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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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Dietary diversity among men and women in rural Sri Lanka
31.12.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY DEANNA OLNEY,BESS CASWELL, RENUKA SILVA AND MALIKA FERNANDO Poor quality diets are the leading…
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In the Spotlight: Joshua Wesana
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Joshua Wesana is a senior fellow in Fish and Food Systems Nutritional Outcomes at the…
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A brighter future: The relationships between cash transfers, mental health, and investments
30.12.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MELISSA HIDROBO, NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA AND SHALINI ROY Mental ill-health is a significant disease …
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The year in review: Reflecting on a busy and productive 2021
29.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A major highlight for IWMI in 2021 was our robust participation in the COP26 climate…
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A behavioral perspective on improving water governance in India
29.12.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY THOMAS FALK, DENNIS SCHÜPF,WEI ZHANG AND ILKHOM SOLIEV India is globally the largest groundwater…
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Water rights are women’s rights
29.12.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
Why water rights are women's rights and how better research can deliver both. Agriculture in…
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Launching Nigeria Fish Futures to nourish a nation
28.12.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Fish are the future of food in Nigeria, agreed panelists at the virtual launch of a new book exp…
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Accelerating rural energy access in the race to net zero
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Environmental health
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Food security
Policy and action research by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems to…
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Scaling up sustainable and inclusive solar irrigation in India
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
An evaluation of CGIAR's work on 'solar power as a remunerative crop' finds that it…
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A ‘probiotic’ approach to agriculture is better for people and planet (commentary)
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Reversing biodiversity loss is a critical component of limiting climate change and vice versa, but…
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CGIAR research team addresses gender dynamics in the breeding process
25.12.21In product development, a gender-inclusive process can enhance equality between genders, and when wo…
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Radio IITA presenter wins media award
25.12.21Radio IITA’s Dajie Odok received an award for the “Best Reporter of the Year” in the…
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“Disease nursery” trials established in disease hotspots to test soybean varieties for resistance
25.12.21Soybean diseases such as soybean rust, red leaf blotch (RLB), and frogeye leaf spot (FELS)…
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Tricot approach: Cassava and potato trials show promising results in Rwanda
25.12.21IITA and partners—the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB), the Intern…
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Auto DraftScientists identify markers associated with resistance to the banana weevil borer
25.12.21Scientists at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and their collaborative par…
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IFPRI book: Improving African agricultural value chains to boost production
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA, ALAN DE BRAUW, ERWIN BULTE AND EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA The agricultural productiv…
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‘Seed funding’: How more billionaires can help end world hunger
23.12.21A recent Twitter conversation between the UN’s David Beasley and Tesla’s Elon Musk has shown…
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Launching the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Integral to food and nutrition security around the world, artisanal fisheries and aquaculture are …
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