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How Water-Smart Agricultural Solutions can Help us Stall Desertification and Thrive in the Face of Future Droughts
16.06.22Join CGIAR in celebrating World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought A recent study published…
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With the right tools, tech and shared services, crop breeding will be key to solving global challenges
10.06.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Not many organizations can claim to have saved a billion lives. But CGIAR’s crop breeding…
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Safer food for everyone: How CGIAR brings food safety research to markets where the health burden is highest
06.06.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
There is no food security without food safety. But every day, billions of people eat…
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High-level Consultations Show How CGIAR Will Work With Partners to Boost Impact in Africa
25.05.22Meetings in Abidjan focused on strengthening Africa’s agricultural research and innovation in the …
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How to prevent food from becoming a weapon of war
25.05.22-
Food security
The conflict in Ukraine has exposed the fragile geopolitics that underpin global food systems, threa…
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CGIAR Report Highlights Concrete Actions to Mitigate Food Crisis due to Ukraine Conflict
23.05.22As the world comes to terms with a potential global food crisis triggered by the…
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Is agricultural adaptation on track to meet the future food production challenge?
27.06.18-
Food security
Small-scale farmers are making small changes in their agricultural practices. Is this enough to incr…
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China’s road to food security in a time of rising trade protectionism
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, DC – The rise of trade protectionism and antiglobalism around the world pose a…
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IFPRI Congratulates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro on Joint World Food Prize Award
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
June 25, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) congrat…
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Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
26.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sherpa child with lamb (photo via Pixabay/PeterColgan), London chef Jamie Oliver with rooster (via D…
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Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?
26.06.18-
Food security
Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flin…
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Restoring degraded tropical dryland in extreme conditions: the case of Sumba Island
26.06.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Restoring degraded land is a major global challenge made more urgent by a changing climate,…
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Nepal and IRRI sign work plan to reinvigorate efforts towards rice self-sufficiency
25.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Kathmandu, Nepal, 25 June 2018 — The Government of Nepal, through the Ministry of Agriculture,…
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Agroforestry systems for producing nutritious food for smallholders in Odisha, India
25.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) South Asia Regional Programme recently launched a three-year p…
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India’s northeast Bihar State gears up to approve and implement a ‘livestock master plan’
25.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Village household scenes from northeastern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Bihar is gear…
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Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever
25.06.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths…
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Innovations for sustainable rice farming: Jain Irrigation Systems joins IRRI consortium advancing direct seeded rice systems
25.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Partnership with company that pioneered modern drip irrigation in India opens new possibilities for …
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Opening the doors to food security through genomics
25.06.18-
Food security
The development of Green Super Rice, a new breed of stable, climate-smart, high-yielding varieties, …
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Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
24.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the quest to protect and restore forests advances and evolves, the age-old question of…
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Film-making farmers and the changing landscape of rice extension in Indonesia
24.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is time for farmers to take the lead in telling their stories and conceptualizing…
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How migration benefits economies and food security
22.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATE AMBLER, ALAN DE BRAUW AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT The current political climate and global refug…
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A better way for vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters and livestock herders alike—By ecologist Ian Scoones
22.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Goat herds returning home at sunset in Namunyak Conservancy of the Northern Rangelands Trust. Kenyaâ…
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FAO.org: Pollutants from agriculture a serious threat to world’s water
22.06.18-
Environmental health
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Health
New report paints a worrying picture, provides recommendations on what can be done.…
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Critically endangered mountain gorilla population grows despite threats to forest habitat
21.06.18-
Environmental health
The number of critically endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) living in the ra…
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