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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Livestock vaccines are supporting women's empowerment in northern Ghana
04.10.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Healthy and productive small ruminants play a key role in supporting women’s empowerment in low-…
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How does colonial heritage segment food markets? Evidence from rice consumers in Mauritania
04.10.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A key contribution of this study is the evaluation of consumer rice preferences—segments whose pre…
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AfricaRice and CERFAM join forces to support African countries to end hunger through South-South cooperation
03.10.22-
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 3 October 2022. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and the Regional Center…
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When ties that bind Increase migrants’ vulnerability: Insights from the south to west Asia migration corridor
03.10.22When ties that bind Increase migrants’ vulnerability: Insights from the south to west Asia migrati…
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Decoding the food and culture connection to promote healthier foodways in Kenya
03.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Food and culture are inherently connected. What natural sources people use to obtain their food,…
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Evaluation of in vitro digestion methods and starch structure components as determinants for predicting the glycemic index of rice
03.10.22-
Nutrition
Shift in dietary practices and lower energy expenditure brought about by various socio-economic deve…
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IITA improving maize genotyping workflow in developing countries
02.10.22With growing concerns around food and nutrition security globally due to the Ukraine−Russia war, t…
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GSN to reach wider audience with training opportunities
02.10.22During its virtual 2022 third quarter meeting on 16 September, the IITA Gender Science Network (GS…
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IITA hosts expert workshop on trade, innovation, and entrepreneurship for improved FNSSA
02.10.22Under the Long-term EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and S…
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Over 50 scientists and science communicators trained to communicate on genome editing
02.10.22The Alliance for Science (AFS), in conjunction with the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (O…
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SISCA analyzes results of inventory of cassava and maize seed sectors in DRC
02.10.22Stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) organized a workshop to analyze the results…
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The right time for the right place
30.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Wheat is a strategically important crop for Afghanistan because as a major source of nutrition…
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Cluster-based Farmer Field School in the polders of the coastal zone of Bangladesh: improving effectiveness of extension approach
30.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Manoranjan Kumar Mondal, Mary Ann Batas, Muhammad Humayoun Kabir, and Sudhir Yadav Bangladesh has…
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Launch of the National Agriculture Innovation and Technology Policy (NATIP) 2022-2027 (Nigeria)
29.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
26 August 2022 marked an important day for the Nigerian agricultural sector as the Federal…
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The quest for CGIAR innovations to reduce food system carbon footprints on a global scale
29.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Ma. Eliza Villarino and Augusto Castro Nunez The Low-Emission Food Systems Initiative Mitigate+…
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Integrated approaches needed to address declining freshwater storage
29.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Much more work is needed to better understand and address our planet’s dwindling freshwater storag…
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Special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights CIMMYT’s work on gender inclusivity
28.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
A new special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights nine influential papers published i…
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Making our knowledge travel – A new African Union, CAADP-XP4, and CGIAR Partnership Framework for Knowledge Management
28.09.22Key African institutions and CGIAR have drafted a new agriculture-for-development knowledge manageme…
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