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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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Reforestation project brings fire mitigation training to host community
10.02.22As the re-planted tree seedlings continue to grow in the degraded Olokemeji Forest Reserve, the IIT…
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One-CGIAR Sea & Pacific and Vietnam join hands in collective action plans for resilient and sustainable agriculture
09.02.22The courtesy meeting between top leaders of Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (M…
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New mapping study of Rwanda pig value chain analyses governance and sanitary risks
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Health
The pig production sector in Rwanda is growing rapidly as a result of rising local…
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New scoping review sheds light on antimicrobial resistance in global food crop value chains
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The role of food crops as a conduit for transmission of antimicrobial resistance from soil…
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Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems
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Faced with numerous challenges to nourishing a growing population, food system researchers are looki…
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responsAbility launches climate-smart food systems investment solution with KfW as anchor investor and in partnership with the CGIAR
04.02.22With the initial support of GIZ and with KfW as anchor investor, responsAbility and CGIAR…
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Progress and promise with orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Ethiopia
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mohammed Yusuf walks out of an unfinished house with no roof and heads to his…
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In the Spotlight: Marleen Schutter
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Marleen Schutter is a postdoctoral researcher within the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the…
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To protect the world’s vital wetlands, we must invest in science
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As the world prepares to celebrate World Wetlands Day, IWMI reflects on the transformative power…
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Feed the microbes
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY JABOURY GHAZOUL At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, 26 countries pledged to int…
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WorldFish wins inaugural Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
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WorldFish was awarded today the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge grand prize of…
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Wheat titan honored posthumously by India
27.01.22India has conferred posthumously upon Sanjaya Rajaram, 2014 World Food Prize laureate and former whe…
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IITA Tree Heritage Park awarded the 500th Level II accreditation by ARBNET
25.01.22The IITA Tree Heritage Park (THP), located within the IITA campus in Ibadan and managed by the Fo…
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IITA Gender Network to create more visibility for gender research in 2022
25.01.22The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) held its last quarterly meeting for the year on 8 December.…
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Researchers organize PVS workshop to improve African Yam Bean availability and enhance food security
25.01.22To ensure food security and improve the nutrition of Africans, the Genetic Resource Center (GRC)…
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Gender book launch: A significant shift in the drive towards gender equality
25.01.22The past decade has seen a renewed and more comprehensive interest in gender equality and…
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Orange-fleshed sweetpotato is key to positive change in Ethiopia
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Umer Yusuf is an energetic farmer living in Bishan Babilie in Ethiopia. Like many farmers…
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Emerging Youth: Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Imoran Farms Nigeria L…
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