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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
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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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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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ICRISAT Wins Prestigious UNDP Mahatma Award 2023 for Work in Bundelkhand, India
30.09.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT clinched the 'UNDP Mahatma Award for Biodiversity' for its remarkable contributions to human…
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How remote sensing can track adaptation to climate change, from the farm to the global level
29.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT and the University of Galway have developed a method…
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In Kenya’s Nandi county, stakeholders jointly reflect on a theory of change for low-emission food systems transformation
29.09.23-
Mitigation
By Thomas Falk, Kibet Walter and Birgit Habermann Food system transformation requires efforts from d…
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Improved cassava varieties are becoming a key ingredient in global food security
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Little known in most highly developed countries, the root vegetable cassava has been largely ignored…
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Political economy considerations for transforming food systems: A new book explores pathways to progress
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Food security
The current state of the global food system is increasingly being acknowledged as unsustainable, wit…
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New study confirms efficacy of low-cost interventions in reducing pork contamination in Vietnam
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
Researchers in Vietnam have provided evidence of the potential of low-cost interventions in reducing…
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Integrating herd health for improved pig production in Uganda’s central region
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Animal Productivity is testing an integrated herd health package…
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In Memoriam: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Visionary Agriculture Scientist and ICRISAT Co-Founder, Professor MS Swaminathan
29.09.23As we come to terms with the profound loss of Professor MS Swaminathan, we find…
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ASEAN-CGIAR Regional Program receives additional A$ 1 Million Australia funding
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Australian Government has announced additional funding of A$ 1 Million to the ASEAN-CGIAR Innova…
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Former IRRI Director General M.S. Swaminathan passes away in India
29.09.23by Gene Hettel Two future World Food Prize Laureates, Dr. Swaminathan (1987) and Gurdev Khush…
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Interview: IFPRI's Rob Vos on the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste Reduction
28.09.23Food loss and waste is caused by many factors, including inefficient production and supply chains,…
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Women are Key to Seed Sector Success in Africa
28.09.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
According to World Bank statistics, the female share of labor in crop production across Ethiopia,…
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Regional Food Safety Experts Call for Collaborative Approaches to Transforming Food Safety in African Wet Markets
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Food security
Food safety experts from African countries from August 29 - September 2 gathered at the…
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Digital Transformations in Agriculture: A Conversation with CGIAR's Prof. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda and Dr. Khuloud Odeh
27.09.23Amidst an ever-evolving technological landscape, a question emerges: how can the vast potential of t…
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Milking it: boosting and professionalizing Kenya’s informal dairy sector
27.09.23-
Food security
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Nutrition
On the outskirts of Kenya’s Rift Valley town of Eldoret, many locals make money by…
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Testing the climate adaptation pioneer approach in Colombia
27.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the CGIAR Livestock and Climate Initiative, we're extending the Pioneers of Adaptation approach t…
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Optimizing fertilizer use to improve rice production in Indonesia, explored by IRRI and Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture
27.09.23-
Food security
(BOGOR, Indonesia, 19 September) - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is committed to …
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Increasing Kenya’s food, land and water policy coherence through coordination and collaboration
26.09.23-
Environmental health
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
On 15 August 2023, the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS) hosted the…
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