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Four Essential Podcasts Featuring Dr. Ismahane Elouafi: Science, Systems, and the Future of Food
29.04.25In an era marked by mounting crises—climate extremes, deepening inequality, and growing food insec…
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The Road to Ending Malnutrition: How the Paris N4G Summit Sparked a Global Call to Action
17.04.25The Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit brought global leaders and organizations together in a…
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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Consolidated efforts to modernize crop improvement in Ghana
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A Regional Coordinated Trial (RCT) is helping Cowpea Improvement Program in Ghana, thanks to Acceler…
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Spotlight on crop diversity as ICRISAT’s Genebank holds inaugural field day
11.11.19-
Environmental health
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Cutting across disciplines of crop research, scientists gathered at ICRISAT to observe and evaluate …
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Modernizing NARS crop breeding programs for improved genetic gains in 14 countries
01.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A course designed to modernize National Agricultural Research System (NARS) breeding programs for im…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
18.10.19-
Big data
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Food security
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
18.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel s…
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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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Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were…
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Steering the seed revolving fund initiative to meet growing farmers’ demand for certified seed
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Health
Adoption of new varieties can never be successful until efficient seed delivery systems are in…
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An in-depth look at ICRISAT’s engagement in West Africa
27.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Governing Board meeting in Senegal: The strategic plan for 2020 and beyond As members of…
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Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis
23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researc…
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Genomics delivers ‘super chickpea’ in record time
20.09.19-
Nutrition
Two improved varieties developed through genomics-assisted breeding are headed for Indian farms Indi…
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Forage sorghum hybrid hailed as a landmark cultivar in India
13.09.19-
Food security
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Health
A new sorghum hybrid developed using ICRISAT breeding material was recently given special recognitio…
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Farmers’ demand for labor-friendly chickpea bears fruit: 2 more machine-harvestable varieties released in India
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
For the first time, the Central Varietal Release Committee (CVRC) of India has released two…
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12 years of research on Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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