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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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On farm: exploring the genetic diversity of RTB hotspots
24.07.19-
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This June, scientists from all over the world convened in the south of France for…
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Multi-location evaluation of six pigeonpea pre-breeding lines through India’s national program
19.07.19-
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Developed at ICRISAT, these lines have been selected by the All India Coordinated Research Project…
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The birth of an impatient and optimistic breed of community seed producers in Mali
19.07.19-
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Jean Goita has come a long way since his days as a grain producer in…
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Helping groundnut retain its place in Nigeria through the Tropical Legumes Project
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Alhaji Sani Usman remembers what being a groundnut farmer in Nigeria’s Kano state entailed a…
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Drylands Development Programme: changed lives in the Sahel
15.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Many farming families in dryland Africa have been struggling to feed themselves and lead a…
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AfricaRice hybrid rice varieties spark seed companies’ interest in Africa
09.07.19-
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9 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. A set of four high-yielding hybrid rice varieties with…
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Regreening activities kick-off in Somalia
09.07.19-
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Thousands of farmers are set to benefit from land restoration in the drought- and strife-stricken…
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New association formed to support smallholder native maize farmers in Mexico
08.07.19-
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Expert Mexican scientists and farmer cooperatives have formed a non-profit organization to support s…
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The Seed of the Technology: ISTA conference generates interest in concerns of the drylands
05.07.19-
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Discussions at the recently concluded congress of the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) …
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Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
04.07.19-
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Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local level…
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Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping
28.06.19-
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In 2003, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) designed a set of long-term trials…
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Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
28.06.19-
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Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lad…
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The role of biodiversity in agroforestry and other types of smallholder farming
28.06.19-
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The global supply and consumption of food has increased over the last 50 years. However,…
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Agrobiodiversity essential to sustainable food systems for the future
25.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
A new book from MIT Press proposes and develops an expanded concept of agrobiodiversity, which,…
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
22.06.19-
Biodiversity
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It’s 2019, the world is changing at a rapid pace, why agroforestry? With the changes…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
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Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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Zoom in on Borneo ecology
20.06.19-
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Indonesia - The forests of Borneo are some of the most ecologically diverse in the…
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Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture
18.06.19-
Biodiversity
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In the vernacular of climate change, the term ‘climate justice’ is nowadays rolling off tongues…
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