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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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
16.05.25-
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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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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Hello Tractor and agricultural innovation
04.01.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For small-scale farmers, mechanization and other appropriate technologies have a big impact in agric…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
04.01.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
04.01.19-
Biodiversity
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ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Pakistan wheat seed makeover: More productive, resilient varieties for thousands of farmers
13.12.18-
Food security
Nearly 3,000 smallholder wheat farmers throughout Pakistan will begin to sow seed of newer, high-yie…
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Breaking Ground: Tek Sapkota finds ways to reduce emissions from agriculture without compromising food security
13.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As the world population increases, so does the need for food. “We need to produce more…
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A wheat self-sufficiency roadmap for Ethiopia’s future
05.12.18-
Food security
Despite a record harvest of 4.6 million metric tons in 2017, Ethiopia imported 1.5 million…
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New Soil Intelligence System for India provides high-quality data using modern analytics
04.12.18-
Big data
The new Soil Intelligence System (SIS) for India will help the states of Andhra Pradesh,…
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CIMMYT drought tolerant maize: A key innovation for millions of farmers, says FAO
03.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As climate experts forecast another climate-warming El Nino in early 2019, maize varieties develope…
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West Bengal agri-entrepreneur a role model for farmers in her community
29.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Hosneara Bibi is a farmer in the village of West Ghughumari, in the Cooch Behar…
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New study: India could cut nearly 18% of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions through cost-saving farming practices
26.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
India could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by almost 18 percent through the…
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Key to a healthy, sustainable world: Partnership and collaboration in agriculture
16.11.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Is the world prepared to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050? What role do…
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Inspiring millennials to focus on food security: The power of mentorship
12.11.18-
Food security
Plant Microbiologist Tessa Mahmoudi, a 2012 World Food Prize’s Borlaug-Ruan summer intern, says h…
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Climate change could mean beer shortages on tap
08.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As the impact of climate change on food staples becomes more apparent, scientists with the Internat…
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To feed the world, take the science to the farmer
25.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
At the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue, experts discussed how to build sustainable seed systems and the…
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‘Merry-go-round’ groups spin Kenyan women farmers to success
22.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Last month’s report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change highlights wor…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Blue maize opportunities for Mexican farmers
22.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Blue maize is a ubiquitous aspect of Mexico’s food culture, especially in the central highlands.…
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Mutating diseases drive wheat variety turnover in Ethiopia, new study shows
05.07.18Rapidly emerging and evolving races of wheat stem rust and stripe rust disease—the crop’s deadli…
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CIMMYT projects working to enhance business agility of South Asian seed companies
18.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The seed industry in Nepal, as in most developing countries, is still emerging and largely…
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