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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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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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Call for cases: Integrating gender into breeding objectives and decisions - what works, where and why?
25.08.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Do you know of a plant breeding effort that is trying to have more gender…
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Roundtable Discussion on Food Security in Nigeria with US Ambassador to Nigeria
25.08.22On August 3, 2022, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, invited food security…
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Text reminders encourage more women to seek family planning services: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
24.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Health
BY JESSICA LEIGHT AND KYLE PICO Modern contraception and family planning have substantial health be…
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In Ethiopia, local challenges inform national action for climate-smart agriculture
24.08.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A recent workshop in Ethiopia brought together researchers from the Ethiopia Institute of Agricultur…
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Namukolo Covic Appointed Regional Director, East & Southern Africa, Amid Boost to Regional Leadership
24.08.22Dr. Namukolo Covic, ILRI Director General’s representative to Ethiopia and CGIAR Country Convenor,…
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Government of Assam and IRRI extend APART collaboration
24.08.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS) Society, Government of Assam, has s…
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Ask the Researchers: From land sparing to land sharing, how do conservation interventions benefit small-scale farmers?
24.08.22A recent study published in People and Nature focuses on how land use approaches impact human…
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In Zambia, Strengthening Food and Nutrition Security for Refugees and Host Communities
23.08.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A HarvestPlus partnership in Zambia is supporting refugees and their host communities with humanitar…
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USAID-AfricaRice project sets the stage for a resilient, vibrant seed industry in Senegal
23.08.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
An innovative public-private partnership-based project, led by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) w…
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Combatting the fertilizer crisis – an ICARDA Q&A
23.08.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Urea, phosphates, potash, nitrates, ammonia…while fertilizers might not be recognized by all, they…
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WorldFish renews Memorandums of Understanding with top research universities in Malaysia
23.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
WorldFish signed today Memorandums of Understanding with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Univers…
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Supporting Nepal’s hill farmers to enhance their livelihoods through mixed farming
22.08.22-
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
22.08.22-
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
19.08.22-
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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