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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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IITA improving maize genotyping workflow in developing countries
02.10.22With growing concerns around food and nutrition security globally due to the Ukraine−Russia war, t…
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GSN to reach wider audience with training opportunities
02.10.22During its virtual 2022 third quarter meeting on 16 September, the IITA Gender Science Network (GS…
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IITA hosts expert workshop on trade, innovation, and entrepreneurship for improved FNSSA
02.10.22Under the Long-term EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and S…
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Over 50 scientists and science communicators trained to communicate on genome editing
02.10.22The Alliance for Science (AFS), in conjunction with the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (O…
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SISCA analyzes results of inventory of cassava and maize seed sectors in DRC
02.10.22Stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) organized a workshop to analyze the results…
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The right time for the right place
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Wheat is a strategically important crop for Afghanistan because as a major source of nutrition…
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Cluster-based Farmer Field School in the polders of the coastal zone of Bangladesh: improving effectiveness of extension approach
30.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Manoranjan Kumar Mondal, Mary Ann Batas, Muhammad Humayoun Kabir, and Sudhir Yadav Bangladesh has…
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Launch of the National Agriculture Innovation and Technology Policy (NATIP) 2022-2027 (Nigeria)
29.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
26 August 2022 marked an important day for the Nigerian agricultural sector as the Federal…
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The quest for CGIAR innovations to reduce food system carbon footprints on a global scale
29.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Ma. Eliza Villarino and Augusto Castro Nunez The Low-Emission Food Systems Initiative Mitigate+…
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Integrated approaches needed to address declining freshwater storage
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Much more work is needed to better understand and address our planet’s dwindling freshwater storag…
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Special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights CIMMYT’s work on gender inclusivity
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Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
A new special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights nine influential papers published i…
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Making our knowledge travel – A new African Union, CAADP-XP4, and CGIAR Partnership Framework for Knowledge Management
28.09.22Key African institutions and CGIAR have drafted a new agriculture-for-development knowledge manageme…
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CGIAR Initiative to Help Develop Low-Emission Food Systems, Key to Meeting Global Climate Targets
28.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The CGIAR Research Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems, Mitigate+, will help low- and middle-inc…
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Bridging data gaps in pastoral areas in Kenya through digital connectivity
28.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Pastoralist communities in northern Kenya are among the most neglected people in the country, suffer…
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Radical transformation essential to secure food systems resilience for Africa’s future
28.09.22GLF Africa explored African solutions to the global food crisis Food systems in Africa, from…
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Nature Asia: Forecasting a hot, dry future
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the driest region in the world and…
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Tribune: Groundwater recharge tech ultimate solution to urban flooding: experts
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
The country’s experts cognisant to the issue have forcefully suggested on Monday to adopt groundwa…
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The Power of Orange: Catalyzing Delivery of Vitamin A Maize in Zambia
27.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
A brief from the CGIAR’s HarvestPlus biofortification program describes how HarvestPlus has worked…
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