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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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IITA partners WUR to improve food systems
21.02.22Food systems refer to the organization of the production, processing, distribution, consumption of f…
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IITA Director for Eastern Africa, Leena Tripathi, joins the Advisory Board of Alliance for Science
21.02.22The 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
21.02.22IITA 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
21.02.22During 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
21.02.22The USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity in Yola, Adamawa State, on …
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STEP holds Agri-competition to attract young students to agriculture
21.02.22The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project, implemented by IITA in partnership with Maste…
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Top 10 gender research reads from 2021
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Gender equality
In our series of recommended reading lists, gender experts provide starting points for researchers, …
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CGIAR Mourns Barbara H. Wells, Leading Expert in Genetic Innovation, Agriculture, and Forestry Research
17.02.22In a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, Dr. Wells helped improve the health…
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Towards more effective and resilient seed value chains for grain legumes and dryland cereals
17.02.22Background: a search for more effective and resilient seed value chains What does it take…
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Targeting a neglected threat to potato production in Africa
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With an ability to produce more food per hectare than most crops, the potato has…
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Experts call for equitable food system transformation to tackle global health challenges of the 21st century
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Food security
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Health
Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate…
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How Gender Equality Can Transform Food Systems and Protect Us From Climate Change Disasters
11.02.22Enabling women to be equal partners with men in the development and use of agricultural…
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The year of the Tiger and a leap into action
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Big data
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Food security
The Lunar New Year began on Feb 1st, 2022, bringing billions of people into the…
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COVID-19 and rising global food prices: What’s really happening?
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY ROB VOS, JOSEPH GLAUBER, MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ AND DAVID LABORDE Food prices are skyrocketing around…
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CIP’s 50th Anniversary Celebrates Andean Agrobiodiversity
10.02.22Anniversaries are occasions to commemorate the past while looking to the future, to mark the…
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FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2021: Diversification is key to building resilient agrifood systems
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Environmental health
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA Over the last few years, global food systems have been disrupted by…
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DRC to partner with IITA in transforming its economy through agriculture
10.02.22IITA partners with various African governments and the private sector to transform African agricult…
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Improved yields in demonstration plots build farmers’ trust in AKILIMO tools
10.02.22AKILIMO tools’ performance in cassava cultivation has facilitated its widening acceptance and inc…
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