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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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Waste not, want not
16.10.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Recovery of safe and nutritious food from wholesale to consumer and safe redistribution for direct…
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Eradicating poverty by nurturing the youth in aquaculture technologies
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Youth form the largest segment of the population in Africa and the world at large.…
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Understanding rural women’s situations to generate gender-equitable benefits
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Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Results from a project led by the International Potato Center (CIP) to commercialize sweetpotato in…
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Collective action and perseverance pay off for women rice farmers in Madagascar
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Modernization of agriculture requires farmers to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and sustain the pr…
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CIMMYT delivers seed to Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Ambassador of Mexico to Norway, Ulises Canchola Gutiérrez, delivered a deposit from the Interna…
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Connecting the dots between crises
14.10.22-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Matthew McCartney and Claudia Ringler What do the floods in Pakistan, drought in the…
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Healthier mangroves, more fish
14.10.22How conserving these critical ecosystems can boost food security and nutrition Mangroves are finally…
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CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform launched at GENDER Science Exchange
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Headlining the CGIAR GENDER Science Exchange this week (October 12-14) was the relaunch of the…
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Shakuntala Thilsted receives award from Sylhet Agricultural University
14.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, global lead for nutrition and public health at WorldFish and the 202…
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Exploring the potential for scaling nutritious cereal-based foods
13.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Agrifood systems contribute to at least 12 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To…
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International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agriculture
13.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agr…
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Red de investigación agrícola más grande del mundo lanza iniciativas para beneficiar a millones de personas en Perú
13.10.22Ministra de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego Patricia Ocampo Escalante aplaude el apoyo internacional Lima…
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The critical role of smallholder farmers of the Eastern Gangetic Plains in the global food chain
13.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) are vulnerable to climate change and face tremendous challenges, i…
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Initiatives of World’s Biggest Agricultural Research Network to Benefit Millions in Peru
13.10.22Minister of Agricultural Development and Irrigation, Patricia Ocampo, applauds international support…
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Initiatives of world’s biggest agricultural research network to benefit millions in Peru
12.10.22The post Initiatives of world’s biggest agricultural research network to benefit millions in Peru …
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Adopting new cassava genotypes in gari production
12.10.22Cassava, a perennial woody shrub with an edible root, is one of IITA–CGIAR’s mandate crops and…
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IFAD commends IITA-led Zero Hunger Initiative’s mid-term successes
12.10.22The IITA-led Zero Hunger Initiative (ZHI), funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Devel…
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IITA gender team trains plant breeders on gender-responsive breeding
12.10.22As part of activities under the Accelerated Breeding (ABI) and Market Intelligence and Product Profi…
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