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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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IITA and partners engages fabricators in Oyo State
07.06.22IITA, in partnership with the Innovation Lab for Policy Leadership in Agriculture and Food Securit…
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Halleluya Farm Estate to scale-up crop production through IITA’s expertise
07.06.22On 24 May, the Halleluya Techno-based Agro Farm Estate team visited IITA. The team, which launched…
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Genome editing: New breeding tool with potential to sustain agriculture in Africa
07.06.22Climate change affects the environment extensively in socioeconomic and related sectors, including a…
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IITA and partners launch Postharvest Reduction Project
07.06.22IITA recently launched a project on reducing postharvest losses across the Vitamin A cassava (VAC) …
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IITA and Ogun State Ministry of Agriculture, Nigeria, to co-develop a digital agriculture platform
07.06.22IITA and the Ogun Ministry of Agriculture met recently to discuss a #digital agriculture project t…
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Gender research activities in IITA contribute to African rural development
07.06.22IITA seeks to carry out cutting-edge gender research in agriculture. During a seminar on 13 May,…
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Newly-identified rice varieties could deliver genetic gain and farm productivity in India
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers in India have identified new rice varieties that could adapt to specific requirements of…
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IITA and DG Sanginga receive excellence awards from Circularity Africa
07.06.22The Interconnections for Making Africa Great Empowered and Sustainable (IMAGES) Initiative, in col…
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Partnerships: IITA visits NIHORT to strengthen collaboration
07.06.22As part of IITA’s activities in ensuring good collaboration with partners, Kenton Dashiell, IITA…
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Fostering the adoption of sustainable rice straw innovations in Vietnam through private sector engagement
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Loc Troi Agricultural Research Institute si…
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IITA Forest Center wins AFR100 grant to plant trees
07.06.22The TerraFund for AFR100 has awarded the IITA Forest Center another grant to reforest 300 hectare…
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana: Disclosure Notice for Labor Management Procedures
07.06.22Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project being implemented in…
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Protecting and restoring our oceans for future generations
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Environmental health & biodiversity
The ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface. It is central to the production…
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Examining patterns and drivers of catch in the Solomon Islands for better fisheries management
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While coastal fisheries are vital to life and livelihoods in the Pacific, they are notoriously…
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Improving child nutrition in Bangladesh through cooking demonstrations
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Nutrition, health & food security
WorldFish organized cooking demonstrations in 15 villages in the Rajshahi and Rangpur districts – …
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WorldFish’s Fish for Africa Innovation Hub serves as a one-stop destination for the region
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Egypt aims to develop its aquatic foods sector to fulfill the food and nutrition needs…
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The vital roles of aquatic foods in the global food system
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Though capture fisheries constitute the largest wild-food resource, providing a critical nutrient-ri…
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New project to deploy climate information services to African fish farmers
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
While climate change threatens food systems globally, African agriculture is particularly susceptibl…
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