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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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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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Supporting Nepal’s hill farmers to enhance their livelihoods through mixed farming
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Social inclusion
The hilly region of Nepal faces low productivity issues in the mixed farming system due…
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CGIAR’s SAPLING Initiative targets Uganda’s pig and cattle sectors to expand benefits for farmers
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR’s SAPLING Initiative targets Uganda’s pig and cattle sectors to expand benefits for farmer…
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Home gardens are “living genebanks” that sustain livelihoods in Central Asia
22.08.22Central Asia is the point of origin for a wide diversity of fruit and nut…
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TAAT wins National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award
20.08.22America’s largest organization of journalists and media professionals of colour has named the Afr…
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TAAT gets $27 million boost for emergency production of 120 million tonnes of food
20.08.22The African Development Bank is set to release an additional $27.41 million to implement Phase…
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In DRC, Training Government Staff Paves Way for Scaling of Biofortified Crops
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched a major initiative to…
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Boosting abilities to develop nutritious sweetpotatoes for Central Americans
19.08.22An estimated two billion people suffer undernourishment, or micronutrient deficiencies, which is why…
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How research is helping to transform food environments in Kenya
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
Our research team in Kenya has explored approaches in recent years including: Understanding people's…
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G20 Indonesia 2022, Technical Workshop on Climate Change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of the Indonesian G20 Presidency, the Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) of…
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IAA, CADL Partnership: Second phase of input financing for farmers begins
18.08.22In continuation of input financing for 259 maize and rice farmers in Gombi and Song…
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IITA scientists reveal strategy to increase cowpea yield and protein content
18.08.22Cowpea, one of IITA mandate crops, is an important source of protein and livelihood for many peopl…
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MEDA partners with IITA to improve food systems
18.08.22The Senior Regional Director of Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Dr Pierre Kadet,…
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IITA Molecular Geneticist’s research gains media attention
18.08.22Following her emergence as the 2022 winner of the prestigious Illumina Agricultural Greater Good I…
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CGIAR Global Director for Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization tours IITA business and production facilities
18.08.22The CGIAR Global Director for Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization, Andre Zandstra, in his …
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STEP hosts CGIAR Global Director at Fasola agribusiness facility
18.08.22Andre Zandstra, Global Director, Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization at the CGIAR System …
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Celebrating International Youth Day and ten years of the youth agripreneur movement
18.08.22The IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) is recognized as one of the pioneer models for youth engagement …
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PAULESI students visit IITA breeding program
18.08.22Building the capacities of the younger generation would translate into immediate and long-term goal …
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Partner organizations benefit from IITA-PDAU capacity-building activities
18.08.22The IITA–CGIAR Project Development and Administration Unit (PDAU) organized a 3-day workshop on …
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