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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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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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Introducing the future of crop breeding: His/Her
16.05.23-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
As CGIAR puts the finishing touches to its forthcoming Genetic Innovation Gender Strategy, Vivian Po…
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CGIAR Initiative on One Health holds annual planning meeting
16.05.23-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
On 24–25 April 2023, the CGIAR Initiative on One Health held its annual planning meeting…
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Rice markets in South and Southeast Asia face stresses from El Niño, export restrictions
15.05.23by Abdullah Mamun and Joseph Glauber OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Agricultural markets—particularly tr…
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Interim DG and other IITA scientists on the Research.com world’s best plant science and agronomy list
15.05.23Leading research portal, Research.com, publishes annual rankings in multiple fields of science, incl…
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Cassava seed system boosted by SeedTracker’s new seed quality self-compliance reporting module
15.05.23IITA–CGIAR, in collaboration with the National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) and Catholic Reli…
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More donor support to strengthen IITA’s work on bio-stimulants
15.05.23With the high cost of fertilizers, bio-stimulants are becoming an affordable source for increasing f…
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IITA emerges as winner at the innovation week in Tanzania
15.05.23IITA–CGIAR won the overall best booth and the best booth under the research institutes and organi…
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IYA wins innovative youth award
15.05.23A member of the IITA Youth Agripreneurs in Kalambo has emerged as the winner of…
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Strengthened partnerships with Madagascar ministry to advance agriculture sector
15.05.23As Africa’s leading partner in research for development, IITA–CGIAR is making significant stri…
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Minister of Agriculture expresses confidence in IITA agriculture transformation in Togo
15.05.23IITA–CGIAR, under the auspices of the IFAD-funded Zero Hunger Project, has signed an agreement wit…
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Digital platform for smallholder farmers launched in Ogun State, Nigeria
15.05.23As part of efforts to strengthen the value chain processes in agriculture, especially among smallhol…
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Rice variety preferences in Bangladesh: What is the role of public breeders?
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
It has been suggested that public breeders should put more emphasis on the integration of…
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World's largest rice congress to be held in Manila, co-organized by the Philippine Agri Dept and IRRI
15.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The International Rice Congress is held every 4 years and for the first time ever…
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Building better buffalo farming in rural Nepal
12.05.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Nepal, farmers struggle to increase buffalo milk yields to boost productivity and the resilience…
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The Launch of CGIAR's Regional Climate Security Hub for the MENA region
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Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
On May 2nd, CGIAR launched its first official Regional Climate Security Hub for the MENA…
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Call for contributions to ‘From research to impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems’
11.05.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
‘From research to impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems’ International conference…
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Join us to commemorate the 2nd International Day of Plant Health
11.05.23Hybrid - Virtually via Zoom, and in-person at select CGIAR Centers- Register Now! In 2022, the…
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CGIAR to be a member of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
11.05.23This advisory group is a body that provides advice and guidance to the Executive Secretary…
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