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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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Gender book launch: A significant shift in the drive towards gender equality
24.01.22The past decade has seen a renewed and more comprehensive interest in gender equality and…
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Dryland Intercropping of Lentil and Quinoa is Sustainable and Profitable
24.01.22A factsheet detailing ICARDA’s success at relay-cropping lentil and quinoa crops in Morocco has b…
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CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2020 annual report
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Food security
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Nutrition
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) published its 2020 annual…
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Food systems transformation pathways: Moving from traditional to modernizing food systems
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Food security
The authors map national food system transformations in a recently developed typology, using economi…
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An expert discussion on putting gender at the heart of climate security
21.01.22Giulia Caroli, Carolina Sarzana and Alice Taylor Climate change and related security risks, such…
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The links between food-related trade and fiscal policies and obesity rates in low- and middle-income countries
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Health
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Nutrition
BY KIBROM ABAY, HOSAM IBRAHIM, CLEMENS BREISINGER AND ALI ABDELHADI Global overweight and obesity ra…
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Potatoes in rice paddies?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Sustainable intensification yields multiple benefits in China With approximately 19% of the global p…
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Honda to work with IITA in developing African agriculture
20.01.22The Honda Team from Ogun State visited IITA Headquarters on 8 December to strengthen the partnersh…
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Evaluation Case Study: CGIAR Ontologies Community Of Practice
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Big data
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Environmental health
Evaluations offer a chance for reflection, as well as an opportunity for improvement. They unravel…
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Impact stories attracting more agricultural investment from DR Congo and donors in 2022 – IITA DG
20.01.22“Telling the stories of the impact agricultural research is making in Africa can only generate…
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Are energy transitions a risk or opportunity for climate security? What the experts say
20.01.22Alice Taylor and Stefan Boessner The global energy system is at the centre of two…
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IITA DG Nteranya Sanginga becomes Yoruba Chief
20.01.22IITA Director General Dr Nteranya Sanginga was conferred with the chieftaincy title of Aare Afur…
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Tanzanian Minister pledges support for IITA’s research and capacity building efforts
20.01.22Tanzania’s Agriculture Minister, Hon. Prof Adolph Mkenda, has expressed his appreciation for the s…
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AKILIMO goes to prison
20.01.22The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) recently organized sensitization training in a corr…
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IITA joins with Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture to organize starch stakeholders’ meeting to expand cassava commercialization
20.01.22As part of efforts to realize the national cassava commercialization strategy, IITA, through the BES…
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Minister lauds five-year program in Northern Tanzania for which IITA provided technical support
20.01.22The Tanzania Minister of Agriculture, Hon Prof Adolph Mkenda, has praised the efforts and impacts…
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SEFAN/SWEAN project stakeholders hold roundtable in Abuja
20.01.22A two-day round table of stakeholders in Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training (AT…
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STEP Agri-Competition: IITA encourages participation of younger generation in agriculture
20.01.22To attract, retain, and change the perception of young people about agriculture, the Start Them Ear…
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