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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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Scaling innovations towards transforming food systems in Africa
24.10.23International research centers and local businesses showcase local innovations and highlight partner…
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CGIAR and partner create guidelines to enhance gender transformative change
16.10.23In the food security, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture space, the Joint Programme on Gender Tr…
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Farmers interact and collaborate at Green Field Day 2023
16.10.23In an ongoing effort to empower farmers and advance climate-smart and good agricultural practices (G…
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Rwandan cassava seed inspection and certification capacity boosted by LAMP technology donation
16.10.23In a significant stride towards bolstering Rwanda’s cassava farming sector, IITA–CGIAR handed …
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IITA and NASC: Collaborative efforts at building capacity
16.10.23IITA–CGIAR and the National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) are continuing their collaboration …
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UM6P and CGIAR Join Forces for Sustainable Development of Agriculture and the Environment in Africa
13.10.23October 12, 2023, Benguerir, Morocco – The Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and CGIAR, …
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MTU explores agriculture and circular economy collaboration with IITA
09.10.23A delegation from the Mountain Top University (MTU) paid an exploratory visit to IITA–CGIAR he…
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Dutch Ambassador visits IITA to support Youth in Agribusiness
09.10.23Following the recent partnership between IITA–CGIAR and the government of the Netherlands for th…
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IITA increases graduates’ contribution to Biotechnology
09.10.23Biotechnology is developing rapidly with enormous potential to address global concerns, including fo…
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PROSSIVA takes field trials to rural areas in Nigeria
09.10.23To advance agriculture and improve food security in Nigeria, IITA–CGIAR continues its field demo…
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Africa Climate Summit outlines agricultural development strategy to mitigate the pending food crisis
08.10.23Following the recent African Food Summit in Nairobi, CGTN Africa interviewed Dr Enock Chikava, t…
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ATAC project trains Ministries of research and agriculture agents on seed production techniques
08.10.23A training on seed production techniques, management of diseases, pests, and weeds of cassava, corn,…
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Study unveils Cas-CLOVER as a highly efficient genome editing technology in banana
08.10.23In a landmark development for agricultural biotechnology, a pioneering study conducted by the Biotec…
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Africa’s food security: Empowering smallholder farmers to boost maize productivity
08.10.23Despite being Africa’s most important crop, providing about 30% of energy intake across the contin…
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Young STEM scientists from IITA featured in the DW News documentary
08.10.23DW News program, “The 77 Percent,” recently featured young scientists from the IITA–CGIAR Ke…
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GAIN applauds IITA for improved farmer knowledge of orange-fleshed sweet potato
08.10.23A Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) team recently visited a farmer-led demonstration p…
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Introducing women to new seed propagation method in yam farming
08.10.23In rural Nigeria, where yam farming is a way of life, a group of women…
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SISCA highlights seed regulation merits in DRC
08.10.23Following the recommendations from previous training on Seed Business, IITA–CGIAR, through its pr…
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