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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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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
31.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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Knowledge + passion: Women’s recipe in millet and sorghum production in Mali
26.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two women’s associations in Sikasso, Mali are changing the status of pearl millet and sorghum,…
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Timely, high-quality data are key for scaling up nutrition interventions
25.07.19-
Nutrition
To turn a commitment to scale up nutrition into reality, we need high-quality actionable data…
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The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
24.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Poor diets are now the No. 1 risk factor in the global burden of disease (GBD), accounting…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Taking a new and more comprehensive approach to quantify the impacts climate change will have…
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Digging deeper into gender and equity at ANH Academy Week
21.07.19-
Nutrition
At this year’s Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week held in Hyderabad, India in…
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Helping groundnut retain its place in Nigeria through the Tropical Legumes Project
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Alhaji Sani Usman remembers what being a groundnut farmer in Nigeria’s Kano state entailed a…
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Forman Lecture: Harold Alderman on the pathways between childhood nutrition and economic growth
16.07.19-
Nutrition
Investing in young children’s nutrition yields substantial economic benefits to society. But that …
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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
15.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
11.07.19-
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Nutrition
The national elections in India may well be over, but the persistent issue of malnutrition…
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A milestone in developing food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia
10.07.19-
Nutrition
Efforts to develop food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia reached a milestone in May 2019 when…
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AfricaRice hybrid rice varieties spark seed companies’ interest in Africa
09.07.19-
Biodiversity
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9 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. A set of four high-yielding hybrid rice varieties with…
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Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
04.07.19-
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Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local level…
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Rohingya in Bangladesh are surviving – but their long-term prospects are grim
02.07.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Note: Join us July 10 as the authors and other participants discuss their survey of…
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A day to remember: Scientists and processors exchange on the changes in the cassava value chain in Colombia over the past 20 years
01.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
With funding from the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Research Program (RTB), the International Center for…
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Long-standing partnership with Myanmar strengthened
28.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, has enhanced its partnership with ICRISAT for…
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Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lad…
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The case for rushing farmer access to BARI Gom 33
26.06.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In 2016, the emergence of wheat blast, a devastating seed- and wind-borne pathogen, threatened an a…
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