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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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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
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
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Towards gender transformative interventions in the Muhogo Bora cassava seed system project in Tanzania
17.07.23Achieving the gender equality commitment in agrifood systems would require deliberate and bold actio…
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Value addition key to Africa’s food and nutrition security
17.07.23An agribusiness boot camp was organized recently to improve the learning skills of the agribusiness…
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HER+ research on norms limiting women’s resilience to climate change
17.07.23In the recently concluded 2023 Development Studies Association (DSA) annual conference, IITA Pos…
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'Towards net zero food systems' at the 2023 Bonn Climate Conference
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Mitigation
At the 2023 Bonn Climate Conference, the CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems organized a…
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Shinier cows, more and better milk, income increase: First results of co-designing silage technology with a women farmer group in Tunisia
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Author of this blog: Udo Rudiger, Agricultural Innovation Specialist, ICARDA - Tunisia Small-scale l…
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Egypt's Agriculture Growth: A Study of the Seed Sector
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Climate change, water scarcity, and rapid population growth are major threats to the agricultural se…
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What is in a label? Examining the influence of cultural and colonial heritage on preferences and willingness to pay for local and international rice labels in Senegal
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At a time when policymakers in several countries across sub-Saharan Africa are seeking to increase …
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Voices of Change: Save seeds, plant indigenous crops!
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Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR) Social Equity team, and Nyan…
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Empowering women with digital solutions: Leveraging the potential of the private sector for socio-technical innovation
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Gender equality
The Gender Equality Initiative (HER+) conducts innovative gender and social science research to deve…
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More than a hundred elite rice lines for LAC, from the rice breeding programs (ALLIANCE-FLAR) to be adopted by all
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Nutrition, health & food security
Year by year hundreds of elite rice lines are developed by the Alliance of Bioversity…
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'When the water goes down, we remember the games': A photo story on groundwater governance in Ethiopia
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Groundwater is a key source of freshwater for drinking and irrigation that also has important…
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CIP contributes to policy discourse on accelerating economic growth and development for arid and semi-arid counties in Kenya
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Potato Center (CIP) participated in the 6th Kenya Institute for Public Policy Rese…
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Scaling agriculture science and innovation for a climate-resilient future in Africa
13.07.23Nowhere does the challenge of climate change manifest more acutely and urgently than in African…
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How to cut agriculture’s emissions to achieve a just transition
13.07.23Adam Fuseina works on her farm in Nafaring village, northern Ghana, October 8, 2021. Thomson…
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Rice crop tour highlights breeding and seed systems in Tanzania
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Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Tanzanian Agricultural Research Institute (…
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April-May 2023 Research Journal Roundup
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Roundup of research, journal and other academic articles from April and May 2023. The post…
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AIM4C Summit Side Event: Foresight, climate change, and agrifood systems
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by James Thurlow and Faaiqa Hartley OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Climate change poses significant challen…
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Why Coherence and Cohesion Matter for the CGIAR Research Portfolio
12.07.23Coherence and cohesion are essential qualities of any effective research portfolio. Yet the terms…
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