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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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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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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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Odisha revives grass pea cultivation to turn fallow lands into fertile grounds
29.04.24-
Biodiversity
Apart from its nutritional value, the grass pea can be grown as a relay crop…
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Unanswered questions and unquestioned answers
22.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Over the past few decades, Conservation Agriculture (CA) has moved from theory to practice…
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Nurturing Africa’s Soil Health: Towards Zero Soil Loss and Runoff
18.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Soil erosion is sweeping away African farmers’ profits. With current soil degradation rates up to…
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International Day of Forests: IITA Forest Center contributes to forest conservation in Nigeria
17.04.24-
Biodiversity
Every 21 March, we celebrate World Forest Day, a global reminder of the importance of…
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Soils4Africa workshop: Madagascar youth learn soil information system tools
17.04.24-
Environmental health
The goal of the Soils4Africa project is to develop an open-access soil information system and…
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IITA Forest Center: innovative approaches to sustainable forest management
17.04.24-
Biodiversity
On 22 March, to celebrate the International Day of Forests, IITA–CGIAR and Wild Africa Fund or…
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Sustaining Conservation Agriculture initiatives: lessons from Malawi
12.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced the worst impacts of climate change on agriculture o…
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NEXUS Gains: Webinar podcast series
11.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
If you’ve missed any of our monthly NEXUS Gains Talks, you can now stream all…
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How crop breeding can benefit the environment
08.04.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Modern agricultural practices have enabled food production to meet — and even outpace — demands…
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How Youth and Women Are Key to Senegal’s Farming Future
05.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The agricultural sector is one of the pillars of this central African country’s economy, with…
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Empowering West Africa Against Locust Threats: Harnessing the Expertise of Women Scientists
04.04.24-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
A Machine Learning Engineer at SERVIR West Africa Program is strengthening the p-Locust platform for…
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Balancing food security, vertebrate biodiversity, and healthy rice agroecosystems in Southeast Asia
04.04.24-
Biodiversity
In Southeast Asia, as mechanization increases, there is a need to evaluate the impact of…
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Successful surveillance results in early first detection of Ug99 in South Asia
04.04.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Successful global wheat disease surveillance and monitoring has resulted in early detection o…
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2023: A year of action research in eight countries
03.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Country-specific research progress is steadily unfolding in the eight countries and their ALLs, with…
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2023 Initiative key results at a glance
03.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
In 2023, the Initiative is reporting 233 results, 16 innovation developments, 5 innovation uses, 3…
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Partnerships that drive the Agroecology Initiative impact pathway
03.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Since the Initiative began two years ago, food system actors in target territories have shown…
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Initiative progress on science in agroecology
03.04.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
In 2023, the Initiative amply demonstrated the value of the foundation it established in 2022…
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Designing a transboundary multistakeholder platform in the Incomati: Learning from other African basins
28.03.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Setsabile Thwala, Ryan Nehring, and Jonathan Lautze The CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains convened…
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