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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Ojanji Wandera16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Achieving agricultural breakthrough: A deep dive into seven technological areas
CGIAR09.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The CGIAR Achieving Agricultural Breakthrough: A Deep Dive into Seven Technological Areas Report int…
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Transforming food, land, and water systems for resilience through innovative multi-level governance and local climate action
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience09.12.23-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Giriraj Amarnath and Ana Maria Loboguerrero Rodriguez, CGIAR Research Initiative on Climate Resil…
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Unlocking opportunities of planet-friendly school meals
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY AULO GELLI AND MARIE RUEL OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 This post is part of…
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Discovering the potential of multispectral UAV and satellite sensors in detecting wheat rust in Ethiopia
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.12.23-
Big data
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Latest advances in sensor technology and data processing allow early detection, mapping and monitori…
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New diagnostic framework makes integrated water storage a reality
CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains08.12.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
In 2010, water levels at Lake Kariba were so high that the Kariba Dam had…
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World Bank commits $100 million to ‘climate-smart’ agriculture in Africa at COP28
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)08.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Through the AICCRA project, scientists, and researchers from across CGIAR— the world’s largest p…
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Q&A with ERG Member Professor Guy M Poppy, on His Participation in the Launch of a New UK-CGIAR Centre for Collaboration and Innovation in Science and Technology
Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service08.12.23We caught up with Professor Guy Poppy, member of the IAES Evaluation Reference Group, to shed…
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Enhancing Agricultural Practices: Insights from the Impact of AICCRA’s Kenya Agri Hackathon on Post-Harvest Losses
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)08.12.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Post-harvest losses pose a significant challenge to agriculture in Kenya, with statistics revealing …
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Livestock and Climate community facilitator, Paulina Ngurumwa, takes pastoralist concerns to the World Food Prize
CGIAR Initiative on Livestock and Climate08.12.23-
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Gender equality
Paulina Peter Ngurumwa, a community facilitator affiliated with the International Livestock Research…
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What’s Cooking at COP28: Assessing novel alternatives to animal-sourced foods
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)08.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Today’s consumers have access to increasingly more novel meat and dairy alternatives. These foods,…
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A new rapid assessment tool for food security risks posed by global price shocks
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.12.23-
Food security
BY NICHOLAS MINOT AND ROB VOS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 International food commodity prices have…
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HarvestPlus Transforming Lives by Addressing Climate Change, Gender Inequality and Nutrition in Bihar
HarvestPlus07.12.23Climate change-induced natural disasters, gender inequality, and malnutrition are interconnected iss…
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Key insights on livestock related GHG emissions in sub-Saharan Africa unveiled at UNGA78 Science Summit
CGIAR Initiative on Livestock and Climate07.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
On 14 September 2023, at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78), Claudia Arndt, senior…
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Integrated Desert Farming - a COP28 Showcase
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)07.12.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Mr. Aly Abousabaa, ICARDA Director General and Regional Director of CWANA, CGIAR, led a visit,…
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IRRI expands rice research collaboration into Central Asia through new partnership with Uzbekistan agriculture ministry
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)07.12.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines, 29 November 2023 ~ A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture of…
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Trust me, I can do this’: examining the essential role enumerators play in enhancing data quality in household surveys
CGIAR Initiative on Livestock and Climate07.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
‘The training in Ethiopia had started when Tigist informed me that two enumerators were pregnant.…
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Raising Social Equity: Indigenous people’s contributions to advancing sustainable agriculture in Kenya
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience07.12.23-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Social inclusion
Kenya’s indigenous peoples are among those most affected by climate impacts. With knowledge attune…
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The potential of roots and tubers as climate-resilient crops in Asian Mega-Deltas
CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas07.12.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
A recent agricultural innovation under the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas highlights the pote…
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