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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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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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IITA and World Bank delegates address deforestation challenges
27.11.23Developing countries, including Nigeria, are facing huge deforestation, destroying the biodiversity …
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Transferring aflatoxin biocontrol experiences to partners from Mali, Niger, and Pakistan
27.11.23Supported by funding from the United States Department of Agriculture – Foreign Agricultural Servi…
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Establishing a fertilizer and soil health center to advance regional agricultural research
27.11.23As part of IITA–CGIAR‘s ongoing research activities, a team comprising members from various res…
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IITA brokers new partnership deal with Sasakawa Africa Association
27.11.23The President of Sasakawa Africa Association (SSA), Makoto Kitanaka, accompanied by Sasakawa Niger…
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Engaging in regional dialogue to support transboundary water cooperation in Southern Africa
27.11.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Transboundary river basins extend across international boundaries and are shared by two or more stat…
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Nutrient recycling stakeholder engagement for sustainable and resilient agricultural production in DRC
27.11.23The densely populated city of Bukavu faces increasing environmental decay, while the surrounding rur…
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Inaugural class of CRISPR technology graduates poised to shape the future of agriculture
27.11.23As the world’s foremost experts unite in their efforts to combat food insecurity and malnutrition,…
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Supporting the next generation of Africa’s scientists
27.11.23Fourteen-year-old Michelle Atawa Mensah was declared winner of the 2023 Young Scientist Award at the…
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Venture-Out Events: Behind the Venture Studio Model with Wageningen’s StartLife
27.11.23What challenges do scientists face in bringing their innovations to market? The unique nature of…
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A Rainy Community Success: The Observer Networks in Choluteca and El Paraíso, Honduras: What began as a funded development project has grown into a network of passionate rain observers
27.11.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In many parts of the world, weather forecasting is a valuable resource, whether for farmers…
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Modelling of antibiotic resistance in aquatic systems: a useful tool to protect human and ecosystem health
26.11.23-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
Antibiotic resistance in aquatic systems puts the health of people and animals at risk from…
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Press Release: ISF and CGIAR forge partnership to improve farmers’ access to quality seed and innovation
25.11.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The two global organizations sign a 5-year cooperation for activities centered on seed systems to…
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Demo Day “Sustainable Cacao Innovation Challenge”
25.11.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Sustainable Cacao Innovation Challenge was launched in August 2023 to provide knowledge and oppo…
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From emissions to solutions: Caquetá's path to a greener future
24.11.23-
Mitigation
By Martha Vanegas Cubillos Nestled in the heart of Colombia lies a place of…
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Mitigate+ at COP28: Let’s talk about non-market approaches, youth in climate action, social equality in low-emission food system development and more!
24.11.23-
Mitigation
Progress on implementing the work program on non-market approaches will comprise a topic that will…
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Re-strengthening coordination and engagement platform for evidence-based policy research in Lao PDR
24.11.23Lao national policy researchers, international research partners, and in-country stakeholders from d…
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Annual Report 2022 launched
24.11.23The year 2022 offered a glimpse into a future of heightening pressures on water security.…
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Cultivating science-based solutions at scale: The pledge of the Ethiopian Extension Service on fostering the transition from blanket to tailored fertilizer recommendations for smallholder farmers
24.11.23To enhance wheat production and productivity, the Ethiopian Extension Service, with the support of t…
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