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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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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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Wheat titan honored posthumously by India
27.01.22India has conferred posthumously upon Sanjaya Rajaram, 2014 World Food Prize laureate and former whe…
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IITA Tree Heritage Park awarded the 500th Level II accreditation by ARBNET
25.01.22The IITA Tree Heritage Park (THP), located within the IITA campus in Ibadan and managed by the Fo…
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IITA Gender Network to create more visibility for gender research in 2022
25.01.22The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) held its last quarterly meeting for the year on 8 December.…
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Researchers organize PVS workshop to improve African Yam Bean availability and enhance food security
25.01.22To ensure food security and improve the nutrition of Africans, the Genetic Resource Center (GRC)…
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Gender book launch: A significant shift in the drive towards gender equality
25.01.22The past decade has seen a renewed and more comprehensive interest in gender equality and…
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Orange-fleshed sweetpotato is key to positive change in Ethiopia
24.01.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Umer Yusuf is an energetic farmer living in Bishan Babilie in Ethiopia. Like many farmers…
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Emerging Youth: Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha
24.01.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Imoran Farms Nigeria L…
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Gender book launch: A significant shift in the drive towards gender equality
24.01.22The past decade has seen a renewed and more comprehensive interest in gender equality and…
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Dryland Intercropping of Lentil and Quinoa is Sustainable and Profitable
24.01.22A factsheet detailing ICARDA’s success at relay-cropping lentil and quinoa crops in Morocco has b…
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CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2020 annual report
23.01.22-
Food security
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Nutrition
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) published its 2020 annual…
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Food systems transformation pathways: Moving from traditional to modernizing food systems
23.01.22-
Food security
The authors map national food system transformations in a recently developed typology, using economi…
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An expert discussion on putting gender at the heart of climate security
21.01.22Giulia Caroli, Carolina Sarzana and Alice Taylor Climate change and related security risks, such…
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The links between food-related trade and fiscal policies and obesity rates in low- and middle-income countries
21.01.22-
Health
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Nutrition
BY KIBROM ABAY, HOSAM IBRAHIM, CLEMENS BREISINGER AND ALI ABDELHADI Global overweight and obesity ra…
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Potatoes in rice paddies?
20.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Sustainable intensification yields multiple benefits in China With approximately 19% of the global p…
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Honda to work with IITA in developing African agriculture
20.01.22The Honda Team from Ogun State visited IITA Headquarters on 8 December to strengthen the partnersh…
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Evaluation Case Study: CGIAR Ontologies Community Of Practice
20.01.22-
Big data
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Environmental health
Evaluations offer a chance for reflection, as well as an opportunity for improvement. They unravel…
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Impact stories attracting more agricultural investment from DR Congo and donors in 2022 – IITA DG
20.01.22“Telling the stories of the impact agricultural research is making in Africa can only generate…
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Are energy transitions a risk or opportunity for climate security? What the experts say
20.01.22Alice Taylor and Stefan Boessner The global energy system is at the centre of two…
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