News
Featured news
-
Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
Read more -
Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
Read more -
CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
Read more -
-
Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
Read more -
-
Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
Read more -
-
How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
Read more -
Filters
-
More cassava for less time
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Cassava has a relatively long growth cycle compared to other important crops. It takes an…
Read more -
-
The legacy of a life devoted to seed conservation
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Chin Hoong Fong…
Read more -
-
Banana Breeders Challenged to Breed for Weevils and Nematodes
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
Banana researchers from across the globe are congregating in Kampala, Uganda from 27 to 29…
Read more -
-
Forest fact or fiction
26.03.18-
Biodiversity
-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Last Wednesday marked the seventh International Day of Forests, an occasion to celebrate our forests…
Read more -
-
Launch of the IPBES regional assessments
24.03.18-
Biodiversity
-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The sixth plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecos…
Read more -
-
DOIs: A new era for germplasm labelling
18.03.18-
Biodiversity
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) have now been chosen to provide a globally unique and permanent…
Read more -
-
Have ESR-sponsored training courses stimulated uptake of ecosystem service science?
15.03.18-
Biodiversity
-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Between 2014 and 2016, the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)…
Read more -
-
IITA, icipe, CABI: Developing a strategy to combat invasive species in Africa
08.03.18-
Biodiversity
IITA, together with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the Centre…
Read more -
-
Peru and Bioversity International sign an agreement to advance research on cocoa
01.03.18-
Biodiversity
-
Climate
Out of 40 project proposals, the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru selected the top 6,…
Read more -
-
On the 10th anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a call for conserving the rest of the world's food
01.03.18-
Biodiversity
This week Ann Tutwiler was privileged to join the celebration of the 10th anniversary of…
Read more -
-
Celebrating CGIAR “Global Gatekeepers” of Crop Diversity
27.02.18-
Biodiversity
“Genebanks are the backbone of CGIAR innovation. They ensure that thousands of scientists – acr…
Read more -
-
Jean Hanson: Building the next generation of genebank managers
22.02.18-
Biodiversity
Jean Hanson, the retiring leader of the Forage Diversity Project at the International Livestock Rese…
Read more -
-
The bean that could withstand hurricanes
13.02.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he thinks he saw one once … or…
Read more -
-
Orphan crops for improving diets
12.01.18-
Biodiversity
-
Nutrition
Photo by K. Kehlenbeck/ICRAF Orphan crops, so-called because they are considered neglected and under…
Read more -