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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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What is conservation agriculture?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
If not practiced sustainably, agriculture can have a toll on the environment, produce greenhouse gas…
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New project strengthens capacity to fight fall armyworm in Bangladesh
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)22.01.20-
Food security
Hundreds of agricultural professionals in Bangladesh were trained in the latest fall armyworm manage…
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Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)16.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in Africa south of the Sahara are generally low, in large part because…
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Study calls for better understanding of fertilizer prices faced by African smallholder farmers
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)15.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa are generally low. This is in large part because of…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)06.01.20-
Big data
In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…
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Prevention is better than cure
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)16.12.19-
Food security
Whenever seed is transferred between countries, continents or regions there is an inherent risk that…
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What is wheat blast?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)11.12.19-
Food security
There are no widely available resistant varieties, and fungicides are expensive and provide only a…
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Screening cycle for deadly MLN virus set to begin in Kenya in January 2020
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)09.12.19-
Food security
The maize lethal necrosis (MLN) artificial inoculation screening site in Naivasha, Kenya, will begin…
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Agricultural solutions to tackle humanity’s climate crisis
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)06.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
More than 11,000 scientists signed on to a recent report showing that planet Earth is facing a…
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Nurture soil as our food and climate insurance
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)05.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Kassim Massi and Joyce Makawa have learned how conservation agriculture nurtures the soil of their…
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Scaling out climate-smart agriculture in southern Africa
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Adoption rates for climate-smart agricultural practices remain low in many of the countries which st…
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Do smallholders get the right seed and inputs from their agrodealer?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)28.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Many Tanzanian smallholder farmers fail to produce even 1 ton of maize grain per hectare.…
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How a disease without borders was contained
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)25.11.19-
Food security
t’s been eight years since maize lethal necrosis (MLN) was first reported on the African…
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Healthy diets feature both whole- and refined-grain foods, new study shows
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)20.11.19-
Nutrition
Grain-based foods — both whole-grain and refined, from which the bran has been removed —…
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Scientists develop an early warning system that delivers wheat rust predictions directly to farmers’ phones
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.11.19-
Big data
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Food security
Using field and mobile phone surveillance data together with forecasts for spore dispersal and envir…
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Fight against fall armyworm in Asia benefits from experience in other regions
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)31.10.19-
Food security
When the destructive fall armyworm arrived in Asia in the summer of 2018, scientists were…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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It’s time to change the system, not just the technology
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.10.19-
Food security
Society faces enormous challenges in the transition to sustainable rural development. We are unlikel…
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