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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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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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CIMMYT researcher receives Heroes Award
02.11.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
Maria Itria Ibba, a scientist at CIMMYT, received the inaugural Heroes Award from the…
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Informal trade in agricultural commodities along the Nepal-India border
02.11.23BY SHALINI GUPTA AND DEVESH ROY OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Nepal and India share a porous…
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Researchers caution that biodiversity benefit-sharing needs a radically new approach
02.11.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
At the 2022 COP-15 meeting, signatories of the Convention on Biological Diversity reached a new…
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Is it worth investing in carbon offset projects?
02.11.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Programs that allow for the trading of carbon credits or offsets aim to reduce or…
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#Weareindigenous: working towards a seat at the table, not just on the sidelines
02.11.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo Kanui,ClimBeR, Nyang’ori Ohenjo, CEMIRIDE, Jeptoo Kibichum, CEMIRIDE, Martina Ma…
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Just launched: The CGIAR User Research Toolkit!
02.11.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The CGIAR Digital Innovation Initiative together with Excellence in Agronomy is launching the uxtool…
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Diversified rice farms with vegetable plots and flower strips are associated with fewer pesticide applications in the Philippines
02.11.23-
Food security
The high use of chemical pesticides at large scales and the co-dependence of technologies, such…
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Launch of Global Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus Community
01.11.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
NEXUS Gains is pleased to announce the launch of the “Global WEF Nexus Community”. This new…
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Scaling nutrient-enriched staple crops with the HarvestPlus program: Reaching 100 million people in 20 years
01.11.23-
Nutrition
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the HarvestPlus program, which is leading a global…
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A shared commitment to food security and youth employment in Mali
01.11.23On 3 October, Mali’s new Minister of Agriculture, Lassine Dembélé, met with IITA–CGIAR Sahel…
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Zero Hunger Project empowers women and differently abled people in Ebonyi State on rice value addition
01.11.23The Zero Hunger Project trained 3,347 farmers, processors, and agripreneurs (including differently a…
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Strengthening Tanzania’s National Extension System through gender and social inclusion in cassava seed systems
01.11.23In Tanzania’s Tabora Region, IITA Gender Research Fellow (Cassava) Millicent Liani organized a cap…
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Zero Hunger Project launches in Togo to boost food and nutrition security
01.11.23The Agricultural Transformation in the Nigerian Federal States and Togolese Regions Towards Achievin…
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IITA-CGIAR emphasizes innovations for women and youths at the 2023 FAO science and innovation forum
01.11.23The role of women and youth in the collective efforts to bolster Africa’s agrifood systems…
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Insect4feed: A sustainable solution for livestock feed
01.11.23On 9 October, the IITA Business Incubation Platform (BIP), with the Dutch government and other…
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Participatory research in Cambodia's Mekong Delta aims to improve climate resilience through crop diversification
01.11.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Under the CGIAR Initiative on Asian-Mega Deltas, a series of learning alliance meetings has been…
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Exploring partnerships to improve Nigeria’s economy
01.11.23As part of IITA–CGIAR efforts to ensure that Africa is food secure, delegates from Raedial Hold…
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Research: Achieving a socially inclusive and sustainable commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania
01.11.23Cassava is sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) second most important staple food crop after maize. It is…
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