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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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Conservation agriculture key in meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals
16.04.20-
Food security
An international team of scientists has provided a sweeping new analysis of the benefits of conserv…
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Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security
13.04.20While all eyes are on Lombardy, Madrid, New York and Wuhan, what do we know…
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Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
08.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
While the world’s attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the biodiversit…
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Crossing boundaries
07.04.20Daily life as we know it has grinded to a halt and crop scientists are…
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Wheat curl mites: What are they and how can we fight them?
01.04.20The wheat curl mite, a pesky wheat pest which can cause up to 100% yield…
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ICARDA’s Mustapha El-Bouhssini explains how crop pests are moving in a warming world
26.03.20Insect resistance in plants is needed now more than ever. The UN, which has named…
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Shared responsibilities and equal economic benefits
25.03.20-
Gender equality
Women play a crucial role in Ethiopian agriculture. A significant portion of their time is…
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Whole grains
25.03.20-
Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Breaking Ground: Aparna Das leads efficient and demand-driven maize research
25.03.20Getting a good maize harvest, or just enough to feed the family, has always been…
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Crowdsourced data feeds fall armyworm surveillance in Bangladesh
20.03.20-
Food security
Following the spread of fall armyworm, crowdsourced data is powering a web-based application to he…
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Systems thinking at work in South Asia’s food production
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2009, state governments in Northwest India implemented a policy designed to reduce groundwater ex…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
05.03.20-
Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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Back to where they came from
11.02.20-
Biodiversity
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has embarked on a project to return…
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Fireflies, food and future systems – scientists share inspiration behind choosing science as a lifestyle
10.02.20-
Gender equality
Plant breeding, genetics, math and software development are all stereotypically male fields. For too…
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Ten new CIMMYT-developed maize varieties released in Pakistan
05.02.20-
Food security
Pakistan’s maize sector achieved a remarkable milestone in 2019 by releasing ten new maize varieti…
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