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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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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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"Our seeds could start the next Green Revolution."
30.05.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This year’s World Biodiversity Day holds a particular significance for us at ICARDA. Just days…
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Bees: An active source of food and livelihood for man
30.05.22Bees are one of the most hard-working creatures on earth. Bees do so much for…
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Banana improvement project meets to celebrate the first new cooking Banana varieties in Tanzania
30.05.22-
Health
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Nutrition
Arusha, Tanzania, 23 May 2022. After a two-year lockdown, an international team of banana researche…
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Advancing Food Systems Transformation in Kenya
27.05.22In a complicated and uncertain world, identifying strategies for building policy coherence and respo…
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Study of Long-Term and Large-Scale Impacts of Improved Lentil Varieties Approved for SPIA Funding
27.05.22SPIA has approved funding for a study of long-term and large-scale impacts of improved lentil…
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Diagram links physiological traits of wheat for yield potential
25.05.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
A generalized wiring diagram for wheat, as proposed by the authors. The diagram depicts the…
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High-level Consultations Show How CGIAR Will Work With Partners to Boost Impact in Africa
25.05.22Meetings in Abidjan focused on strengthening Africa’s agricultural research and innovation in the …
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From torrents to trickles: Managing the future of irrigation
24.05.22From torrents to trickles: Managing the future of irrigation May 24, 2022 Claudia Ringler Globally,…
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Improving fruit and vegetable consumption will require a holistic approach
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
“Eat more fruit and vegetables.” This is a common refrain, spoken by everyone from doctors…
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Arsenic risk to humans: How crops, trade, and groundwater contribute
23.05.22The study represents a first step towards improving our collective understanding of the magnitude of…
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Wheat versus heat
20.05.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Wheat leaves showing symptoms of heat stress. (Photo: CIMMYT) Across South Asia, including major whe…
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STIHL and C.WOERMANN partner with IITA to enhance smallholder farmers’ productivity through agricultural mechanization
20.05.22STIHL, a company specializing in agricultural equipment production for smallholder farmers, is worki…
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Cuso and IITA to address climate change in Nigeria
20.05.22Danny Pelletier, Key Program Officer for Cuso International, visited IITA headquarters, with Jame…
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Expertise Fused with Context: Strengthening Bibliometric Recommendations Through Co-Design
20.05.22Bibliometrics is the use of statistical methods to analyze books, articles, and other publications, …
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IRRI overcomes barriers and bottlenecks towards a rice breeding revolution
19.05.22Public breeding is undergoing a slow transformation as it adopts better, faster, more modern technol…
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Pollinator protection for everyone
19.05.22CARDA’s Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP) project is made possible through the generous s…
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Vegetable oil prices soar, far outstripping other food inflation (Washington Post)
19.05.22-
Food security
Vegetable oil prices soar, far outstripping other food inflation (Washington Post) Washington Post …
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War and weather sent food prices soaring. Now, China’s harvest is uncertain (New York Times)
18.05.22-
Food security
War and weather sent food prices soaring. Now, China’s harvest is uncertain (New York Times)…
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