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The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

BY RICKY ROBERTSON OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 When I was child, back in the late…

Transforming Diets and Livelihoods through Kitchen Gardening in Busia County, Kenya

Nutrition, health & food security

Small scale farming is positively impacting millions of households in Eastern and Southern Africa (E…

Crop Diversity: A Tasty Way for Keeping Our Options Open

CGIAR

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

The Unlocking Climate Solutions: Embracing Nature and Agricultural Heritage event was held at Mindsp…

Turning biodegradable waste, such as food waste, into compost helps to reduce emissions and recover plant nutrients. Photo: Marco Verch, Creative Commons 2.0.

Reducing food waste: How to make it work?

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) emphasizes the critical importance of addressing…

Tools for using the International Rice Genebank to breed for climate-resilient varieties

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

Traditional rice varieties have been critical for developing improved stress-tolerant rice varieties…

Funding this pioneering project in Colombia hailed ‘a very wise decision’ for the German government

CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality

Climate adaptation & mitigation

A project aiming to advance climate change mitigation and peacebuilding in Colombia has received pra…

Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Food security
Gender equality

Launch Event: Guidelines for measuring gender transformative change in the context of food security,…

Crop Diversity: A Tasty Way for Keeping Our Options Open

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Crop diversity is often overlooked in climate discussions, yet it's crucial to adaptation: we need…

Meet the AgriTech4Uzbekistan Finalists

CGIAR

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

22 Innovation Teams and 45 Participants, Driven by the Ambition to Make an Impact in…

Merging High-tech and Ancient Water Management Systems for Global Food Security

CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Today, we face a myriad of water-related challenges, ranging from water scarcity and drought (due…

Agroecology can achieve breakthroughs in the agricultural sector worldwide

24.09.23

Environmental health & biodiversity

The new CGIAR report “Achieving Agricultural Breakthrough: A deep dive into seven technological ar…

Informal trade: Insights from Phansidewa at the India-Bangladesh border

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

22.09.23

BY NISHA TANEJA, SANJANA JOSHI, SANYA DUA, ABUL KAMAR, SUNIL SAROJ, DEVESH ROY, AND MAMATA…

Cherishing crop diversity in a sea of sugarcane: inauguration of Uganda’s newest community seed bank

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

22.09.23

Nutrition, health & food security

Smallholder farmers here are largely immigrants from the West Nile region of Uganda who came…

Going with the flow, or fighting for it?

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

22.09.23

The Letaba River Basin in Southern Africa holds great spiritual significance for indigenous communit…

CIMMYT takes part in the 113th edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Gender equality, youth & social inclusion

CIMMYT scientists, researchers and subject experts participated in the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (Z…

Avanzar2030 workshop: Synthesizing evidence on sustainable agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa

BY ELSA OLIVETTI AND BRIAN MCNAMARA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Food systems in Latin America…

A guiding framework to boost Science and Practice of scaling innovation and three new roles to drive it

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Nutrition, health & food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Scaling innovation is becoming increasingly important in the world of agricultural research for deve…

Feed collection in Tanzania (ILRI/Brigitte L. Maass)

Smallholder farmers in Kongwa District, Tanzania, use the iSAT advisory tool to better manage climate risks