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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Warmer night temperatures reduce wheat yields in Mexico, scientists say
08.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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As many regions worldwide baked under some of the most persistent heatwaves on record, scientists…
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New CIMMYT pre-commercial hybrids available from Asia maize breeding programs
05.08.19-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of improved…
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CIMMYT and CGIAR staff join Ethiopia’s record-breaking tree-planting campaign
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
July 29, 2019, was a remarkable day for Ethiopia. People across the country planted 353,633,660 tre…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Interview with Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia on social inclusion
31.07.19-
Gender equality
How can social protection programs be truly inclusive? Taking a social inclusion lens to agricultura…
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India honors CIMMYT climate-smart farming expert
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
​The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) honored a cropping systems agronomist from the…
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New manual provides quantitative approach to drought stress phenotyping
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Since 1900, more than two billion people have been affected by drought worldwide, according to the…
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Precision spreader for fertilizer set to change the agriculture scene in Nepal
19.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Smallholder farmers in Nepal tend to apply fertilizer by hand, spreading it as they walk…
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What farmers want
19.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has been undertaking participatory mai…
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Top scientists from CGIAR to present latest research at International Wheat Congress in Canada
17.07.19Amid global efforts to intensify the nutritional value and scale of wheat production, scientists fro…
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New association formed to support smallholder native maize farmers in Mexico
08.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Expert Mexican scientists and farmer cooperatives have formed a non-profit organization to support s…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Women in wheat science
01.07.19Demand for wheat is predicted to increase 70% by the year 2050. As demand for…
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Experimental stations in Mexico improve global agriculture
01.07.19The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) operates five agricultural experiment …
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Reconciling food security, resource depletion and environmental quality trade-offs in India
28.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research, by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), delved into linkages…
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The case for rushing farmer access to BARI Gom 33
26.06.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In 2016, the emergence of wheat blast, a devastating seed- and wind-borne pathogen, threatened an a…
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CIMMYT global partnership fights mutating wheat rust
24.06.19-
Food security
Stem rust, which occurs mainly in warm and humid conditions, is a serious biotic threat…
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Are high land rental costs pricing African youth out of agriculture?
21.06.19-
Gender equality
A new study shows that youth can face higher land rental prices than older farmers in Tanzania…
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Bird’s-eye view
20.06.19-
Food security
A new study from researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) shows…
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Groundwater conservation policies help fuel air pollution crisis in northwestern India, new study finds
17.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Groundwater conservation policies are contributing to the air pollution crisis in northwestern India…
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