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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-
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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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Co-design workshop on consumption traits to inform improved seed promotion
27.02.23-
Food security
Bjorn Van Campenhout, Leocardia Nabwire On Monday February 6th, a co-design workshop was organized i…
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Adoption and performance of direct-seeded rice technology in the Philippines
27.02.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Rice is one of the major food cash crops in the Philippines, yet the cost…
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50 years of rice breeding in Bangladesh: Genetic yield trends
27.02.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
In rice, there has been very limited research on genetic gain in Asia in general,…
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Gender-friendly seed production trainings help Bangladeshi women own their future
27.02.23-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Gender disparity manifests in various ways, one of those being giving women limited access to…
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Climate-Smart Villages in Southeast Asia: The pivotal role of seed systems in rice-based landscapes
27.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Given the aggravating nature of climate change impacts, rice farming will increasingly rely on impro…
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Nexus thinking needed to implement COP15 biodiversity targets
24.02.23-
Biodiversity
In December 2022, over 190 nations gathered in Montreal, Canada to finalize the Global Biodiversity…
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Building towards a climate-smart agriculture future through harnessing crop modeling
24.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Anticipating appropriate and timely responses to climate variability and change from an agricultural…
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Ukraine one year later: Impacts on global food security
23.02.23-
Food security
by Joseph Glauber OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 When Russian troops invaded Ukraine one year ago,…
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Harnessing aquatic foods to tackle multiple global challenges
23.02.23-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Policymakers addressing food system challenges now have access to new analyses and online tools that…
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Paving the Way for a United CGIAR – Boards Approve CGIAR’s Integration Framework Agreement
22.02.23We are delighted to share the news that the CGIAR Integration Framework Agreement (IFA) has…
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Measuring the extent of a risky practice: Using toxic chemicals on cattle for tick control in Uganda
21.02.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
By Richard Ariong, Jordan Chamberlin, Sarah Wairimu Kariuki, and Bjorn Van Campenhout OPEN ACCESS |…
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Celebrating women and girls aspiring to change the world through science
21.02.23Women account for less than 30% of scientists and researchers in the world, partly due…
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Farmers in Buhera gear up for climate-smart agriculture
21.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As climate change effects intensify, new innovations that enable smallholder farmers to adapt are no…
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Study on milk purchase and consumption in low-income households in Kenya highlights the importance of the informal dairy sector
21.02.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Favourable policies that promote the availability and affordability of milk sold by informal markets…
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December 2022- January 2023 Research Journal Roundup
21.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
As we transitioned into a new year, IWMI researchers continued to advance our knowledge of…
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New study of global One Health Networks highlights inequity in resource allocation
21.02.23-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
A new research paper published in The Lancet (Feb 2023) has examined the global distribution…
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Updates from Breeding Resources: 2023
20.02.23-
Big data
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR Breeding Resource Initiative (led and managed by Genetic Innovation’s Breeding Research Serv…
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Ministry of Forestry commits to reforesting more degraded lands in southwestern Nigeria
20.02.23Following IITA Forest Center’s impactful contributions to forest restoration in Africa, the Ogun …
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