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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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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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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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Is Ethiopia missing a golden opportunity for addressing hidden hunger? The opportunities and challenges of biofortification
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Nutrition
by Taddese Zerfu, Fantu Bachewe, Tirsit Genye, Meron Girma, Aregash Samuel, James Warmer, and Cornel…
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Capacity-building workshops in East Africa help strengthen partnerships and create new ones
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Food security
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (18 August 2023) – The local rice supply in Burundi and in the…
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Relief group travels hundreds of kilometers to feed school children in Cameroon, braving roadblocks to grow orange-fleshed sweetpotato in conflict-affected areas
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
Two humanitarian staff recount their two-day road trip in the Northwest conflict-stricken region of …
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Buffalo dairy value chain in Nepal showing symptoms of change
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On 20 July 2023, a team from the CGIAR initiative on Sustainable Animal Productivity (SAPLING)…
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Inclusive Agribusiness: Transforming the Landscape for Women and Youth in Agriculture
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In Africa, women's contributions to agriculture are immense, as they form the largest share of…
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CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems (Mitigate+) supports the International Forum of Low-emission Agrifood Systems launched in Beijing
17.08.23-
Mitigation
By Ziqian Song On July 4, 2023, the launch meeting of the International Forum of…
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Sowing Seeds of Resilience: Transforming Kenya's Makueni County with Climate-smart Agriculture
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As a country with arid and semi-arid land, the effects of climate change put food…
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Social incentive nudges decrease prosocial behavior and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Uganda
17.08.23Impact Assessment has traditionally played an accountability role in the CGIAR, providing evidence o…
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Haiti: Improving the sweetpotato seed system in a challenging humanitarian environment
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sweetpotato, a hardy and nutritious crop, holds immense potential in addressing food security and nu…
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Transforming herd health into an integrated package for smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On 24–25 July 2023, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) held a consultation, Exp…
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Toward zero-deforestation supply chains in conflict-affected settings (webinar)
17.08.23-
Mitigation
This webinar shared evidence and insights gathered under a pioneering project that seeks to simultan…
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IITA and CIP provide Eastern DRC relief efforts with RTB planting materials
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Access to quality planting materials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of…
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Discovering hope: Potato and sweetpotato technology transforming lives in drought and conflict-affected Ethiopia
16.08.23The post Discovering hope: Potato and sweetpotato technology transforming lives in drought and confl…
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Training for veterinary officers in Vietnam strengthens skills to improve food safety research in pork value chains
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
Twelve veterinary officers from five provinces in Vietnam were trained in Salmonella isolation metho…
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TAFSSA: revolutionizing livestock feed storage – training farmers in silage and hay production in Bangladesh
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Farmers as part of the TAFSSA training, getting hand-on practice at making quality livestock fodder.…
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CGIAR’s Africa-based leaders meet in Ibadan, Nigeria, to discuss solutions to the region’s food security challenges
15.08.23In a historic first, Dr Simeon Ehui, IITA Director General (DG) and CGIAR Continental Director…
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Nigerian government to support IITA-CGIAR’s agriculture transformation agenda
15.08.23Following his assumption of office, IITA Director General and CGIAR Continental Director for Africa,…
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IITA’s new Director General to support NFWP-SU project to improve women’s livelihood
15.08.23As part of the strategies to position women as catalysts in the areas of technology…
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