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International Potato Center (CIP)

Food security

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has disrupted agricultural production and trade from one of the world's…

Food for Nourishment, Food for Empowerment

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

One book empowered an entire community. The quest began as a desire to showcase the…

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is likely to compound Sudan’s existing food security problems

Food security

BY CLEMENS BREISINGER, OLIVER KIRUI, PAUL DOROSH, JOSEPH GLAUBER AND DAVID LABORDE Russia's invasion…

Diversity is the fundamental principle to use

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security
Gender equality

Aquatic foods and food systems have long lived in the shadow in agricultural research. Last…

Featured image: A farming household harvesting from their cowpea field. (c) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Flickr).

New multi-stakeholder platform to promote strategic approaches in climate-smart agriculture in Kenya

Climate adaptation & mitigation

One of the biggest challenges in taking effective and sustainable climate action is the lack…

Members of the Riyadh women fish retailers' committee in Kafr El Sheik, Egypt. Photo by Kate Bevitt.

Gender-inclusive innovations for aquatic food systems transformation

International Potato Center (CIP)

05.04.22

Gender equality

Growing evidence points to gender equality playing a key role in aquatic food systems’ contributio…

Smartphone app help farmers control potato and sweetpotato diseases

Health

Pests and diseases destroy between 20 and 40% of crops globally, and farmers in developing…

In the Spotlight: Catherine Mwema

WorldFish's postdoctoral fellow Catherine Mwema gives insights into how she leads efforts to establi…

CGIAR’s Agroecology Initiative: Transforming Food, Land, and Water Systems Across the Global South

CGIAR

Nutrition, health & food security

The Initiative, Transformational Agroecology across Food, Land, and Water Systems, will work with sm…

A Green Light for Desert Farming Collaboration

CGIAR

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health
Food security
Gender equality
Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

At a High Level KIADPAI/CGIAR side-event during the 7th International Date Palm Conference in Abu…

The Future Seeds LEED Certification

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Biodiversity

Future Seeds is the first ever genebank building in the world built with the goal…

West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict

01.04.22

Food security

Food security in West Africa has been deteriorating since 2015: The proportion of the population…

A Renewed Organization For A Dynamic Continent

CGIAR

01.04.22

The challenges confronting the African continent are as striking as its growth. Climate change may…

Cameroon learns potato lessons from Kenya

International Potato Center (CIP)

31.03.22

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Potato is an important food and nutritional security crop in sub-Saharan Africa. However, a quick…

WorldFish pilots last-mile feed business models to boost aquaculture in Zambia