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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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Hydropower: Can it hold up against climate change?
27.04.24Matthew McCartney comments on the stabilizing role of hydropower in building resilience to drought. …
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IWMI launches the Climate Smart Governance dashboard in Sri Lanka
26.04.24The dashboard will support policy makers with timely climate adaptation interventions. The post IWMI…
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IWMI, GIDA sign MoU to boost irrigation farming
25.04.24IWMI and the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA) enter into a five-year agreement aimed at…
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Water security takes center stage in Anticipatory Action: IWMI Partners with Anticipation Hub
19.04.24IWMI partners with the Anticipation Hub to advance water security in Anticipatory Action within Frag…
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The hidden crisis of disaster displacement and host community struggles in rural areas of Pakistan
19.04.24Two years on from the devasting floods that submerged a third of the country, killing…
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IWMI to expand groundbreaking Africa earth observation project
17.04.24New grant will enable expanded scope and collaboration and make actionable water information accessi…
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A Glass Half Full? Facing up to our Water Futures | Alan Nicol | TEDxDaltVila
16.04.24Alan Nicol on collective action approaches in responding to the unprecedented series of risks and…
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Scientists reflect on the design and implementation of the CGIAR One Health Initiative
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
In a new research article published in the journal One Health (Mar 2024), the lead…
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Farmers Empowered: Accra Workshop Tackles Climate Challenges with Crop-Climate Modeling
29.02.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In a week-long intensive workshop, researchers, agricultural stakeholders, and early-career scientis…
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The best time to plan for drought is when it’s raining
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
Disaster response needs to move from reactive to proactive if we are going to…
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Episode Two: India’s Policy Pathways
21.02.24Listen to our India experts! In this second installment of our new podcast, our host…
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CGIAR Initiative NATURE+ unites circular economy entrepreneurs in Colombia
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Environmental health & biodiversity
CGIAR’s Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative is working with green-economy entrepreneurs who have …
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NATURE+ launches circular bioeconomy hub in India to inspire, innovate and integrate nature-positive businesses
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CGIAR’s Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative, in collaboration with partner BAIF and other key sta…
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World Wetlands Day: Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director of CGIAR
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Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
A message from the Thalangama wetland in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the work of IWMI…
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CGIAR’s new Executive Managing Director discusses opportunities to support Sri Lanka’s development priorities with Prime Minister
07.02.24Ismahane Elouafi visited the country to learn more about IWMI’s work and ways to leverage…
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New podcast explores policy coherence and system transformation in food, land and water
06.02.24Policy Pathways, produced by IWMI, examines policies for sustainable development and climate resilie…
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Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
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Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
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Reviving Ghana’s green belt: the fight for Ghanian forests requires a blend of science, local wisdom and collaborative action.
23.01.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Feeding the world is no small task, especially with an ever-growing population in and around…
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