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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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Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
26.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
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Avocados in Kenya: What’s holding back smallholder farmers
18.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya is the world’s third largest producer of avocados. It’s also Kenya’s leading fruit exp…
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International Women’s Day 2020
17.02.20-
Gender equality
“ I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights” For IWD 2020, the CGIAR GENDER…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
14.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A Seed Revolving Fund initiative for sorghum and groundnut value chains has been launched in…
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Breeding for Better Gender Equity
13.02.20-
Gender equality
A pilot study to validate tools that will help breeders to pay more attention to…
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Projects funded by Germany make a difference to people, trees, ecology
12.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Grants from BMZ enrich and push boundaries at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Each year, seeking ‘innov…
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After 10 years, Triple S has brought back sweetpotato to us
11.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
1st Amburse Kebele in East Badewacho district was once known as a prolific sweetpotato…
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Fireflies, food and future systems – scientists share inspiration behind choosing science as a lifestyle
10.02.20-
Gender equality
Plant breeding, genetics, math and software development are all stereotypically male fields. For too…
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India’s 16-point agriculture plan may falter if it doesn’t focus on incentives
10.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
One of the great examples that economists give on the power of incentives in Econ…
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Women in Science: Tackling Global Issues
10.02.20-
Gender equality
For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, eleven researchers share how their work addr…
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After 10 years, Triple S has brought back sweetpotato to us
07.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
1st Amburse Kebele in East Badewacho district was once known as a prolific sweetpotato growing…
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Why gender matters for soil health as part of sustainable food systems
05.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
While healthy soils play a critical role in supporting agricultural productivity, climate change mit…
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Include small indigenous productions systems to improve rural livelihoods
04.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Uni…
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'Getting gender right' is essential for the sustainability of food systems
04.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
The growing emphasis on sustainability of food systems (rather than of agriculture alone) highlights…
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Leaving the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: India’s missed opportunity?
03.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In November, India decided to opt out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP),…
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The importance of supporting women farmers
30.01.20-
Gender equality
The potato is an increasingly important crop among smallholder farmers in Africa, where production h…
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‘Phygital’ tech powered by public-private partnerships promises climate solutions for Nigerian agriculture
24.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An innovative technology that bridges digital approaches and physical interventions on farms and off…
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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
17.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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