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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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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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How I-Youth, Agrihub Nigeria projects are supporting youths to modernize dairy farming in Adamawa State
17.02.25The youth in the agribusiness unit of IITA has provided employment opportunities for 500 youths…
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WATEA stakeholders explore IITA cassava processing technology
17.02.25Cassava, a versatile and nutritious crop, is gaining global recognition for its economic and dietary…
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Harnessing Cowpea and Bambara Groundnut for a resilient future
17.02.25Growing up in Kenya, I looked forward to the occasions—once or twice a month—when meat…
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Climate adaptation: Ensuring resilience in agriculture
15.02.25Across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers are confrontin…
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Invisible Malnutrition: Protein Deficiency Plagues Rural India Despite Availability and Affordability
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Food security
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Nutrition
In rural India, where agriculture sustains millions, a surprising paradox exists—protein deficienc…
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How a breeding network could build a genetic pathway to more productive and climate-smart livestock in Africa
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
African livestock producers have a unique opportunity to improve the production of meat, milk and…
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Unraveling the genome: Sequencing with MinION in common bean research
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Scientists in Uganda are using the MinION portable sequencer to study common bean genomics, aiming …
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Enset vs. Bananas: Understanding Ethiopia's Unique Crops
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ethiopia – often referred to as the ‘cradle of humanity’ due to its significance in the…
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Boosting livestock productivity and sustainability in East Africa: The role of forage seed systems
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Livestock farming plays a critical role in the economies of East African countries, with millions…
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Developing scaling strategy guidelines for CGIAR innovations: An update from Scaling Week on what CGIAR is learning along the way
12.02.25Header photo: Private veterinarians vaccinate small ruminants against peste des petits ruminants (PP…
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Towards a new generation of wetland stewards
12.02.25Behavioural changes through wetland conservation and education are urgently required to alter the hu…
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Alternate Wetting and Drying can help revolutionize global rice farming
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
This water-conserving, emission-reducing, and cost-saving practice can help farmers, but challenges …
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Al día con el clima: Aclimate ahora disponible para Nicaragua
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Así como las amenazas derivadas de la variabilidad climática se han vuelto más evidentes, tambié…
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Her Rice Science: Meet 4 Women of IRRI and their fun stories working in science
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Gender equality
2025 marks the 10th year since the International Day of Women and Girls in Science…
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How do food and fertilizer price spikes and volatility impact Central America and the Caribbean?
10.02.25By Manuel Hernandez, Francisco Ceballos, and Maria Lucia Berrospi February 10, 2025 Recurring spi…
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The disappearing savannas: Is West Africa trading soil health for farmland?
10.02.25West Africa’s ecosystems are transforming, reshaping its vast savannas into forest islands or arab…
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Cassava seed business changes women farmers’ lives in Tanzania
10.02.25Tanzania is building sustainable cassava-seed systems for high-quality seed through cassava seed ent…
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IITA and partners launch AfPBA CRISPR Class III Training to empower Africa’s Crop Improvement Scientists
10.02.25IITA–CGIAR, a member of the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) in partnership with the Univ…
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