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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Unique partnership to transform maize breeding and production in Africa
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)26.08.20Scientists part of the Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) and the Maize Lethal Necrosis…
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Lessons for gender in seed systems
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)20.08.20Seed systems are complex and dynamic, involving diverse, interdisciplinary actors. Women play an imp…
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The missing link between maize seeds and trust
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)18.08.20The world population is expected to rise to almost 10 billion by 2050. To feed…
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Alison Bentley to be new Global Wheat Program director
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)13.08.20In November 2020, Alison Bentley will be joining the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Cente…
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Historic wheat research station poised to host cutting-edge research
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)30.07.20It was the site where International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) scientist Norman Bor…
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Work to develop high yielding Striga tolerant maize seed is bearing fruit
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)30.07.20-
Food security
Striga, an invasive parasitic weed with purple-colored flowers, looks striking and harmless. But, be…
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“Better, faster, equitable, sustainable” – wheat research community partners join to kick off new breeding project
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)29.07.20More than 100 scientists, crop breeders, researchers, and representatives from funding and national …
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Supporting smallholder farmers to better combat drought
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers from the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project have been exploring th…
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Targeted fertilizer recommendations improve maize productivity in Ethiopia
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)16.07.20-
Food security
A study on the impact of providing site-specific fertilizer recommendations on fertilizer usage, pro…
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Small is beautiful
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)09.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Can Africa’s smallholder farmers adopt and reap the benefits of farm mechanization? The Farm Mecha…
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Gauging the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on farming communities and agribusinesses in Nepal
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.07.20-
Food security
The agricultural market has been suffering since the government of Nepal imposed a lockdown from…
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When mothers learn from babies
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In Chebvute, Zimbabwe the CIMMYT has established trials to test the effectiveness and productivity o…
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Could coronavirus drive farmers to adopt sustainable practices in India’s breadbasket?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)07.07.20-
Food security
June marks the start of the rice growing season in India’s breadbasket but on the…
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Annual Report 2019 launched
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)01.07.20The year 2019 showed us that while CIMMYT’s work may begin with seeds, our innovations…
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African small-scale mechanization project winds down after strong results
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)24.06.20-
Food security
Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia have embraced small-scale mechanization thanks to an in…
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Reaping the benefits of innovation
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)17.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Post-harvest losses — which can range between 10-20% in major cereals — cause not only…
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Farmers diversify crops in their fields and food on their plates
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)17.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in the Bale area, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, mainly produce wheat and barley. Temam…
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Interdrought 2020 congress proceedings now online
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)09.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Interdrought 2020 congress presents the latest developments to address this global challenge. In…
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