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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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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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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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Why food systems transformation must be a priority at Stockholm+50
11.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
In 1972, at the UN Conference on the Human Environment, the environment was recognised for…
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To have impact, climate security actions require contextualized, harmonized and collaborative intelligence
11.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the last two decades, conflicts and wars have spread and intensified. All around the…
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Vacancy: SPIA Consultant
08.07.22We seek highly skilled and motivated individuals to join us as full-time Consultant. The position w…
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Researchers plan transformation of agrifood systems in South Asia
08.07.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Representatives from CIMMYT and ICAR begin planning research for the Transforming Agrifood Systems i…
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Improving agriculture resilience through robust investment planning in the Philippines
08.07.22-
Adaptation
The Alliance and Department of Agriculture are collaborating to collect data - using a Climate…
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Excellence in Agronomy – CWANA Kick-off meeting
07.07.22CGIAR's Science Team for the Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) Initiative in Central, West Asia, and…
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Tunisian Female Farmers Drive Ag. Technology Adoption
07.07.22ICARDA is grateful to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and to…
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Support Pacific neighbours by strengthening indigenous food systems
07.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Across the island states of the Pacific, indigenous food systems have been shaped and refined…
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Cassava researchers take aim at industry challenges in Asia
07.07.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
New experiments on disease resistance, massive propagation, phenotyping and molecular diagnostics we…
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Forest conservationists converge in Olokemeji for third reforestation plantathon
06.07.22The IITA Forest Center organized the third marathon tree planting (plantathon) at Olokemeji in Jun…
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Networking to improve agriculture: IITA joins other organizations at ECOWAS-Aviana expo
06.07.22The ECOWAS-Aviana Aviv West Africa Int’l Expo 2022 took place at the University of Ibadan…
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Farmer-preferred, CBSD-resistant cassava varieties released by Central Africa breeding program
06.07.22The USAID-funded Action to Control Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) in the Democratic Republic of…
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IITA and Mastercard Foundation engage investors in agribusinesses
06.07.22IITA and Mastercard Foundation have engaged the organized private sector to create profitable partn…
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IITA donates Rapid Aflatoxin Testing Equipment to Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) and trains staff to use them
06.07.22A brief official ceremony was held on 6 May at the Conference Room of the…
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Buhler, AFEX, and FCT partner with IITA on agricultural productivity
06.07.22Following the approval of the first phase of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) Pro…
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Ask the Researchers: How does sustainable land use foster peace in Colombia?
06.07.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this series of short videos, researchers explain the core concepts of their work in…
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Transforming water research through integrated approaches
06.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
IWMI researcher Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi’s collaborative, integrative approach to research yields s…
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In the Spotlight: Md Nahiduzzaman
05.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Md Nahiduzzaman received his doctorate in fisheries science from Bangladesh Agriculture University i…
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