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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
Ojanji Wandera16.05.25-
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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Bram Govaerts appointed as CIMMYT Director General
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)03.07.23Bram Govaerts, renowned scientist and leader, has been appointed as CIMMYT’s Director General for …
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Scientists urge shifting more nitrogen to low-input farms and better use on high-yield farms
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Integrated management of organic and inorganic nitrogen sources in high- to low-yield cereal product…
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ENABLE-TAAT to explore Somali youth empowerment through agribusiness
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)03.07.23ENABLE-TAAT and the sorghum commodity compact are exploring partnership opportunities with the gover…
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Taking improved seed production and marketing techniques to community-based seed producers
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)03.07.23The journey to change Community-Based Seed Producers (CBSPs) to Community-Based Seed Entrepreneurs (…
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IITA-CGIAR research reveals areas to improve Africa’s nutrition
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)03.07.23Many Africans are malnourished, micronutrient deficient, associated with diet-related non-communicab…
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Engaging aggregators and farmers to deliver quality grain for consumer and seed markets
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)03.07.23IITA, under the One CGIAR Seed Equal initiative Work Package 2, “Boosting Legume Seed through …
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Uniting Forces for Sustainable Agriculture: Highlights from the 8th CGIAR Advisory Committee (CAC) Meeting in Bangladesh
CGIAR03.07.23The 8th CGIAR Advisory Committee (CAC) Meeting, co-hosted by the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Co…
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Cross-sectoral learnings on emerging gender and social norms measures
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As part of the Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+)…
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A farmers’ cooperative in Kenya receives a modern seed dressing machine to boost Kenya’s rice production
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
NAIROBI, Kenya (26 June 2023)- In a transformative move to increase rice seed production and…
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Bundling gender responsive socio-technical innovations: Unpacking the what and how
CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality03.07.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
The CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative organized a stakeholder workshop on 23 – 24 May 2023.…
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How we are professionalizing breeding research management processes
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CGIAR breeding programs and Centers have been coming together as One CGIAR, to ensure smallholders…
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CGIAR Genetic Innovation’s Seed Equal leadership team participates in the World Seed Congress 2023
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Food security
Building on CGIAR’s commitment to delivering improved varieties to smallholder farmers, the leader…
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Championing Sustainable Storage Practices for Healthier Crops in Northern Nigeria
HarvestPlus29.06.23HarvestPlus Nigeria is taking a proactive stance to promote environmentally friendly crop storage pr…
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Senegal – eighth country to join the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology
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Environmental health & biodiversity
CIRAD, the French agricultural research and cooperation organization working for the sustainable dev…
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New study reveals strategic investments in 5 countries hold the key to tackling climate challenges in livestock production
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)29.06.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
To address the climate crisis, a paradigm shift in the global livestock sector is not…
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June Message from the Chair of the System Board
CGIAR29.06.23Warm greetings to everyone in the CGIAR community. I recorded the video version of this…
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Sowing the Future: Africa's lead common bean breeder at the Alliance
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)29.06.23She is currently working as the global lead common bean breeder at the Alliance. This…
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CGIAR to host the next ICTforAg conference in November 2023
CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation29.06.23The next ICTforAg conference will take place from 7-9 November 2023. A recent online launch…
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