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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
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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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From Lab to Farm: Scientific research and its contribution to family farming and rural entrepreneurship
22.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Joaquín Lozano, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, CGIAR This text reflects some…
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Breeding Resources Initiative lays out plans and progress: video & FAQs
22.11.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As part of CGIAR’s new Genetic Innovation research portfolio, Breeding Resources Initiative (BRI…
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Focusing on food systems to make cities sustainable and resilient
21.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Urbanization and agriculture evolved together, but as cities grew, so did the distance between urban…
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Can conditional cash transfers boost trust within communities? In Tanzania, they did
18.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Can conditional cash transfers boost trust within communities? In Tanzania, they did by David Evans…
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Two-wheel tractors transform smallholder farming communities in Masvingo
16.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The two-wheel tractor has been a life changer for Ranganai Muzorori. At a recent seed…
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USAID highlights Bayer-IRRI DSR collab at COP27
16.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On 11 November, USAID Administrator Samantha Power reaffirmed USAID’s commitment to the Agricultur…
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Yield advantage and economic performance of rice–maize, rice–soybean, and maize–soybean intercropping in rainfed areas of Western Indonesia with a wet climate
14.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The goals of smallholders in rainfed areas are generally to reduce risks, generate income, and…
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Strengthening land use planning and governance for improved drought response and livelihood benefits in Kenya
11.11.22-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Land access and ownership rights among pastoral communities living in arid and semi-arid areas in…
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World Science Day for Peace and Development 2022: Studying how to help vulnerable populations contend with shocks
10.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
World Science Day for Peace and Development 2022: Studying how to help vulnerable populations conten…
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A community of practice to make cities green, resilient and inclusive
08.11.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Urban Food Systems Community of Practice is a collaboration of the CGIAR Resilient Cities…
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COP27 can help the world achieve blue prosperity
05.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The transition to a green economy may be fundamental to the survival of people and…
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CGIAR Scientists and Partners Discuss Multiple-Win Solutions to the Global Food Crisis at Borlaug Dialogue 2022
31.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year’s Borlaug Dialogue, held under the theme of “Feeding a Fragile World,” focused on…
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From silver bullets to transition science in the CGIAR: reflections on the scalingXchange Call to Action
27.10.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The origins of the CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly funded agricultural research consortium for…
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From seed to feed
24.10.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Experts at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are working with partners t…
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Training in digital and data skills can bridge the gender divide in agriculture
21.10.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Data collection and analytics are key functions in modern development projects, but are often perfor…
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Improving potato yields and livelihoods in Georgia with innovations and training
17.10.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The potato may be known as the “second bread” in Georgia, but the country’s average…
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Eradicating poverty by nurturing the youth in aquaculture technologies
15.10.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Youth form the largest segment of the population in Africa and the world at large.…
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Collective action and perseverance pay off for women rice farmers in Madagascar
14.10.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Modernization of agriculture requires farmers to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and sustain the pr…
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