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Four Essential Podcasts Featuring Dr. Ismahane Elouafi: Science, Systems, and the Future of Food
29.04.25In an era marked by mounting crises—climate extremes, deepening inequality, and growing food insec…
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The Road to Ending Malnutrition: How the Paris N4G Summit Sparked a Global Call to Action
17.04.25The Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit brought global leaders and organizations together in a…
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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Two years on, resilience innovations help food supply chains overcome COVID-19 disruptions
23.02.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdow…
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IITA partners WUR to improve food systems
21.02.22Food systems refer to the organization of the production, processing, distribution, consumption of f…
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IITA Director for Eastern Africa, Leena Tripathi, joins the Advisory Board of Alliance for Science
21.02.22The IITA Director for Eastern Africa hub and Biotechnology Leader, Leena Tripathi, has been appoi…
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IITA Y-SWEP biogas technology: A sustainable energy solution and gateway to more research
21.02.22IITA has taken another step in implementing a circular economy within the Institute by launching tw…
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Special Envoy highlights DRC’s agriculture plan during visit to IITA Goodwill Ambassador and former Nigerian President
21.02.22During his extended visit to the IITA headquarters in Ibadan, Special Envoy to the Democratic Repu…
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2021 Dry Season Rice Farming: IITA-NIAA supports 200 rice farmers with inputs
21.02.22The USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity in Yola, Adamawa State, on …
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STEP holds Agri-competition to attract young students to agriculture
21.02.22The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project, implemented by IITA in partnership with Maste…
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Top 10 gender research reads from 2021
18.02.22-
Gender equality
In our series of recommended reading lists, gender experts provide starting points for researchers, …
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CGIAR Mourns Barbara H. Wells, Leading Expert in Genetic Innovation, Agriculture, and Forestry Research
17.02.22In a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, Dr. Wells helped improve the health…
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Towards more effective and resilient seed value chains for grain legumes and dryland cereals
17.02.22Background: a search for more effective and resilient seed value chains What does it take…
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Targeting a neglected threat to potato production in Africa
14.02.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With an ability to produce more food per hectare than most crops, the potato has…
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Experts call for equitable food system transformation to tackle global health challenges of the 21st century
12.02.22-
Food security
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Health
Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate…
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How Gender Equality Can Transform Food Systems and Protect Us From Climate Change Disasters
11.02.22Enabling women to be equal partners with men in the development and use of agricultural…
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The year of the Tiger and a leap into action
11.02.22-
Big data
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Food security
The Lunar New Year began on Feb 1st, 2022, bringing billions of people into the…
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COVID-19 and rising global food prices: What’s really happening?
10.02.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ROB VOS, JOSEPH GLAUBER, MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ AND DAVID LABORDE Food prices are skyrocketing around…
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CIP’s 50th Anniversary Celebrates Andean Agrobiodiversity
10.02.22Anniversaries are occasions to commemorate the past while looking to the future, to mark the…
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FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2021: Diversification is key to building resilient agrifood systems
10.02.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA Over the last few years, global food systems have been disrupted by…
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DRC to partner with IITA in transforming its economy through agriculture
10.02.22IITA partners with various African governments and the private sector to transform African agricult…
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