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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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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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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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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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Private-sector partners seek IITA collaboration on extended agricultural grants
25.11.22IITA–CGIAR considers the private sector a major stakeholder in the development of Africa’s agri…
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IITA Forest Center builds staff capacity in eco-tourism and hospitality management
25.11.22The IITA Ibadan campus is fast becoming a leading eco-tourism hub in Nigeria. Beyond producing res…
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DG Sanginga celebrates 11 years of transforming African agriculture at the helm of IITA
25.11.22Dr Nteranya Sanginga became the Director General at IITA–CGIAR on 1 November 2011. During his …
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A real-time livestock water source monitoring and risk management system project in Ethiopia
25.11.22-
Adaptation
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Food security
By Alemayehu Sintayehu The livestock sector contributes about 36% to the Ethiopian agricultural GDP …
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IITA to partner with CPTI on technology transfer
25.11.22IITA–CGIAR recognizes the importance of agriculture in Africa’s development; hence, it is open …
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CGIAR discusses One Health approach as key to improved planetary health
25.11.22CGIAR organized a webinar to discuss One Health. IITA–CGIAR Associate Scientist Titilayo Falade…
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Leading IITA conservationist boosts urban ecology research in Africa
25.11.22Urbanization converts natural areas into built environments, and scientists are keenly investigating…
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IITA and partners organize SISCA baseline study restitution workshop in Cameroon
25.11.22From 8 to 10 November, IITA–CGIAR organized a workshop to validate the results of the diagnostic…
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Young CIMMYT scientist receives 2022 Japan Award for global research to combat wheat aphids
24.11.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
International science to save wheat — a crucial food grain for 2.5 billion of the…
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CGIAR Appoints Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda as System Board Chair, Effective January 2023
24.11.22Following the decision of Marco Ferroni to retire and step down from his position as…
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Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems Initiative officially launched in Bangladesh
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Gender equality
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Social inclusion
On 16 November 2022, CGIAR researchers in collaboration with the National Agricultural Research and …
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NEXUS solutions are central to climate resilience: Key messages and highlights from COP27
24.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Claudia Ringler, Mohsin Hafeez and Santosh Nepal Now that the United Nations Climate Change…
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New TRANSITONS program tackles three roadblocks to scale up agroecology
24.11.22Empowering farmers is critical across all TRANSITONS projects, speakers say Agroecology, as an appro…
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Press Release: Kenya National Policy Dialogue by CGIAR’s Ukama Ustawi Initiative targets climate-resilient agriculture and more
23.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Bridging knowledge and coordination gaps for resilient maize production and a better enabling enviro…
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Press Release: CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator Programme will scale-out climate-smart innovations in agrifood systems in East and Southern Africa
23.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition
NAIROBI, November 23, 2022 — The underlying reasons for poor agricultural performance in climate-c…
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Long road ahead to translate NBS into practice
23.11.22Successful Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are made in the details Nature-based solutions (NBS) have qu…
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Crown-of-thorns seastar named after WorldFish scientist
23.11.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
A crown-of-thorns seastar native to the Red Sea was this week named after WorldFish’s John…
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Del microscopio a la huerta: La investigación científica y su contribución a la agricultura familiar y al emprendimiento rural
22.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Por Joaquín Lozano, Director para América Latina y el Caribe, CGIAR Este texto refleja algunos…
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