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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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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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Researchers look deep under the banana’s skin
05.09.19-
Food security
The very thing that makes bananas so easy to eat – they don’t have seeds…
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Food policies for healthier diets
05.09.19-
Health
Programs for improving diets often focus on demand, providing incentives to groups of consumers. How…
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Why the first thousand days matter most
04.09.19-
Nutrition
India’s National Nutrition Mission, or POSHAN Abhiyaan, recognizes the multisectoral nature of th…
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Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
03.09.19-
Nutrition
Supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture through neglected and underutilized species is a new ope…
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Will genetic engineering contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
03.09.19-
Food security
Genetic engineering (GE)—the introduction or change of DNA, RNA or proteins by human manipulation …
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CGIAR at AGRF 2019
03.09.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), considered to be the world’s most important forum for…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
03.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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Can boosting yields slow the global palm oil expansion and ease its environmental impacts?
26.08.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Over the past two decades, global palm oil production has increased rapidly to meet rising…
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World Water Week 2019
26.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Happy World Water Week! Join us this week as we discuss innovative water solutions for…
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Reuters.com: Water pollution an ‘invisible threat’ to global goals, economists warn
23.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
World Bank report warns of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, economies,…
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Independent.co.uk: World health chiefs call for more studies on microplastics in drinking water
22.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Research gap must be filled but meanwhile governments and businesses must urgently reduce plastic pr…
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To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system
21.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is…
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How climate change will impact agricultural productivity in Central America and the Andean Region
19.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change poses a significant global threat to food security and nutrition, largely through its…
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AsiaTimes.com: The developing world’s water crisis has arrived
19.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
A study across 15 cities in South Asia, Africa and South America shows that water…
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IndiaTimes.com: Can a single tribunal resolve water disputes between states?
19.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Shifting monsoon patterns and drying catchment areas in India’s river basins, of which there are…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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