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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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Interim Results from Netherlands-CGIAR Research Programme
22.03.22The Netherlands-CGIAR Research Programme contributes to transformational change in agriculture aroun…
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Protecting Scarce Dryland Water
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
ICARDA is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Fores…
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Why worry about groundwater?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Making the invisible visible: A chat with groundwater expert Dr. Karen Villholth, Principal Research…
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SPIA’s workflow reaches the land of rivers
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Gender equality
Bangladesh will be the fourth focus country of SPIA’s national data systems team. We recently…
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How Global Collaboration Can Prevent Plant Disease Pandemics in Africa
21.03.22Emerging plant diseases threaten Africa's food security, but international scientific collaboration …
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High Food and Fertilizer Prices and War in Ukraine
21.03.22Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two…
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Deadlock over UN treaty for high seas keeps developing countries at a disadvantage
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
The livelihoods of millions worldwide continue to be at risk after UN Member States failed…
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New Endeavor Fast-tracks the Power of Crop Diversity for Climate Resilience
17.03.22Researchers will source useful gene variations from CGIAR genebanks to develop climate-smart crops A…
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Policy seminar: Repurposing agricultural subsidies can deliver better value for people, the planet, and the global economy
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SWATI MALHOTRA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 For decades, governments have provided massive support to…
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New CGIAR Genebank in Colombia Receives $17 Million Funding from Bezos Earth Fund
15.03.22A success story in global cooperation, CGIAR’s network of genebanks is helping scientists climate-…
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Estimating smallholder maize yields in Ethiopia with satellites and machine learning
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Food security
BY ZHE GUO AND BILLY BABIS Accurate and precise monitoring of agricultural output in developing…
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Experts discuss the impact of climate change on tick-borne pathogens in western, central and eastern Africa
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Africa is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, impacting the emergence, re-emergence …
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IITA and Kilimo Trust in the fight against post-harvest losses in Northern Uganda
15.03.22Post-harvest losses stemming from poor post-harvest handling of their crops is one of the challenges…
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Ground-breaking new genebank unveiled in Colombia to help climate proof food systems across the tropics
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The world’s largest genetic library for beans, cassava and tropical forages has been officially op…
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A new model of pathogen transmission in developing urban landscapes
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Health
Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute, the University of Edinburgh, the Uni…
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Revealing the deeper forces impacting women’s lives after COVID-19
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Gender equality
As the world emerges from the pandemic, agricultural researchers have begun training their lenses to…
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The Russia-Ukraine crisis poses a serious food security threat for Egypt
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has imperiled global food security—creating suffering within Ukraine …
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana Disclosure Notice for Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP)
14.03.22Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project being implement in…
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