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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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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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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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Tools for using the International Rice Genebank to breed for climate-resilient varieties
26.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Traditional rice varieties have been critical for developing improved stress-tolerant rice varieties…
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Funding this pioneering project in Colombia hailed ‘a very wise decision’ for the German government
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A project aiming to advance climate change mitigation and peacebuilding in Colombia has received pra…
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Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition
25.09.23-
Food security
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Gender equality
Launch Event: Guidelines for measuring gender transformative change in the context of food security,…
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Crop Diversity: A Tasty Way for Keeping Our Options Open
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Crop diversity is often overlooked in climate discussions, yet it's crucial to adaptation: we need…
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Meet the AgriTech4Uzbekistan Finalists
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
22 Innovation Teams and 45 Participants, Driven by the Ambition to Make an Impact in…
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Merging High-tech and Ancient Water Management Systems for Global Food Security
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Today, we face a myriad of water-related challenges, ranging from water scarcity and drought (due…
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Agroecology can achieve breakthroughs in the agricultural sector worldwide
24.09.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The new CGIAR report “Achieving Agricultural Breakthrough: A deep dive into seven technological ar…
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Informal trade: Insights from Phansidewa at the India-Bangladesh border
22.09.23BY NISHA TANEJA, SANJANA JOSHI, SANYA DUA, ABUL KAMAR, SUNIL SAROJ, DEVESH ROY, AND MAMATA…
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Cherishing crop diversity in a sea of sugarcane: inauguration of Uganda’s newest community seed bank
22.09.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Smallholder farmers here are largely immigrants from the West Nile region of Uganda who came…
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Going with the flow, or fighting for it?
22.09.23The Letaba River Basin in Southern Africa holds great spiritual significance for indigenous communit…
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CIMMYT takes part in the 113th edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show
21.09.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
CIMMYT scientists, researchers and subject experts participated in the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (Z…
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Avanzar2030 workshop: Synthesizing evidence on sustainable agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
21.09.23BY ELSA OLIVETTI AND BRIAN MCNAMARA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Food systems in Latin America…
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A guiding framework to boost Science and Practice of scaling innovation and three new roles to drive it
21.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scaling innovation is becoming increasingly important in the world of agricultural research for deve…
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Smallholder farmers in Kongwa District, Tanzania, use the iSAT advisory tool to better manage climate risks
21.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
To help smallholder farmers make better agricultural decisions and reduce the negative effects of cl…
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New study reveals alarming impact of food inflation on child undernutrition in low and middle-income countries
20.09.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
A new study published in Nature Communications sheds light on the critical relationship between fo…
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Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – and could offer lessons for scaling up
20.09.23BY ELISHEBA KIRU AND AULO GELLI OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 More than 250,000 children in public…
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RiceMoRe System revolutionizes rice production monitoring and reporting in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta
20.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
The Mekong River Delta is undergoing a remarkable digital transformation in the region’s rice prod…
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IRRI scientist honored with Borlaug Field Award for her work on farmer engagement and empowerment
20.09.23-
Food security
LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES (September 19, 2023) – International Rice Research Institute (IRRI…
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