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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Beekeeping’s economic and conservation benefits showcased at Olokemeji training
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)15.08.23The recent focus on aspartame has created a global controversy around one of the industrial…
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Capacity development in plant virus diagnostics impacting the next generation of scientists
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)15.08.23As part of efforts to strengthen the capacities of young graduates, IITA–CGIAR Virology and Mole…
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Investigating and addressing low agricultural productivity for women
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)15.08.23Despite the growing recognition of the vital contribution of women to agricultural production in low…
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Leading the way to import substitution through rice value addition
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)15.08.23Nigeria is Africa’s leading rice producer and produces over 46 percent of West Africa’s harvest.…
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Enset farming in Ethiopia: explained by indigenous farmers
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)15.08.23-
Biodiversity
375 enset-farming households in 20 communities were interviewed to gain insight into multiple aspect…
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Fostering food security and climate resilience: accelerated breeding modernization to support hi-impact NARES in Nepal
CGIAR Initiative on Accelerated Breeding14.08.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Accelerating breeding modernization to enhance genetic gains To address hunger, poverty, and climate…
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UN Stocktaking Moment stresses aquatic food systems for sustainable solutions
WorldFish14.08.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the climate crisis heats up, land-based food production is coming under increasing scrutiny. Not…
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CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator Entrepreneur Spotlight: Forest Africa Zambia Ltd: Redefining Fruit Processing for a Greener Future
CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa14.08.23-
Food security
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Nutrition
Images: The Forest Africa Zambia team and products. Photo credit: Forest Africa Zambia Ltd. What…
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Climate-smart rice production approaches for sustainable agriculture
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)14.08.23-
Food security
Mechanized DSR offers multiple benefits that enable early rice harvesting, timely sowing of seeds, a…
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Aquaculture researchers train on aquatic animal health management technologies
WorldFish11.08.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Aquaculture is the world's fastest-growing food production system and has been so for the past…
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Sustainable Cocoa Innovation Challenge for Colombia: Supporting innovation in the cocoa value chain for forest conservation and peacebuilding
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)11.08.23The CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform and Rockstart power this innovation challenge with the aim…
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Spelling out ACBs: Synergy of Scientific and Local Climate Knowledge in Agro-Climatic Bulletins in Vietnam
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)11.08.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Vietnam’s climate conditions have greatly affected the vulnerability of its local agriculture. In …
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Village Livestock Promoters get new dairy data app to support smallholder buffalo farmers in Nepal
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)11.08.23-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early 2023, Julie Ojango, a senior scientist in the Livestock Genetics program at the…
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CIMMYT releases 32 new elite maize lines
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)10.08.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
CIMMYT is pleased to announce the release of a set of 32 new CIMMYT maize…
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Timor-Leste's aquaculture sector progresses with third tilapia hatchery inauguration
WorldFish10.08.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“In Timor-Leste, the aquaculture sector has progressed well. In the future, it will deliver good…
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Fish in School Meals: A nutritious initiative for children in Timor-Leste
WorldFish10.08.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
A new pilot program, 'Fish in School Meals,' was launched on 17 July 2023 in…
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Ebonyi renews commitment to achieving zero hunger
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)10.08.23The Ebonyi State Government has renewed its commitment to achieving zero hunger in the southeastern…
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Banana farmers receive free TARIBAN plantlets for adoption and scaling
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)10.08.23After great effort put into the official release in 2021 and multiplication of the four new, impro…
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