist Jamini Roy, 1887–1972. ‘The creation of a separate ministeri…
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Make food a priority in land reforms
04.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
While land titles and other reforms in forest-dwelling communities in Indonesia, Uganda and Peru hav…
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Voices from the field: Fighting aflatoxin in Nigeria
04.10.19-
Health
Aflatoxin cause health and economic problems for farmers across Africa. IITA scientist Adebowale Aka…
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