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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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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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A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers
03.01.20-
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A massive capacity building initiative involving elaborate logistical arrangements covering all the …
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Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
11.12.19-
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Third in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under climate…
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Agricultural solutions to tackle humanity’s climate crisis
06.12.19-
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More than 11,000 scientists signed on to a recent report showing that planet Earth is facing a…
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Why gender matters in forest restoration
02.12.19-
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Gender equality
Effective forest and landscape restoration interventions need to take into account socio-political …
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AfricaRice wins prestigious Al-Sumait Prize 2019
28.11.19-
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Recognizing the important role of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) in enhancing food security in…
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IWMI joins United Nations Global Compact initiative
28.11.19-
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Gender equality
IWMI is delighted to have become a participant in the United Nations Global Compact which…
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Planetary health, agroforestry and Sub-Saharan Africa
27.11.19-
Environmental health
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MEDIA RELEASE: Immediate Planetary health, agroforestry and Sub-Saharan Africa Nairobi, Kenya, 26 No…
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Students visit PATSPO BSO
26.11.19-
Environmental health
Grade one and two pupils of Lion Heart Academy, Addis Ababa, visited the Provision of…
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Putting new-age agronomy to test in Indian farms
22.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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A group of farmers in India’s Telangana state is breaking new ground in their farms…
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Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
21.11.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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Policy transformation for achieving the SDGs: Can translational research help?
12.11.19-
Environmental health
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will take major transformations of the …
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Spotlight on crop diversity as ICRISAT’s Genebank holds inaugural field day
11.11.19-
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Cutting across disciplines of crop research, scientists gathered at ICRISAT to observe and evaluate …
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Hybrid rice review: Updating notions about hybrid rice
05.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Recent research and technological advancements have significantly improved the quality and viability…
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FAO SOFA report 2019: New insights into food loss and waste
22.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Fourteen percent of the food produced globally is lost during the post-harvest production stage befo…
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NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
18.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel s…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
15.10.19-
Environmental health
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Pioneering research on our three most important cereal grains — maize, rice, and wheat —…
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How air pollution is holding down wheat yields in India
11.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Since the start of the Green Revolution in the mid-1960s, India has tripled its wheat…
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Achieving policy impact with political economy research: frameworks, applications, and lessons learned
07.10.19-
Environmental health
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Danielle Resnick shares her reflections about the recent "Political economy for improved policy anal…
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