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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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CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator Entrepreneur Spotlight: Afri-Farmers Market – Leveraging Technology to Empower Rural Farmers
26.05.23-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Entrepreneurship is not just about building a successful business; it’s also about using one’s s…
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Leveraging Theories of Change for Progress in Agriculture Research for Development: the CGIAR Approach
26.05.23Theories of change (ToC) are central to CGIAR's approach to performance management, underscored by t…
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IFPRI Announces New Operational Structure
26.05.23Washington, DC: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is pleased to announce a …
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Technology for whom? Discovering how Human - Centered Design (HCD) and User Research can help switch perspectives in Ethiopia
25.05.23“We need to know which questions to ask” - was the request of Lulseged Desta,…
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The long-run effect of public works employment: Evidence from Tunisia
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Workfare or public works employment programs have long been prominent in many developing countries. …
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From agreement to action: Contributing to biodiversity conservation through sustainable practices
25.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Biological diversity is undoubtedly a global asset of tremendous value to future generations. Yet, c…
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Blueprints for new varieties: CGIAR prepares new lab service with release of key crop reference genomes
24.05.23-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists at CGIAR are releasing several high quality reference genomes representing African crops …
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Taking a systems approach to groundwater governance in Nepal
24.05.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Many groundwater studies focus on the physical aspects of groundwater, including extraction rates, r…
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Q+A: Etienne Vignola-Gagné, Science-Metrix, and Enrico Bonaiuti, CGIAR, on the QoR4D Frame of Reference Workshop
24.05.23Enrico Bonaiuti is Research Team Leader for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning at CGIAR’s Intern…
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Prioritizing climate action for policy inclusion: Insights from a consultative multi stakeholder workshop in Kenya
24.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The workshop provided key insights, emphasizing the crucial link between the agricultural sector, cl…
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The benefits of climate-resilient organic methods: A farmer’s success story
24.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Harishankar has been using organic farming practices for the past 15 years and his farm…
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Accelerating delivery of stress-tolerant, nutritious seed in Eastern and Southern Africa
23.05.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Accelerated delivery with a difference is underway in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia to ensure access…
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Developing a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems
23.05.23-
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
23.05.23-
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
23.05.23-
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
22.05.23-
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
22.05.23-
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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