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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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Developing a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems
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Gender equality
by Jessica Heckert, Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Greg Seymour, Hazel Malapit, Florencia Paz,…
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Making good on Dakar 2 Commitments
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Food security
CGIAR's System Board Chair, Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, represented CGIAR at the African Dev…
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Urban agriculture during economic crisis: Lessons from Cuba, Sri Lanka and Ukraine
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
How low-cost measures can help to reduce an urban food crisis. Economic crises take different…
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Crop Trust leadership visits CIMMYT
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Environmental health & biodiversity
With many stresses facing agricultural food systems, including climate change, disease epidemics, gr…
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SCIENCE + NEGLECTED CROPS = BETTER BIODIVERSITY
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Biodiversity
Neglected crops can improve soil health, reduce water usage, provide a nutritious food source, a…
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CGIAR officially launches Portfolio of Research Initiatives in Zambia
22.05.23The CGIAR Portfolio of Research Initiatives was launched in Zambia on 26 April at a high-level eve…
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IITA continues supporting the PADECAS Project in Central Africa Republic
22.05.23IITA–CGIAR has been providing support to the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project in the …
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CGIAR explores IITA’s best practices for system-wide adoption
22.05.23The CGIAR Global Director of Business Operations and Finance, Marion Barriskell, and Senior Directo…
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Breeders deliberate on soybean product advancement to meet market demand
22.05.23As part of efforts to combat malnutrition in Africa, IITA-CGIAR has embraced the breeding and adopt…
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New partnership to reduce post-harvest loss and boost food security in Nigeria
22.05.23On 3 May, IITA-CGIAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Nigerian Stored Products Research…
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Mother of Grains: what millet teaches us about biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Hardy, nutritious crops like millets were once commonplace on farms and plates. Research shows that…
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Fragility, Conflict, and Migration: A new CGIAR Initiative for a fragile world
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) Initiative is the newest addition in the CGIAR research…
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Digital Support for Women Beekeeper Entrepreneurs
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The AID-CSB project, launched in 2021, is an innovative digital initiative in Ethiopia and Uzbekis…
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Golden eggs: The potential of potato in mulch
19.05.23Potato in mulch is currently being promoted and refined by CIP in India and Bangladesh.…
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Q+A: John Gargani on evaluation of research and innovation for development
19.05.23John Gargani is an independent evaluation expert, and a former President of the American Evaluation…
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Reflections on workshop: Adaptive co-design of research for development (R4D) evaluations – the need for engagement, learning and ongoing reflection
19.05.23How should the recently developed Quality of Research for Development (QoR4D) Evaluation Guidelin…
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Q+A: Former ICAR-NAARM head Dr D. Rama Rao on the QoR4D Frame of Reference workshop
19.05.23Dr A. Rama Rao is former head of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)’s…
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Q+A: International project management expert Hasna Ziraoui on the QoR4D Frame of Reference workshop
19.05.23Hasna Ziraoui is an international project management expert who is based in Morocco. She currently…
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