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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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Burkina Faso proposes partnership with IITA for youth and women’s engagement in agribusiness
12.10.22A delegation from the Embassy of Burkina Faso in Nigeria, led by the country’s Ambassador…
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LAPO to enhance its CSR through tree planting partnership with IITA
12.10.22Three delegates from LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited visited IITA–CGIAR on 22 September. Their go…
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Elite maize seeds handed over to seed sector stakeholders in Nepal
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Nutrition, health & food security
Maize is Nepal’s second most important crop for food security. Although the country’s diverse ec…
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Podcast: Facing a new normal for agricultural extension in Bicol Region, Philippines
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Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Climate change means increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather conditions, with farmers some of…
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Peatland ‘core domain sets’ to streamline measurement and reporting
12.10.22Standards proposed for better data synthesis and less research waste The world’s peatlands are vit…
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Forging collaborative ties from south to south
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Nutrition, health & food security
More than 900 experts from 67 countries gathered for the Second International Wheat Congress, which…
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Scaling Through the Value Chain: India’s Arti Roller Flour Launches Zinc-Enriched Wheat Product
11.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
In a significant step toward sustainably scaling biofortified crops and foods in India, a prominent…
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From gray infrastructure to nexus planning
11.10.22Systems thinking is in the air. There’s a lot of talk about ‘breaking down silos’…
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An ancient water management system in Sri Lanka is being revived - here’s why
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Several centuries ago, as populations expanded into the dry zone of Sri Lanka, efficient…
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Indonesia G20 Presidency CGIAR at the G20 Global Forum on Digital Agriculture Transformation in Accelerating Women and Youth Entrepreneurship
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Under its G20 Presidency, the Government of Indonesia organized the Global Forum of the…
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Is uptake of rust-resistant wheat linked to gender equality?
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Farmers, development practitioners and scientists gathered at Tropentag 2022 between September 14-…
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CIMMYT Annual Report 2021 launched
10.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Today, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is excited to share with you…
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Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia: Benefiting aquatic food producers in the past, present and future
10.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nile tilapia is one of the major aquaculture species in the world, eclipsed only by grass…
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How to preserve forest biodiversity without losing livelihoods
08.10.22FAO-CIFOR study explores mainstreaming biodiversity into policies, strategies and practice Loss of f…
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Stepping up for South Asian women
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Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Women play an integral role in all stages of agrifood systems, yet their unpaid labor…
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In a West African wildlife corridor, landscape actors unite around good governance
07.10.22COLANDS stakeholder workshop clears pathways for a resilient, multifunctional landscape The Western …
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Partnerships crucial for protecting plant health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR research centers involved in the OneCGIAR Plant Health Initiative joined forces at the Interna…
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Wild, Edible, and Nutritious! Research and recipes reveal the benefits of regional Turkish plants
06.10.22-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Visit any of Türkiye’s regions and you will find diverse plants growing in uncultivated areas…
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