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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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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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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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Examining the gendered impacts of cash transfers on migration in Mali
15.09.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MELISSA HIDROBO,VALERIE MUELLER,SHALINI ROY AND MICHAEL WANG Migration is a crucial element for e…
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Coconut tree cloning breakthrough will help propagation and preservation
15.09.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Coconut trees grow slowly and are difficult to clone. Scientists at KU Leuven and the…
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UNFSS solution cluster puts aquatic foods at the center of food systems transformation
15.09.21-
Nutrition
Aquatic foods are the cornerstone of diets, livelihoods and cultures of many poor and vulnerable…
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Guyana’s farming future in the climate crisis: much can be done
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In our second of a two-part series on the challenges facing farmers in Guyana, we…
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Experts discuss strategies to improve food safety in traditional markets in Asia Pacific
13.09.21-
Health
On 1–2 September 2021, the World Health Organization regional office for Southeast Asia and the…
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Free webinar series fuels Africa’s aquaculture sector
11.09.21WorldFish partners with leading African aquaculture magazine to produce a free webinar series to edu…
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Roots, tubers and bananas: vital to the One CGIAR portfolio!
10.09.21-
Food security
Roots, tubers and bananas are the foundation of food security for millions of people across…
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DG receives prestigious award for championing youth in agriculture programs
09.09.21The Association of Deans of Agriculture in Nigeria Universities (ADAN) has honored IITA Director G…
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IITA GHU staff awarded Crop Trust’s outstanding Genebank Team (GHU Category) 2021
09.09.21Crop Trust and the CGIAR Genebank Platform have recognized four staff from the IITA Germplasm He…
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NARITA hybrids cross borders for farmers’ evaluation in Kenya
09.09.21In improving banana production in East Africa countries, researchers are multiplying and testing for…
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Assistant Director, President’s Office, praises IITA research in Tanzania
09.09.21The Assistant Director for Technical Cooperation at the President’s Office, Public Service Managem…
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IITA kicks off project to transform livelihoods and conservation
09.09.21IITA has commenced a 3-year participatory research project to identify transformative approaches to…
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IITA partners with other organizations to improve the vitamin A status of Nigerians
09.09.21The Modified Relative Dose Response (MRDR) test is being conducted as part of the ongoing…
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Do we need an IPCC for food?
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Food security
An intergovernmental body that sets Paris Agreement-style targets for global food system transformat…
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Artificial Intelligence delivers solutions to farmers
09.09.21-
Food security
A collaboration between the Alliance and tech start-up GoMicro demonstrates practical applications o…
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Breaking barriers to youth engagement in aquatic food systems
09.09.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new strategic brief shows aquatic food systems have the potential to provide livelihood opportunit…
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ICARDA Signs MOU with the Islamic Organization for Food Security
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Food security
During the Fourth General Assembly of the Islamic Organization for Food Security, ICARDA’s Direct…
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ICRISAT awarded 2021 Africa Food Prize
08.09.21-
Food security
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Health
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been awarded the …
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