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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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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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How ladybugs and disease-killing microbes can help reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
By Kris A.G. Wyckhuys Given that agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, measuring…
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Investigating pathogens in wildlife in Kenya to tackle neglected zoonoses
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Wild animals harbour many pathogens that can infect livestock and people. Because of this, epidemiol…
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The Kenyan dairy and poultry sectors to benefit from a new research initiative
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
The livestock sector in Kenya is vital to peoples’ livelihoods. Many households depend on the…
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CGIAR F2R-CWANA & ClimBeR Initiatives to launch in Morocco
14.05.22Rabat, Morocco, May 2022: This week sees major advances for agricultural research-for-development (R…
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MARPLE reaches South Asia
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Big data
Workshop participants stand for a group photo. (Photo: Danny Ward/John Innes Centre) On April 26–2…
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Protecting plant health for food and nutritional security
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Robust and resilient agrifood systems begin with healthy crops. Without healthy crops the food secur…
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Agrobiodiversity is key to achieving Land Degradation Neutrality targets and fighting climate change
12.05.22By Juan Lucas Restrepo, Global Director of Partnerships and Advocacy, CGIAR, and Director General of…
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A transformational breeding data management system goes online at CGIAR centers
10.05.22This story was initially published at EBS.excellenceinbreeding.org In the race to develop more nutri…
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What emerged from the online discussion on evaluating Quality of Science?
09.05.22From March 28th until April 19th, CAS/Evaluation co-hosted with the FAO Office of Evaluation a…
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IITA-supported project reduces COVID-19 impact on smallholder farmers in Tanzania
09.05.22IITA, in collaboration with the Alliance Bioversity International – CIAT, launched a project in p…
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ATA-DRC commences with huge anticipation
09.05.22The Democratic Republic of Congo Minister of Agriculture, His Excellency Désiré M’zinga Birihanz…
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Making a millionaire out of a local farmer
09.05.22Forty-five-year-old Rebecca Ezekiel is a farmer in the Song Local Government Area (LGA) of Adamawa…
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AKILIMO App plays critical role in supporting Tanzanian cassava farmers
09.05.22The Research and Innovation Coordinator at Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) Ukiriguru…
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SEEDS FOR LIFE: Climate proofing future food systems with the new ICARDA Morocco genebank
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Food security
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Nutrition
The new ICARDA Morocco genebank is supported by the Kingdom of Morocco, CGIAR Genebank Platform,…
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Exploring agricultural water challenges and opportunities in West Africa as climate change signals a new normal
09.05.22Enhancing the sector’s climate resilience through the scaling of innovative and integrated water m…
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One of the world’s worst economic collapses, now compounded by the Ukraine crisis: What’s next for Lebanon?
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Food security
High food prices and supply disruptions triggered by the Ukraine war are hitting Middle Eastern…
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Just launched: CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
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Environmental health & biodiversity
A new Research Initiative from CGIAR, which aims to re-imagine and co-create nature-positive food sy…
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Exploring the water, energy, food, and ecosystems nexus in the Ganges Basin
05.05.22Six interesting takeaways from the recent NEXUS Gains Ganges Basin Inception Workshop in Kathmandu. …
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