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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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Farmers in southern Mali dial ‘S’ for success
19.01.22Sènèkèla/Sandji mobile-based services make climate and agro-advisory information available to far…
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Climate change slows wheat breeding progress for yield and wide adaptation, new study finds
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nearly four decades of repeated crossing and selection for heat and drought tolerance have greatly…
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Crop breeders in eastern Africa modernize to end regional hunger
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Food security
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Nutrition
A quiet transformation is underway at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organisation (…
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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit: Leveraging Japanese knowledge to address global health and nutrition challenges
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Health
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Nutrition
BY SWATI MALHOTRA,FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI AND HIROYUKI TAKESHIMA As many developing countries face enormous…
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Why winning the ‘water game’ in India requires team effort
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Environmental health
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Food security
Water isn't just a natural resource; it is also a peoples' resource, shared between communities,…
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Empowering female farmers through improved access to water technologies
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Solar irrigation technology has the potential to empower more than 12 million women farmers across…
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Canopy temperature provides novel insights into potato yields and efficient water use
12.01.22A new potato or sweetpotato variety represents only the “tip of the iceberg,” concealing hundred…
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What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT,ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN During the past several years, we have…
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Improved varieties sow a better future in Mali’s groundnut hubs
11.01.22Improved varieties are helping increase groundnut production, farm incomes, improving lives and empo…
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New climate-smart sorghum and millet varieties improve nutrition and incomes of Malian farmers
11.01.22High-yielding sorghum with grain yield between 1.8 to 2 t/ha and dry fodder yield of…
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Guidelines for genetic purity testing in high oleic groundnut variety seed production
11.01.22The national release of high oleic groundnut varieties Girnar 4 (ICGV 15083) and Girnar 5…
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2021 was the year of collaboration in breeding informatics
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Gender equality
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6RfglCQkI[/embed] In March 2021, a new network of specialis…
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Hands-on training in genomic tools for crop research organized in Mali
10.01.22To train the next generation of researchers in the use of genomic tools for enhancing…
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Showcasing improved varieties and hybrids performance to seed growers for better nutrition, climate resilience and livelihoods in Mali
10.01.22An open field day at our research station in Samanko, Mali, introduced local private seed…
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Africa RISING: Technology parks herald a new beginning in Mali’s farms
10.01.22The Africa RISING project draws to a close in June 2022 On 11 and 12…
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“Disease nursery” trials established in disease hotspots to test soybean varieties for resistance
10.01.22Soybean diseases such as soybean rust, red leaf blotch (RLB), and frogeye leaf spot (FELS)…
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IITA scientist wins best poster award for gender presentation
10.01.22Devis Mwakanyamale, an IITA Research Associate in the Institute’s Dar es Salaam station, receive…
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IHC visits IITA: Promotes Indian culture
10.01.22The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Benin, Chad, and Economic Community of West African States…
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