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Addressing Inflation Requires Global Food Systems Transformation
20.09.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With food prices playing such a significant role in inflation, particularly in the Global South,…
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Galvanizing Food Systems Transformation in South Asia
12.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
New Initiative builds on CGIAR’s collective strengths and brings together stakeholders to address …
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Africa Must Fast-track Adoption of Proven and Sustainable Solutions to Survive Food Crisis
05.09.22The repercussions of the global food crisis, coupled with a protracted drought and a challenging…
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CGIAR Scientist Receives the 2022 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application
01.09.22Dr. Mahalingam Govindaraj explains how CGIAR helped him to develop the ground-breaking work which le…
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Namukolo Covic Appointed Regional Director, East & Southern Africa, Amid Boost to Regional Leadership
24.08.22Dr. Namukolo Covic, ILRI Director General’s representative to Ethiopia and CGIAR Country Convenor,…
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CGIAR Annual Performance Report 2021 Now Available Online
29.07.22In 2021, CGIAR celebrated its 50th year of delivering critical science and innovations to address…
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Cameroon seeks to strengthen ties with IITA in cassava production
23.09.22His Excellency Gabriel Mbairobe, Hon Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER) from t…
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IITA Forest Center expands its species conservation bank
23.09.22On 25 August, IITA Forest Center contributed to ecosystem restoration in a tree planting exercise…
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IITA trains science messengers to promote agricultural research
23.09.22In a virtual seminar organized by IITA–CGIAR on 12 September, Program Manager of Biotech and Gen…
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NAGGW team to collaborate with IITA on mandate crops
23.09.22The Executive Director, National Agency for the Great Green Walls (NAGGW), Dr Yusuf Bukar, visited …
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Bunchy top disease emerges as new threat to East African bananas
23.09.22Africa’s leading banana production region is threatened by the invasive spread of the banana bunc…
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Tanzanian high school students request agricultural training from IITA
23.09.22“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn…
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IITA’s research intervention transforming Rwandan agriculture
23.09.22IITA–CGIAR in Rwanda contributes to agriculture technology through innovation generation in its…
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Muhogo Bora project validates socially inclusive model for selecting cassava seed entrepreneurs in Tanzania
23.09.22Twenty-nine farmers, extension agents, food processors, and food entrepreneurs participated in a tra…
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PICAGL-supported NABANA cassava variety at the heart of the Luhwindja agricultural fair
23.09.22The IITA–CGIAR Projet Intégré des Grand Lacs (PICAGL) participated in the agricultural fair or…
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IITA scientists train WFP Kano third-party warehouse managers on grain management best practices
23.09.22IITA–CGIAR and the World Food Program (WFP), Kano, conducted grain management and hermetic storag…
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MasAgro is “a gift for Africa”
23.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Between June 20-23, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) hosted its Board o…
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Mail & Guardian: Governments are still not putting water security at the centre of the climate crisis
22.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
The climate crisis is a water crisis but governments around the world are still…
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Can we accelerate gender equality?
22.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In an introductory essay for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2022 Goalkeepers report, Melind…
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Vietnam’s first ‘AGRITECHNICA ASIA Live’: An International Success
22.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CAN THO, Vietnam, September 1, 2022) - Almost 4,000 attendees; 80 companies with machinery demonstra…
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Integrated initiative launches in Nepal, India and Bangladesh
21.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR, in collaboration with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders, held country launc…
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Drought tolerant maize and use of forecasting in agriculture praised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
21.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The work of maize and wheat scientists at CGIAR and the International Maize and Wheat…
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Connect Rural Areas with Digital Innovations to Unlock Climate Resilience for Hundreds of Millions of Farmers
21.09.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research shows that digital innovations can increase small-scale farmers’ incomes, boost the adopt…
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The quest for CGIAR innovations to reduce food system carbon footprints on a global scale
21.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Innovations from CGIAR defined the Green Revolution. For example, high-performing varieties of wheat…
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