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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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FAO Status of Women in Agrifood Systems report: Reflecting on a decade of measuring progress in women’s empowerment
19.04.23by Agnes Quisumbing OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 I was recently in Rome attending the April…
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Landmark Partnership Guarantees Long-term Support For Globally Important Collections of Beans and Forages
18.04.23This landmark agreement delivers perpetual, guaranteed funding to conserve the beans and forages col…
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We must build food system resilience before the next crisis
17.04.23by Katrina Kosec and Johan Swinnen OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In February 2022, news of…
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Genetic gains in Uganda maize breeding are strong – and heading for improvement
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
In the face of complex climate risks in Uganda, maize breeders are ensuring smallholder farmers…
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Towards gender and climate resilience and adaptation for Khmer youth in Vietnam
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
To provide a platform for co-learning and share ideas and opinions from the perspectives of…
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Transforming Kenya’s Food Systems and Establishing a Science-Policy Interface
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Nutrition, health & food security
Key messages The Government of Kenya has prioritized a bottom-up approach and seeks innovative polic…
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Developing a National Strategy for Advancing Feed and Forage Resources in Tunisia
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Environmental health & biodiversity
CGIAR innovations via ICARDA considered as key pillars of the strategy. Authors of this blog:…
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2023 Global Food Policy Report calls for rethinking food crisis responses
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
April 13, 2023, Washington, D.C. The 2023 Global Food Policy Report, released by the International…
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Reforming Global Aid and Finance Would Make Ending Hunger an ‘Affordable Goal’, Finds New Report
13.04.23Experts call for more and longer-term funding to tackle systemic causes of hunger and break…
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The power of mentorship in empowering next-generation leaders
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Nutrition, health & food security
Mentorship plays a fundamental role in the lives of young people, providing them with the…
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Reduced-tillage potato cultivation as a sustainable organic farming practice
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On-farm demonstration trials using organic reduced tillage and rice straw mulching for potato crops …
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New lab services and systems set to launch in early 2023
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Nutrition, health & food security
To produce better crop varieties faster, breeding programs need to adopt the best services and…
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Training Tomorrow’s Agri-experts in Sudan
12.04.235th of March 2023- Wad Madani, Gezira Station, Sudan CGIAR and Sudan’s Agricultural Research Coorp…
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Patrick Caron Appointed Vice Chair of CGIAR System Board
12.04.23CGIAR is pleased to announce that current System Board member, Patrick Caron, has been appointed Vi…
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CGIAR and Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development promote direct seeding to transform Mekong Delta
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The CGIAR Initiatives on Excellence in Agronomy and Asian Mega-Deltas, in cooperation with the Depar…
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What can Bengaluru learn from Vietnam’s agricultural revolution?
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leading agricultural economist from Vietnam highlights the ways their national government reformed t…
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Boosting sweetpotato’s productive potential with hybrid breeding
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Nutrition, health & food security
Sweetpotato has great potential for improving food security, nutrition, and income, which is why sci…
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Afectaciones en el sistema alimentario de Colombia causadas por fenómenos naturales: El caso de Rosas Cauca
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Nutrition, health & food security
Click to read the English version El sistema alimentario es un conjunto complejo de procesos…
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