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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
Ojanji Wandera16.05.25-
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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Afectaciones en el sistema alimentario de Colombia causadas por fenómenos naturales: El caso de Rosas Cauca
CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies11.04.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Click to read the English version El sistema alimentario es un conjunto complejo de procesos…
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Making agroecological transitions happen: Pause and Reflect workshop of the Agroecology Initiative
CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology11.04.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
More than 50 team members of the Agroecology Initiative gathered in Tunisia in March 2023…
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Food versus Fuel v2.0: Biofuel policies and the current food crisis
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)11.04.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
by Joseph Glauber and Charlotte Hebebrand OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Policies to boost biofuel producti…
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Increasing financial access in Ethiopia through mobile money: Results from experiments to catalyze enrollment and use among women and refugees
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)10.04.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Alan de Brauw OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The mobile money revolution has begun to…
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Home gardens are key to better lives for vulnerable tribes in India
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)10.04.23Battle against Hunger In 2020, 828 million people globally went hungry and almost 3.1 billion…
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IITA improves maize genotypes in developing countries
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)08.04.23Yellow maize varieties are widely grown particularly in tropical lowlands of West and Central Africa…
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Novelty weed control method boosts SSA women cassava farmers
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)08.04.23A new approach to controlling weeds in cassava will make life easier for millions of…
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CSAT-Mali to expand its activities with additional funding from the Embassy of the Norwegian Kingdom
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)08.04.23The Embassy of the Norwegian Kingdom in Mali has granted additional funding to the CSAT-Mali…
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Addressing stereotypes to help women unleash their full potential
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)08.04.23For a long time, stereotype threat has kept women and girls from unleashing their full…
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EU delegation visits DeSIRA project field experiments in Malawi
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)08.04.23The EU-DeSIRA Malawi team comprising Program Manager Marco Vacirca and Finance Manager Chapresto Cor…
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Free innovation and scaling course expands capacity with Spanish and French versions
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)08.04.23CGIAR, in collaboration with Wageningen University, has developed a free online course on innovati…
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Revolutionizing cassava breeding for widespread impact
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)08.04.23Siraj Ismail Kayondo, a Research scientist at CGIAR–IITA, is making a significant impact in the c…
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Orienting models towards food system transformation: putting policies first
CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience07.04.23-
Social inclusion
Many analyses model the impacts of climate change on various aspects of food systems. However,…
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Recent publication examines the contributions of resilience to food systems
CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets06.04.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
How does the concept of resilience contribute to the food security agenda, especially to our…
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The Russia-Ukraine war’s impact on global food markets: A historical perspective
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)06.04.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER, DAVID LABORDE, AND JOHAN SWINNEN The Russia-Ukraine war has focused global atten…
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Milking the dairy industry for lower greenhouse gas emissions in China
CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems05.04.23-
Mitigation
This article originally appeared on the Wilson Center's New Security Beat and is available here.…
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Call for research hosts: Capacity building through research stays for low-emission agriculture
CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems05.04.23-
Mitigation
The Climate, Food and Farming, Global Research Alliance Development Scholarships Programme (CLIFF-GR…
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March Message from the Chair of the System Board
CGIAR05.04.23Greetings to the CGIAR community. I plan to update you regularly, through video and written…
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