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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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Strengthening the role of chicken genetics for sustainable poultry development in the tropics
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Tropical Chicken Genetics Solutions (TPGS) initiative and their partners held a two-day workshop…
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Emerging Youth: Nan Win Htwe
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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Nan Win Htwe has been working in her Southern Shan State family-owned fish hatchery for…
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Emerging Youth: Saifuddin Rana
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Saifuddin Rana is a native of Bangladesh’s Chattogram. Through a platform called FishBooth, the …
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Growing confidence in the maize business
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Maize grain aggregator invests in developing storage for coping with increased grain production. (Cr…
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Academic Expertise in Impact Assessment for One CGIAR Initiatives – Reflections on the SPIA Matchmaking Event in Nairobi 2022
11.08.22The idea behind the SPIA Matchmaking event in Nairobi, that occurred July 19-21 2022, was to bring…
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Integrated Assessment of Agricultural Livelihoods Systems
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A new ICARDA/GLDC-supported MSc course for Burkina Faso. ICARDA and the CGIAR Research Program on…
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AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge Winners
10.08.22-
Big data
Back in March 2022, the CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform, the World Bank, IMPACT Lab,…
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How irrigation scaling partnerships are boosting farmers’ resilience and livelihoods
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Adaptation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Solutions have helped to strengthen demand and supply linkages along irrigated agricultural v…
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Nepal Government endorses new site-specific fertilizer recommendations for rice
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer applying urea with a spreader in a rice field. Photo Uttam Kunwar/ CIMMYT After…
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Opportunities abound for investors in Africa's low-value species market, says WorldFish
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The organization is trying to create a climate-change resilient tilapia that can withstand higher oc…
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ILRI’s Jimmy Smith and Hung Nguyen recognized for their contributions to Vietnam’s agricultural and rural development
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The Government of Vietnam has recognized Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestoc…
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IRRI Bangladesh and Seed Certification Agency train private seed companies to help boost domestic supply of quality rice seed
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A training program organized by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Banglade…
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ATA-DRC registers quick wins in three months of start-up
06.08.22After only three months of implementing the Agenda for the Transformation of Agriculture in the…
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IITA collaborates with Waste Museum in Cycle Waste Management Memoranda
06.08.22On 22 July, IITA–CGIAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the first Waste Museum in…
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SWEAN concludes empowerment program for women in agriculture
06.08.22The Support to Women Entrepreneurs in the Agrifood Sector in Nigeria (SWEAN) held its official…
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IITA Bioscience Center prepares university students for better science careers
06.08.22Research has shown that many university students in the science field across Africa lack practical…
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Ivan Buddenhagen, former IITA Director of Cereal Improvement Program, passes on
06.08.22With a deep sense of loss, IITA announces the demise of the former Director of Cereal Improvement…
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Tricot: A better method for on-farm crop testing
06.08.22The NextGen Cassava Breeding project, the IITA Cassava Breeding Unit, and Sahel Consulting organ…
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