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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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IITA-Abuja seeks stronger ties with FCTA
28.02.22The newly-appointed IITA Abuja Station Head, Professor Lateef Sanni, on 3 January paid a courtesy …
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IITA scientists promote gender equality through agriculture in new publication
28.02.22IITA scientists, in partnership with more than 55 other CGIAR researchers and partners, have publ…
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IITA and FCTA review existing partnership
28.02.22The recently-appointed IITA Abuja Station Head, Professor Lateef Sanni, on 7 February, signed a re…
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Increasing youth agribusiness employment in Tanzania
28.02.22ENABLE-TAAT continues to impact the youth agribusiness ecosystem in Tanzania, leading to increased y…
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Healthy eating: Making a case for short-set method in yogurt production
28.02.22Yogurt, one of the dairy products from commercially domesticated mammals, is regarded as a nutrition…
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IITA Forest Center awarded Global Botanic Garden Fund for tree conservation
28.02.22The Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) awarded a grant to the IITA Forest Center, Iba…
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IITA Director for Eastern Africa, Leena Tripathi, joins the Advisory Board of Alliance for Science
28.02.22The IITA Director for Eastern Africa hub and Biotechnology Leader, Leena Tripathi, has been appoi…
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IITA Y-SWEP biogas technology: A sustainable energy solution and gateway to more research
28.02.22IITA has taken another step in implementing a circular economy within the Institute by launching tw…
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Special Envoy highlights DRC’s agriculture plan during visit to IITA Goodwill Ambassador and former Nigerian President
28.02.22During his extended visit to the IITA headquarters in Ibadan, Special Envoy to the Democratic Repu…
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2021 Dry Season Rice Farming: IITA-NIAA supports 200 rice farmers with inputs
28.02.22The USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity in Yola, Adamawa State, on …
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IITA to collaborate with Bangladesh to improve areas of research and nutrition
28.02.22For more than five decades, IITA has collaborated with organizations and governments to help attai…
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Dominicans call for partnership with IITA to empower their team in agricultural activities
28.02.22The Order of Preachers (OP), an order of Catholic priests also called Dominicans, paid a…
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New hotspot mapping reveals where climate change hits women the hardest
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Gender equality
Women are more at risk of experiencing adverse climate change effects in some areas than…
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How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect global food security?
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND DAVID LABORDE The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has roiled commodity markets…
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Varying impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on farmer incomes: Evidence from India
24.02.22-
Food security
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, SAMYUKTHA KANNAN AND BERBER KRAMER Lockdowns and other social distancing meas…
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Building One Health partnerships and research capacity in Kenya
24.02.22-
Health
A central focus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)’s One Health work in Afri…
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Could bird flu be the next global pandemic?
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Health
An opinion piece by Klara Saville, head of global animal health at Brooke, and Delia…
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Two years on, resilience innovations help food supply chains overcome COVID-19 disruptions
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdow…
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