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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Breeding Resources Initiative launches Global User Support (GUS) for breeding information management systems within CGIAR
02.10.23-
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Breeding Resources Initiative (BRI) has established a comprehensive global user support network kno…
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The Scaling Scan — launch of 3rd edition
12.09.23-
Big data
How many times have we seen innovative ideas launched into the marketplace, seeming to offer…
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Village Livestock Promoters get new dairy data app to support smallholder buffalo farmers in Nepal
11.08.23-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early 2023, Julie Ojango, a senior scientist in the Livestock Genetics program at the…
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Artificial Intelligence: How could it transform agriculture?
09.08.23-
Big data
For most of us this year, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has leapt from…
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What do we know about the impacts of the next El Niño on agrifood systems?
22.06.23-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Jawoo Koo and Weston Anderson Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in…
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CGIAR announces new breeding data strategy and endorses single data platform
20.06.23-
Big data
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Nutrition, health & food security
To boost the efficiency and sustainability of its data-driven breeding efforts, CGIAR has endorsed a…
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Africa needs agricultural innovation to achieve the full potential of AfCFTA
05.06.23-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture should be prioritised as a test case for AfCFTA adoption to spur not only…
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Blueprints for new varieties: CGIAR prepares new lab service with release of key crop reference genomes
24.05.23-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists at CGIAR are releasing several high quality reference genomes representing African crops …
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Harnessing crop breeding data: AfricaRice transitions to Enterprise Breeding System
20.04.23-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you visit AfricaRice breeding stations in Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Nigeria and Senegal, you mi…
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Genetic gains in Uganda maize breeding are strong – and heading for improvement
17.04.23-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
In the face of complex climate risks in Uganda, maize breeders are ensuring smallholder farmers…
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Impressed with ChatGPT's agricultural knowledge? CGIAR's open access effort (probably)* enabled it.
14.03.23-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Featured image: "A group of researchers with diverse background amazed at chatgpt response on comput…
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CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform and Banca Sella Group Announce Partnership
06.03.23-
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AG 4 Future Food Accelerator calls on innovation teams from around the world that can…
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Harnessing aquatic foods to tackle multiple global challenges
23.02.23-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Policymakers addressing food system challenges now have access to new analyses and online tools that…
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Updates from Breeding Resources: 2023
20.02.23-
Big data
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR Breeding Resource Initiative (led and managed by Genetic Innovation’s Breeding Research Serv…
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FishBase: An increasingly valuable resource
03.02.23-
Big data
What do researchers in fields as diverse as agriculture, mathematics, economics, psychology and even…
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Five strides forward for CGIAR crop breeding resources and services
24.01.23-
Big data
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Nutrition, health & food security
Sitting at the cutting edge of science, the crop breeding domain has been improving and…
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Breathing new life into FishBase and SeaLifeBase
16.01.23-
Big data
There’s a website that’s a bit like a time machine – old-school text, no dynamic…
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On the ground at COP27
16.12.22-
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Key takeaways on the outcomes of COP27 from the Accelerate for Impact Platform: A spotlight…
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