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Over USD 142 million pledged at COP30 to advance CGIAR’s mission of a food-secure future
15.11.25COP30 Delegates at the Embrapa/Gates Foundation Innovation Showcase The United Kingdom, Belgium, Den…
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Brazil's Cop30 summit has high hopes for the planet - but will it signal a green future?
12.11.25CGIAR Executive Managing Director Ismahane Elouafi explains in an article in The National ahead of…
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New CGIAR Evidence Sets Out Blueprint for a Low-Carbon, Regenerative and Equitable Food System Transition at COP30
10.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
As countries prepare to gather in Belém for COP30, CGIAR today launched seven new evidence-based…
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Join Ismahane Elouafi at the CNN Global Perspectives - Soil to Scale event
05.11.25Join Ismahane Elouafi discussing pathways to resileint food systems in Africa at the CNN Soil…
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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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Halleluya Farm Estate to scale-up crop production through IITA’s expertise
07.06.22On 24 May, the Halleluya Techno-based Agro Farm Estate team visited IITA. The team, which launched…
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Genome editing: New breeding tool with potential to sustain agriculture in Africa
07.06.22Climate change affects the environment extensively in socioeconomic and related sectors, including a…
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IITA and partners launch Postharvest Reduction Project
07.06.22IITA recently launched a project on reducing postharvest losses across the Vitamin A cassava (VAC) …
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IITA and Ogun State Ministry of Agriculture, Nigeria, to co-develop a digital agriculture platform
07.06.22IITA and the Ogun Ministry of Agriculture met recently to discuss a #digital agriculture project t…
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Gender research activities in IITA contribute to African rural development
07.06.22IITA seeks to carry out cutting-edge gender research in agriculture. During a seminar on 13 May,…
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Newly-identified rice varieties could deliver genetic gain and farm productivity in India
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers in India have identified new rice varieties that could adapt to specific requirements of…
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IITA and DG Sanginga receive excellence awards from Circularity Africa
07.06.22The Interconnections for Making Africa Great Empowered and Sustainable (IMAGES) Initiative, in col…
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Partnerships: IITA visits NIHORT to strengthen collaboration
07.06.22As part of IITA’s activities in ensuring good collaboration with partners, Kenton Dashiell, IITA…
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Fostering the adoption of sustainable rice straw innovations in Vietnam through private sector engagement
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Loc Troi Agricultural Research Institute si…
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IITA Forest Center wins AFR100 grant to plant trees
07.06.22The TerraFund for AFR100 has awarded the IITA Forest Center another grant to reforest 300 hectare…
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana: Disclosure Notice for Labor Management Procedures
07.06.22Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project being implemented in…
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Protecting and restoring our oceans for future generations
07.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface. It is central to the production…
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Examining patterns and drivers of catch in the Solomon Islands for better fisheries management
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While coastal fisheries are vital to life and livelihoods in the Pacific, they are notoriously…
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Improving child nutrition in Bangladesh through cooking demonstrations
07.06.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
WorldFish organized cooking demonstrations in 15 villages in the Rajshahi and Rangpur districts – …
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WorldFish’s Fish for Africa Innovation Hub serves as a one-stop destination for the region
07.06.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Egypt aims to develop its aquatic foods sector to fulfill the food and nutrition needs…
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The vital roles of aquatic foods in the global food system
07.06.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Though capture fisheries constitute the largest wild-food resource, providing a critical nutrient-ri…
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New project to deploy climate information services to African fish farmers
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
While climate change threatens food systems globally, African agriculture is particularly susceptibl…
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Reviewing the impacts of microplastics on aquatic food safety in Bangladesh
07.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Dried fish is a staple of food in Bangladesh. In the coastal South Asian nation,…
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