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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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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
16.05.25-
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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The ‘tropical majority’ must steer ocean governance: A new paper makes the case
24.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Ocean conservation is vital for sustaining aquatic food systems but multiple threats, including clim…
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Government of Nepal adopts new fertilizer recommendations
24.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Balancing the application of fertilizers based on the characteristics of soil leads to increased cro…
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HER+ research on norms limiting women’s resilience to climate change
24.07.23-
Gender equality
In the recently concluded 2023 Development Studies Association (DSA) annual conference, IITA Pos…
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Impact of CGIAR research programs highlighted in ag fair
24.07.23To showcase CGIAR’s research impact in addressing food and nutrition insecurity, climate change, …
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Scaling opportunities in Molecular Biology to improve the agricultural sector
24.07.23The IITA Bioscience Center recently organized a five-day hands-on training in Ibadan to strengthen…
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Healthy living: Enabling a low glycemic diet
24.07.23About 72% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa has increased their dietary intake of carbohydrate…
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Yam multiplication plots established across five regions
24.07.23Efforts to encourage the adoption and expand diffusion of the newly released yam varieties across…
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Aflasafe technology showcased at international, high-level biocontrol events
24.07.23IITA’s internationally recognized Aflasafe Initiative has made significant strides in developing a…
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Information meets innovation: Climate data for resilient food value chains in CWANA
24.07.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Improving climate data availability through platforms like F2R-CWANA can enhance the analysis and un…
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Bridging the gap between traditional and regenerative agriculture with the agro-biodiversity index
24.07.23-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Regenerative agriculture presents a holistic approach to farming that not only focuses on enhancing …
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Participatory learning to raise rural women’s agency: Cultivating leadership and advocacy in Nigeria
22.07.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Women in rural areas often do not have equal opportunities in labor markets and face…
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Accelerating Nutrition For a Food Systems Transformation, HarvestPlus 2022 Annual Report
21.07.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
In 2022, over 86 million people in vulnerable farming families benefited from biofortified crops. Th…
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Russia terminates the Black Sea Grain Initiative: What’s next for Ukraine and the world?
20.07.23-
Food security
by Joseph Glauber, Brian McNamara, and Elsa Olivetti OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 On July 17,…
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Nutritious Home-Grown School Meals for Malawian children
20.07.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Youth
Six thousand school children in Kasungu and Lilongwe districts will soon, starting September 2023, e…
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Are children in low-income setups less likely to develop anaemia if their parents keep chicken rather than sheep or goats?
20.07.23Consumption of animal-source foods contributes to child growth and nutritional development thereby e…
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Advancing Climate Security in the Mediterranean: Toward a Shared Agenda for Action
20.07.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Grazia Pacillo, Marina Mastrorillo , and Ibukun Taiwo (Climate Security FOCUS) On June 26,…
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Evaluation and Planning Workshop on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA)
19.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Transforming Agri-Food Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) Initiative held its Evaluation and Plannin…
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Sowing the seeds of resilience among smallholder farmers in Bangladesh
19.07.23by Himanshu Pathak, Taslima Zahan, Apurbo Chaki, and Mamata Pradhan OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Tahera…
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