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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Scientists with the International Potato Center (CIP) and Uganda’s National Crops Resources Resear…

Interim Results from Netherlands-CGIAR Research Programme

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

The Netherlands-CGIAR Research Programme contributes to transformational change in agriculture aroun…

Protecting Scarce Dryland Water

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

ICARDA is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Fores…

Why worry about groundwater?

Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

Making the invisible visible: A chat with groundwater expert Dr. Karen Villholth, Principal Research…

SPIA’s workflow reaches the land of rivers

21.03.22

Gender equality

Bangladesh will be the fourth focus country of SPIA’s national data systems team. We recently…

How Global Collaboration Can Prevent Plant Disease Pandemics in Africa

21.03.22

Emerging plant diseases threaten Africa's food security, but international scientific collaboration …

High Food and Fertilizer Prices and War in Ukraine

21.03.22

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two…

Fishing boat in Timor Leste. Photo by Jennifer King

Deadlock over UN treaty for high seas keeps developing countries at a disadvantage

WorldFish

19.03.22

Biodiversity
Environmental health
Gender equality

The livelihoods of millions worldwide continue to be at risk after UN Member States failed…

New Endeavor Fast-tracks the Power of Crop Diversity for Climate Resilience

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

17.03.22

Researchers will source useful gene variations from CGIAR genebanks to develop climate-smart crops A…

Policy seminar: Repurposing agricultural subsidies can deliver better value for people, the planet, and the global economy

17.03.22

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY SWATI MALHOTRA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 For decades, governments have provided massive support to…

New CGIAR Genebank in Colombia Receives $17 Million Funding from Bezos Earth Fund

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

A success story in global cooperation, CGIAR’s network of genebanks is helping scientists climate-…

Estimating smallholder maize yields in Ethiopia with satellites and machine learning

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security

BY ZHE GUO AND BILLY BABIS Accurate and precise monitoring of agricultural output in developing…

Tick research in ILRI's biotechnology labs in Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/David White).

Experts discuss the impact of climate change on tick-borne pathogens in western, central and eastern Africa

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

Africa is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, impacting the emergence, re-emergence …

Dalson Twecan, the production specialist from IITA (In a yellow shirt) handing over the technology equipment to farmers of Awrotcek subcounty Amolatar district. Photo credit: Moureen Awori

IITA and Kilimo Trust in the fight against post-harvest losses in Northern Uganda

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Post-harvest losses stemming from poor post-harvest handling of their crops is one of the challenges…

Ground-breaking new genebank unveiled in Colombia to help climate proof food systems across the tropics

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Environmental health & biodiversity
Nutrition, health & food security

The world’s largest genetic library for beans, cassava and tropical forages has been officially op…

Researchers entering sampling data (photo credit: Zoonoses and Emerging Diseases).

A new model of pathogen transmission in developing urban landscapes