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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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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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Former WorldFish researcher awarded prize for young career scientists
09.10.21Jessica Bogard, a dietician and public health nutritionist from Australia, was awarded the 2021 APEC…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
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Nutrition
HIGHLIGHTS Researchers call for the integration of fisheries into rice systems and irrigation scheme…
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Policy seminar: AATM report outlines opportunities and challenges for intra-African agricultural trade
07.10.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SWATI MALHOTRA African agricultural trade has yet to reach its potential, despite progress over…
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Alliance and FAO celebrate International Year for Fruits and Vegetables
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Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate the International Year for Fruits and Vegetables, the Alliance teamed up with the…
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National breeding institutes deliver initial program costing at in-person training course
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Big data
A new costing tool is helping national breeding programs get the financial data needed to impr…
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Diverse aquatic food production key to sustainable diets, finds new research
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Nutrition
A landmark study has shown significant potential for aquatic foods to become more sustainable, compa…
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DROUGHT-PROOFING BUNDELKHAND: Reviving rainwater harvesting traditions
06.10.21How is Bundelkhand drought-proofed? ICRISAT has developed an innovative landscape management approac…
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Scaling groundnut and sorghum seed in Eastern Africa (Tanzania)
06.10.21The Innovation Fund from the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC)…
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Understanding characteristics, causes, and consequences of migration: Contributions from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is estimated that nearly one in seven people — more than 1 billion in…
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Heat shocks linked to lower maize yields and reduced child height: Evidence from Tanzania
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY STEVEN BLOCK,BELIYOU HAILE, LIANGZHI YOU AND DEREK HEADEY The growing threat that climate shocks…
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ICARDA and Cairo Water Week 24-28th October
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Every year ICARDA participates at Cairo Water Week (CWW), where global experts come together to…
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CGIAR Priority Interventions to Accelerate Uptake of Research to Rebuild and Strengthen Africa’s Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change
04.10.21Better alignment to the needs and priorities of African countries; Demand-driven partnerships; Using…
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CGIAR spells out priority interventions to accelerate uptake of research to rebuild and strengthen Africa’s agriculture in the face of climate change
02.10.21Better alignment to the needs and priorities of African countries, demand-driven partnerships to usi…
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Transforming agri-food systems for rural prosperity through scaling an innovative ‘Seed Consortium’ towards higher adoption and impacts
01.10.21Background: Grown on 4.0 M ha, postrainy sorghum is the lifeline of dryland farmers in…
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Using machine learning technology for sustainable coffee farming in Vietnam
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As most of the world relies on coffee, producers, roasters, and investors are becoming more…
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Bangladeshi actress Jannatul Peya champions women in aquatic food systems
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Gender equality
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WorldFish's initiative to increase women's empowerment through small fish production in Banglades…
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How does the Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitated in Latin America by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, relate to United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)
01.10.21-
Food security
By: Dylan Anderson-BerensPrevious blogs in this series introduced the Food Action Alliance (FAA), it…
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What can international agricultural research for development learn from the Andhra Pradesh chickpea revolution?
30.09.21This blog highlights findings from a recently published articled by Glover, D., Mausch, K., Conti,…
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