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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia
16.10.18-
Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – When Rosalina Heni is not working in the rice paddy…
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Securing the Future of Rice: Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, and IRRI Ink Partnership to Develop Advanced Rice Technologies and Programs
15.10.18-
Food security
SINGAPORE, 15 Oct. 2018 – Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP),…
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From agronomic practices to gender norms and agency in banana disease management
15.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
On the International Day of Rural Women, our researcher François Iradukunda reflects on how a…
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How gender shapes responses to climate change: New tools for measuring rural women’s empowerment
15.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY SOPHIE THEIS AND ELENA MARTINEZ This year’s International Day of Rural Women (Oct. 15) focu…
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IRRI partners with Singapore and UN’s FAO to address world hunger and malnutrition
15.10.18-
Food security
(SINGAPORE, 15 October 2018) – At the opening ceremonies of the world’s largest scientific confe…
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New Study: Domestic Migration Raises Incomes, Lowers Happiness
14.10.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington DC: Domestic migrants experience a substantial decline in mental and physical health, des…
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Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary: Data is ‘key’ to smart farming
12.10.18-
Big data
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Food security
Addressing hundreds of participants at the 2018 Global CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
11.10.18-
Food security
BY GASHAW TADESSE ABATE, TANGUY BERNARD, ALAN DE BRAUW, NICHOLAS MINOT AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT Sma…
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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity
11.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
(SINGAPORE – 12 October 2018) – THE WORLD’S LARGEST rice collection is to receive…
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IRRI and Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and Planning highlight resource mobilization efforts to boost agri-food sector
11.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
09 October 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh - The vital importance of investing in research for…
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WEBINAR: Measuring policy distortions along agricultural value chains: Lessons from Africa and Asia
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The global agricultural sector is undergoing a transformation, with a rapid expansion of trade in…
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From science to scaling: 2017 Annual Report
10.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
We are pleased to share the 2017 Annual Report from the CGIAR Research Program on…
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Charting the future of India’s sugar industry
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DEEPAYAN DEBNATH AND SURESH BABU India’s domestic sugar market is in the doldrums, as the…
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Evidence, interventions and impact: Building informal market food safety capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
09.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
In September 2018, a Brussels Development Briefing featured discussions on "Food safety: A critical…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
09.10.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Giulia Micheletti, Marlène Elias, and Jessica Raneri of Bioversity International describe a nu…
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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses
09.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making…
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Flagship Program 3 reviews progress, strategizes for 2019
08.10.18-
Food security
Creating complementarities and synergies and harmonizing approaches were the key takeaways from the …
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