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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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
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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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Seed Equal training: Improving seed delivery using the Seed Tracker app
06.11.23A training workshop of “Vegetatively Propagated Crops (VPCs) Seed Stakeholders” on accessing see…
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New partnership to deliver improved farm productivity from soil health and fertility
06.11.23IITA–CGIAR and OCP Africa have signed a 5-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) to contribute …
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IITA and partners collaborate to establish a One CGIAR Capacity Development Hub
06.11.23In the global efforts to combat hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation in Africa, IITA stand…
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IITA and UM6P collaborate to ensure sustainable agriculture in Africa via research
06.11.23IITA–CGIAR, one of Africa’s largest cutting-edge research institutes, recently signed a collabor…
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A shared commitment to food security and youth employment in Mali
01.11.23On 3 October, Mali’s new Minister of Agriculture, Lassine Dembélé, met with IITA–CGIAR Sahel…
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Zero Hunger Project empowers women and differently abled people in Ebonyi State on rice value addition
01.11.23The Zero Hunger Project trained 3,347 farmers, processors, and agripreneurs (including differently a…
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Strengthening Tanzania’s National Extension System through gender and social inclusion in cassava seed systems
01.11.23In Tanzania’s Tabora Region, IITA Gender Research Fellow (Cassava) Millicent Liani organized a cap…
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Zero Hunger Project launches in Togo to boost food and nutrition security
01.11.23The Agricultural Transformation in the Nigerian Federal States and Togolese Regions Towards Achievin…
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IITA-CGIAR emphasizes innovations for women and youths at the 2023 FAO science and innovation forum
01.11.23The role of women and youth in the collective efforts to bolster Africa’s agrifood systems…
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Insect4feed: A sustainable solution for livestock feed
01.11.23On 9 October, the IITA Business Incubation Platform (BIP), with the Dutch government and other…
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Exploring partnerships to improve Nigeria’s economy
01.11.23As part of IITA–CGIAR efforts to ensure that Africa is food secure, delegates from Raedial Hold…
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Research: Achieving a socially inclusive and sustainable commercialized cassava seed system in Tanzania
01.11.23Cassava is sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) second most important staple food crop after maize. It is…
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Seedling propagators shift to sowing trays to improve yields
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The system has shorter growing seasons and survival rate, improved crop uniformity, and more accurat…
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Scaling innovations towards transforming food systems in Africa
24.10.23International research centers and local businesses showcase local innovations and highlight partner…
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CGIAR and partner create guidelines to enhance gender transformative change
16.10.23In the food security, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture space, the Joint Programme on Gender Tr…
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Farmers interact and collaborate at Green Field Day 2023
16.10.23In an ongoing effort to empower farmers and advance climate-smart and good agricultural practices (G…
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Rwandan cassava seed inspection and certification capacity boosted by LAMP technology donation
16.10.23In a significant stride towards bolstering Rwanda’s cassava farming sector, IITA–CGIAR handed …
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IITA and NASC: Collaborative efforts at building capacity
16.10.23IITA–CGIAR and the National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) are continuing their collaboration …
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