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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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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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Message from the System Board: CGIAR Launches Search for New Executive Managing Director
08.05.23We are delighted to announce that the CGIAR System Board has launched the globally competitive…
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Q+A: GEF IEO director Juha Uitto on the QoR4D Frame of Reference workshop
08.05.23Juha Uitto is the Director of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)’s Independent Evaluation Offic…
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Q+A: Sonal Zaveri on the power and potential of real-time evaluation
08.05.23Sonal Zaveri is an independent evaluation expert based in India, who has worked in over…
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Ecological engineering: An effective package for transitioning from conventional to regenerative agriculture
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ecological engineering is a novel approach to pest management that considers cultural practices root…
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April Message from the Chair of the System Board
07.05.23Warm greetings to the CGIAR community. As promised, this month I’m updating you on my…
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1st East Africa Potato Network Breeders Meeting discuss improving potato breeding in the region
05.05.23The 1st East Africa Potato Network Breeders Meeting took place from 2nd-4th May in Nairobi,…
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How to find meaning: A journey toward a Living Lab for People
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Mitigation
By Birgit Habermann, Eva Marina Valencia Leñero and Ryan Nehring Sometimes projects introduce a new…
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CGIAR initiatives highlight sustainable livestock investments for rangeland restoration at Global Landscapes Forum
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
On 7 March 2023, the CGIAR Research Initiatives on Livestock and Climate and Climate Resilience,…
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How the Rise of Timor-Leste’s Aquaculture Sector is a Blueprint for Other Small Island Nations
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For Timor-Leste, as with most other islands in the Pacific, fortunes are to be found…
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Six lessons learned from a year of multiple crises: Beyond the Russian invasion of Ukraine
05.05.23-
Food security
by David Laborde, Lysiane Lefebvre, Francine Picard and Valeria Piñeiro OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 As…
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New study assesses disease risk perceptions of wild meat at the border of Kenya and Tanzania
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
That many pandemics, including possibly COVID-19, have had their origins in wild animals might be…
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Expertos internacionales discutirán en Costa Rica cómo fortalecer el aporte de la ciencia, tecnología e innovación a la sostenibilidad y la competitividad de los sistemas agroalimentarios de las Américas
04.05.23Diálogo de alto nivel contará con más de 100 especialistas de la Fundación Bill &…
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Experts to meet in Costa Rica to discuss contribution of science in strengthening agrifood systems of the Americas
04.05.23More than 100 specialists from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CGIAR, the World Bank,…
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Indigenous people in South America are twice as likely to suffer severe consequences from wildfires
04.05.23The results show that smoke from wildfires in South America accounts for approximately 12,000 premat…
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IFPRI-BIMSTEC MoU signing: Transforming agrifood systems in the Bay of Bengal region
03.05.23by Anisha Mohan OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 More than 355 regional trade agreements are currently in e…
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IRRI and AfricaRice team awarded prestigious Milken-Motsepe Prize for rice varieties that can survive floods
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CALIFORNIA, United States of America (02 May 2023) – The International Rice Research Institute (IR…
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Engaging local partners to develop sustainable feeds in Zambia
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Zambia faces a huge challenge in terms of local aquatic feed supply, particularly for small…
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Philippines scientists develop climate-resistant rice
02.05.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists at the International Rice Research Institute are developing varieties of climate-resistan…
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