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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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Biodiversity
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Food security
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-
Big data
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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Solving Global Climate and Nutrition Challenges Depends on Accelerated Crop Breeding
05.09.22Humanity’s future is intertwined with the earth’s plants. We need plants for livelihoods, for me…
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Celebrating 25 years of bean research in Africa
05.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Kigali, 5 September 2022 - For 25 years, the Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) has…
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Exploring measures to curb the spread of African swine fever in northeast India
05.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Experts in India met at a recent regional workshop held on 8 July 2022 in…
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Probing sustainable agromet services and outcomes on agriculture in Laos
04.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In pursuit of adapting to climate change, climate services for agriculture are being introduced to…
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New study shows impact of systematizing crop breeding schemes
04.09.22A new study finds tremendous potential for continuous improvement and mathematical methods to improv…
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Wild foods found to be widely collected across all agro-ecological zones of Zambia
02.09.22Study shows high volumes of wild food collection across rural households New research in Zambia…
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CGIAR Scientist Receives the 2022 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application
01.09.22Dr. Mahalingam Govindaraj explains how CGIAR helped him to develop the ground-breaking work which le…
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Excellence in Agronomy Initiative commences in Africa
01.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Excellence in Agronomy for Sustainable Intensification and Climate Change Adaptation Initiative …
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To ease the world food crisis, focus resources on women and girls
01.09.22-
Gender equality
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Social inclusion
Learn from past crises to protect women and girls from hardship and combat the food…
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IWMI supporting the government of Pakistan to deal with unprecedented floods
01.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Lahore, 29th August 2022 The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is supporting the Gov…
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Timor-Leste Prime Minister advocates for aquaculture development at tilapia harvesting ceremony
01.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On a sunny day in Leohitu, Timor-Leste, fish farmer Marcos Ramos stood up to share his aquacultur…
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African Development Bank approves phase II of TAAT programme
31.08.22The African Development Bank has approved the commencement of phase two of the Technologies for A…
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TAAT records transformational breakthroughs in African agriculture as Phase I ends
31.08.22Stakeholders in African agriculture have hailed the string of remarkable achievements recorded by it…
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IITA Goodwill Ambassador Olusegun Obasanjo discusses agricultural transformation and security with DRC President Félix Tshisekedi
31.08.22Former Nigerian President and IITA–CGIAR Goodwill Ambassador, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, recently …
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Orphan legumes: Key to food security in Africa
31.08.22Africa’s growing population, expected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050, is taking its toll on…
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STEP targets Rwandan expansion
31.08.22In line with its founding objectives, the Start Them Early Program (STEP) has continued to create …
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Malinyi District Commissioner applauds IITA for empowering youth in agribusiness in Tanzania
31.08.22Malinyi District Commissioner Mathayo Maselle has praised IITA for providing youth with opportunit…
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Researchers address challenges facing Zambia’s aquaculture value chain
31.08.22As the global population increases, leading to more consumption of animal protein, aquaculture is ke…
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