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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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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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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Gender and variety trait preferences in Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique
27.04.22-
Gender equality
To ensure better adoption of vitamin-A rich sweetpotato, it is paramount to develop varieties that…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens food security in Malawi. How can the country respond?
27.04.22-
Food security
Food insecurity is endemic in Malawi, affecting up to 38% of the population every year in the…
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Experts highlight benefits of improved cassava varieties ahead of 2022 planting season
27.04.22Experts from the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASIC…
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AUC commends IITA’s research activities
27.04.22His Excellency, Prof. Mohammed Belhocine, the Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology, and I…
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35 learn about gene editing and its communication
27.04.22Scientists and communication specialists from various Kenyan organizations participated in a four-da…
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Muhogo Bora Project trains local agricultural officers on management and gender integration in the Tanzanian cassava seed system
27.04.22IITA and Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), through the Muhogo Bora (Better Cassa…
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Building a fish house for life and livelihoods
27.04.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Fish traders come from all over southern Africa to gather at the port in Luangwa,…
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Changes to CGIAR's Executive Management Team
26.04.22Friday, March 18, was Kundhavi Kadiresan’s last day working with CGIAR. For and on behalf…
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Policy seminar: German development cooperation and CGIAR joining hands for sustainable food systems transformation
26.04.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
BY BIRTHE PAUL For decades, Germany has been a reliable partner of international agricultural resear…
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High fertilizer prices contribute to rising global food security concerns
25.04.22-
Food security
BY CHARLOTTE HEBEBRAND AND DAVID LABORDE Like people, plants need a multitude of nutrients to…
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School children in Huancavelica excited by the story “The Powerful Potatoes”
25.04.22A true celebration was experienced by schoolchildren from four rural communities in Huancavelica whe…
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CIMMYT to lead CGIAR varietal improvement and seed delivery project in Africa
25.04.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sorghum field in Kiboko, Kenya. (Photo: E Manyasa/ICRISAT) As part of the One CGIAR reform,…
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Finding opportunities in Africa’s aquaculture sector
23.04.22-
Food security
UK and African research institutions came together to host a webinar focused on challenges and…
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Good agronomic practices with sweetpotato are cause for celebration in Uganda
22.04.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Everyone smiled, grasped hands, and shook their heads in wonder. The excitement at Michael Mugabi’…
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AICCRA Ghana to unlock climate-smart innovations to farmers
22.04.22The Ghana cluster of the AICCRA (Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa) project…
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IITA-Mali receives Norad Director General
22.04.22IITA received a delegation from Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Royal …
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IAA takes nutrition interventions to the barracks
22.04.22The USAID-funded Feed-the-Future Nigeria Integrated Activity has flagged off a nutrition campaign fo…
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NIHORT to increase partnership scope with IITA
22.04.22IITA partners with both international and national organizations to transform African agriculture.…
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