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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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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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In the Spotlight: Faye Aborina Siota
10.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Faye Aborina Siota is a senior research analyst at WorldFish in the Solomon Islands. Her…
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Asia's 'blue capital' can help alleviate hunger and poverty
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An irony of the current global economic system is that it is depleting the very…
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Opportunities for all: How the Healthy Landscapes project is improving rural livelihoods in Sri Lanka
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It’s dinner time in the Gamage household and Sherangi, a talented home cook, has prepared…
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Collaboration between IRRI, Nong Lam University, and JICA to reduce postharvest losses and increase rice quality in Africa
20.01.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Nong Lam University, and Japan International Coope…
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Reaching, Benefitting, and Empowering Women – Meet Endrina, Fanny, Biria, and Edith
18.01.23-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The engagement of women and other vulnerable people to provide equitable improvements in health and…
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Tackling food insecurity & climate change risks in East Africa through climate finance: A multi-pronged approach
16.01.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Photo: Evan Girvetz of the CGIAR Climate Resilience Initiative speaks at COP 27 in Egypt…
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CIP and IRRI collaborate on CGIAR Seed Equal Initiative workshop for potato crops in Africa
16.01.23-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Initiative Seed Equal- Delivering Genetic Gains to Farmers Fields held a workshop in…
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Rethinking Food Markets Initiative: Stakeholders Workshop in Nigeria
03.01.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Omobolanle Onilogbo The CGIAR Initiative on 'Rethinking Food Markets1 led by the International Fo…
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Can innovations in logistics and financial services benefit actors throughout agricultural value chains?
30.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kate Ambler, Jeff Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Eduardo Maruyama Catalyzed by changes to…
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In Tajikistan, women contribute significantly to agriculture, but does agricultural work contribute significantly to women’s agency?
23.12.22-
Food security
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tajikistan is among the lowest-income countries in Central Asia and the world, and agriculture plays…
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Digital innovation in water quality monitoring: Fishing for solutions
23.12.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Author: Patience Mukuyu (IWMI) Deteriorating water quality is a global challenge, more so in surface…
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A reluctant farmer changes the fortune of his inherited land
22.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the sultry spring-summer heat of Bihar, India, the landscape is yellow with wheat grains…
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Strengthening collaboration for the benefit of India’s farmers
20.12.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With almost 18 percent of the world’s population but less than 1.5 percent of its…
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CGIAR launches Digital Agriculture diploma to transform agri-food systems and rural communities in Latin America and the Caribbean
20.12.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Research Initiatives on Digital Innovation and AgriLAC Resiliente have collaborated with s…
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Thermal imaging can help farmers optimize water use
14.12.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture uses 70% of the world’s fresh water supplies and farmer demand for water will…
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Five ways satellite images, remote sensing and smartphones are combining to transform agriculture
05.12.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
From satellites launched into low orbit, to smartphones spreading across the developing world, each …
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Sweetpotato farmers from Busoga region in Uganda form a cooperative for sustainable production
28.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sweetpotato farmers have typically sourced planting materials from their own previous seasons’ gar…
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Del microscopio a la huerta: La investigación científica y su contribución a la agricultura familiar y al emprendimiento rural
22.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Por Joaquín Lozano, Director para América Latina y el Caribe, CGIAR Este texto refleja algunos…
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