News
Featured news
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more
Filters
-
No end in sight yet for the global food price crisis
27.09.22-
Food security
No end in sight yet for the global food price crisis by Joseph Glauber, Manuel Hernández, David…
Read more -
-
Strengthening the voices of small-scale fishers for change
27.09.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Coastal small-scale fisheries provide food, nutrition and a way of life for millions of women…
Read more -
-
As crises hit, staying the course for sustainable palm oil
27.09.22Climate, food, and energy challenges for ‘greening’ the critical commodity Most global consumers…
Read more -
SHiFT formalizes collaboration with partners in Viet Nam
26.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
The new CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (…
Read more -
-
Weather data and crop disease simulations can power predictions of wheat blast outbreaks, new study shows
26.09.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Cutting-edge models for crops and crop diseases, boosted by high-resolution climate datasets, could …
Read more -
-
ICARDA AND ARC-EGYPT 2022 ANNUAL PLANNING MEETING
26.09.22Each year, the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) in Egypt and ICARDA delegations meet to assess…
Read more -
The ISDC Science Forum Returns
24.09.22Innovation is a popular term today within and outside CGIAR that has few synonyms. But…
Read more -
A Livelihood Success Story: Kenyan Farmer Coop Taps Iron Beans for Increased Incomes
23.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
The members of the Abossi Top Hill cooperative farming society in Kenya’s Bomet County have…
Read more -
-
Cameroon seeks to strengthen ties with IITA in cassava production
23.09.22His Excellency Gabriel Mbairobe, Hon Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER) from t…
Read more -
IITA Forest Center expands its species conservation bank
23.09.22On 25 August, IITA Forest Center contributed to ecosystem restoration in a tree planting exercise…
Read more -
IITA trains science messengers to promote agricultural research
23.09.22In a virtual seminar organized by IITA–CGIAR on 12 September, Program Manager of Biotech and Gen…
Read more -
NAGGW team to collaborate with IITA on mandate crops
23.09.22The Executive Director, National Agency for the Great Green Walls (NAGGW), Dr Yusuf Bukar, visited …
Read more -
Bunchy top disease emerges as new threat to East African bananas
23.09.22Africa’s leading banana production region is threatened by the invasive spread of the banana bunc…
Read more -
Tanzanian high school students request agricultural training from IITA
23.09.22“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn…
Read more -
IITA’s research intervention transforming Rwandan agriculture
23.09.22IITA–CGIAR in Rwanda contributes to agriculture technology through innovation generation in its…
Read more -
Muhogo Bora project validates socially inclusive model for selecting cassava seed entrepreneurs in Tanzania
23.09.22Twenty-nine farmers, extension agents, food processors, and food entrepreneurs participated in a tra…
Read more -
PICAGL-supported NABANA cassava variety at the heart of the Luhwindja agricultural fair
23.09.22The IITA–CGIAR Projet Intégré des Grand Lacs (PICAGL) participated in the agricultural fair or…
Read more -
IITA scientists train WFP Kano third-party warehouse managers on grain management best practices
23.09.22IITA–CGIAR and the World Food Program (WFP), Kano, conducted grain management and hermetic storag…
Read more