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Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
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Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
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New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
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Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
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Access to genetic analysis accelerates banana breeding in East Africa
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)22.11.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Banana producers face many pests and diseases that affect their crop, such as Panama disease…
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PDAU co-facilitates project development and management training for senior ABUAD staff
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21The IITA Project Development and Administration Unit (PDAU), represented by ’Kayode Awobajo, co…
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Open access: Promoting right and accessible knowledge
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21IITA joined the international community to celebrate Open Access Week from 25 to 29 October, as…
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IITA partners Oyo State government and others to promote agribusiness
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21Under the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA), the Oyo State Government collaborated…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)22.11.21Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by IC…
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Improving groundnut farming with early maturing resilient varieties
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)22.11.21To accelerate the development of improved groundnut varieties, ICRISAT’s groundnut breeding team i…
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Milking the opportunities left behind
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21Youth migration from rural to urban areas is often attributed to a lack of employment…
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IITA among $100,000 Growth Grant finalist for Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced that IITA is among the Growth Grand finali…
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ENABLE-TAAT facilitating youth access to credit through partnerships
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21Budding youth-led enterprises often find it challenging to raise capital. In many cases, such enterp…
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International, multi-stakeholder alliance continue to tackle banana bunchy top disease in Africa
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21Up to 16 African countries have now experienced the banana bunchy top disease (BBTD), caused…
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The future of potatoes in Georgia is youthful business
International Potato Center (CIP)22.11.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Giorgi Khitarishvili started potato farming with his parents when he was five years old, living…
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C. Woermann Nigeria and IITA-BIP collaborate to launch a showroom of yield-improving agricultural tools
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21On 22 October, C. Woermann Nigeria and STIHL Company in Germany partnered with IITA’s Business In…
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ENABLE-TAAT launches demo fields at 12 NYSC orientation camps
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21To provide agribusiness support to youth, ENABLE-TAAT has established agribusiness demonstration far…
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IITA partners with VOWDA to ensure agricultural transformation among women
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21The Voice of Women in the Development of Agriculture (VOWDA), in collaboration with IITA, organized…
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SWEAN project trains women entrepreneurs in Zaria and Ibadan
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21Support Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood sector in Nigeria (SWEAN) has concluded the training …
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Nigerian government grants internet and community radio licenses to IITA
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved two radio licenses for IITA—an Internet radio licen…
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IITA-Tanzania hosts Member of Parliament
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21A Special Seats Member of Parliament, Hon. Neema Lungangira, visited IITA at its Eastern Africa re…
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IITA Forest Center biodiversity watch: The African House Snake
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)22.11.21One of the vast benefits of the IITA forest reserve is the diversity of creatures the forest…
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