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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
16.05.25-
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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Delivering scalable, sustainable fall armyworm technology to TAAT beneficiaries
10.12.21Fall Armyworm (FAW) is a highly damaging pest to maize. However, in the past five…
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Call for applications: Open Doors Fellowship Program for early to mid-career women researchers in Africa
10.12.21A comprehensive and dynamic leadership fellowship to support careers of women researchers from acade…
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Minister lauds IITA’s research and capacity building of future researchers efforts in Tanzania and pledges support
10.12.21Tanzania’s Agriculture Minister, Hon. Prof Adolph Mkenda, has expressed his appreciation for the s…
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of late blight prevention in China
09.12.21Now in its seventh year, the AsiaBlight Network is committed to finding solutions to ward off an…
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Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND LUCIA CARRILLO Do ambitious women tend to be more empowered in…
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Digital phenotyping technologies set to take off across CGIAR
08.12.21-
Big data
New and more accessible digital phenotyping technologies and methods can help breeding programs coll…
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Voices, collaboration and complexity: Improving nutrition in the 21st century
07.12.21CGIAR-sponsored Nutrition for Growth side event grapples with challenges to provide nutritious diets…
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Agro Landscapes launches e-learning for systems thinking on food, land and water
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Environmental health
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Food security
December 8, 2021 Agro Landscapes has launched "Synergies and tradeoffs in food, land and water…
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To meet breeding targets, we must be willing to change: EiB’s 2021 Virtual Meeting
03.12.21As the CGIAR and NARES breeding community push towards increased genetic gains and reducing the wei…
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How can we respond to the climate security crisis Latin America? An expert panel discussion
03.12.21Authors: Alice Taylor, Tanaya Dutta Gupta, Frans Schapendonk, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Läderach Over t…
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How healthy soils can address the climate crisis
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Although agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change, it is also a significant contributor to…
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WLE Legacy Symposium reflects on 10 years of impact
03.12.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
As the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) draws to a close…
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WLE Legacy Symposium
03.12.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
WLE symposium celebrated the achievements and impacts of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land…
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Social Soil
02.12.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The SWC@Scale project is funded by GIZ as part of the PROSOL global program, and carried out alo…
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ICT2Scale demonstrates the vital importance of ICT tools for dryland farmers
02.12.21-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To fill gaps in essential data informing decisions at the farm level, the ICT2Scale…
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Transforming Nigeria’s agrifood system for healthier diets and higher farm incomes
01.12.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY OLIVIER ECKER, TRACY BROWN AND KWAW S. ANDAM Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country,…
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Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on Africa’s women fish processors and traders
01.12.21Women fish processors and traders play a critical role in food and nutrition security across…
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The politics of knowledge: Reclaiming the gender narrative across agri-food systems
01.12.21-
Gender equality
The colonization of knowledge in agri-food systems has many implications for the way we think…
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