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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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STEP Agri-Competition: IITA encourages participation of younger generation in agriculture
20.01.22To attract, retain, and change the perception of young people about agriculture, the Start Them Ear…
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IITA Tree Heritage Park accredited by ARBNET
20.01.22The IITA Tree Heritage Park (THP), located within the campus of the International Institute of…
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NEMEDUSSA Consortium Advancing Nematology Education in Sub-Sahara Africa
20.01.22To develop the research and educational capacity in Sub-Sahara Africa in the field of nematology,…
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BASICS-II and AGRA to collaborate in scaling cassava seed systems in Nigeria
20.01.22The Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, phase 2 (BASICS-II) project…
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Climate migration and social transformation: embracing complexity
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
Unpredictable rainfall patterns, droughts and floods linked to climate change are increasingly drivi…
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Scientific evidence shows eating millets leads to better growth in children
19.01.22Researchers examining the nutritional benefits of millets have found that these “smart foods” ca…
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Farmers in southern Mali dial ‘S’ for success
19.01.22Sènèkèla/Sandji mobile-based services make climate and agro-advisory information available to far…
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Climate change slows wheat breeding progress for yield and wide adaptation, new study finds
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nearly four decades of repeated crossing and selection for heat and drought tolerance have greatly…
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Crop breeders in eastern Africa modernize to end regional hunger
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Food security
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Nutrition
A quiet transformation is underway at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organisation (…
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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit: Leveraging Japanese knowledge to address global health and nutrition challenges
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Health
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Nutrition
BY SWATI MALHOTRA,FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI AND HIROYUKI TAKESHIMA As many developing countries face enormous…
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Why winning the ‘water game’ in India requires team effort
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Environmental health
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Food security
Water isn't just a natural resource; it is also a peoples' resource, shared between communities,…
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Empowering female farmers through improved access to water technologies
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Solar irrigation technology has the potential to empower more than 12 million women farmers across…
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Canopy temperature provides novel insights into potato yields and efficient water use
12.01.22A new potato or sweetpotato variety represents only the “tip of the iceberg,” concealing hundred…
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What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT,ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN During the past several years, we have…
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Improved varieties sow a better future in Mali’s groundnut hubs
11.01.22Improved varieties are helping increase groundnut production, farm incomes, improving lives and empo…
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New climate-smart sorghum and millet varieties improve nutrition and incomes of Malian farmers
11.01.22High-yielding sorghum with grain yield between 1.8 to 2 t/ha and dry fodder yield of…
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Guidelines for genetic purity testing in high oleic groundnut variety seed production
11.01.22The national release of high oleic groundnut varieties Girnar 4 (ICGV 15083) and Girnar 5…
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2021 was the year of collaboration in breeding informatics
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Gender equality
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6RfglCQkI[/embed] In March 2021, a new network of specialis…
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