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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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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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The Russia-Ukraine war is exacerbating international food price volatility
30.03.22-
Food security
The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System is showin…
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Open Call for Disruptive Agri-Tech Solutions to Support Morocco’s Generation Green 2020-2030 Strategy
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Food security
CGIAR Accelerate Impact Platform, IMPACT Lab, World Bank and Trust Fund Digital Development Partne…
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CGIAR to Launch Advisory Panel and Consultations to Boost Partner Engagement
29.03.22New initiative follows calls for greater engagement with key partners in reforms aimed at helping…
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Inspiring Stories: Daw Lae Lae Soe
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Gender equality
Like many women involved in fisheries, Daw Lae Lae Soe faces a world of gender…
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On-Farm Trials Thrive with Support from Farmer Groups
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Gender equality
For the past three years, the International Potato Center’s (CIP) SweetGAINS program in Africa has…
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New CGIAR Initiative to Catalyze Resilient Agrifood Systems in East and Southern Africa
28.03.22The new Ukama Ustawi Initiative will help millions of vulnerable smallholders in 12 countries transi…
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Madagascar government to collaborate with IITA for agricultural solutions after natural disaster
28.03.22Delegates from the Government of Madagascar, headed by Mrs Fanjaniaina Raharinomena, the Secretary G…
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BASICS-II brings together public-private stakeholders to promote sustainable cassava seed delivery in Tanzania
28.03.22The project Building Economically Sustainable Seed Systems for Cassava, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) organi…
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GSN launches webinar series to promote gender research and its impact
28.03.22The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) has organized a webinar series to enhance gender research an…
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Research shows material from banana waste can help fight destructive potato cyst nematodes
28.03.22With potato production in East Africa under increasing threat from the invasive and highly destructi…
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West Africa crop breeders boost expertise via IITA and EiB collaboration
28.03.22IITA, in collaboration with CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB), delivered two professional workshop…
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IITA and BASICS-II team hold crucial meeting with Tanzanian Minister on agricultural transformation
28.03.22Tanzanian Minister of Agriculture, Honorable Hussein Mohamed Bashe, wants IITA to support the East…
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IFAD-funded Zero Hunger Project makes progress in achieving its objective in Nigeria
28.03.22As part of efforts to realize IITA’s Zero Hunger initiative (ZHI) partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP …
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Zero Hunger Project installs model wet hammer mill in Benue State
28.03.22The IITA-led Zero Hunger Project’s partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP is already yielding commendable…
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to further exacerbate the food insecurity emergency in Yemen
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Food security
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has roiled agricultural markets, particularly wheat, which has seen pri…
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Agricultural support: How to get incentives right for people, economies, and the planet
23.03.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY JOHANN SWINNEN AND MARTIEN VAN NIEUWKOOP Totaling more than $639 billion per year, public…
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Innovation and Scaling: An Introductory Online Course
23.03.22Achieving impact at scale is one of the greatest challenges facing the research and development…
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Crowdsourcing market intelligence to boost sweetpotato breeding impacts in Uganda
22.03.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scientists with the International Potato Center (CIP) and Uganda’s National Crops Resources Resear…
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