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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-
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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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A life-changing experience with I-Youth – Series 1
06.08.21The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project has completed year 1 activities across vario…
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IITA and partners organize seed fair in Kano and Jigawa
06.08.21From 10 to 15 June, IITA and partners organized a joint seed fair in the northern Nigerian…
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How the Food Action Alliance designs and selects Flagships that take a food systems approach
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Food security
By: Dylan Anderson-Berens The Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative implemen…
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Transforming The Agricultural Research Agenda With Aquatic Foods
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Biodiversity
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Aquatic foods are not just good foods, they are superfoods with the power to nourish…
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The devolution revolution paradox: Greater accountability, lower spending on agricultural services
05.08.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DANIELLE RESNICK On July 28, local governments were given center stage at the United…
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COVID-19-induced disruptions of school feeding services exacerbate food insecurity in Nigeria
05.08.21-
Food security
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Health
BY KIBROM A. ABAY, MULUBRHAN AMARE, LUCA TIBERTI,KWAW S. ANDAM AND MICHAEL WANG COVID-19 has…
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Improving farmers’ livelihoods through upscaling best performing sorghum varieties for seed production and commercial products in western Kenya
04.08.21Farmers in Nyando, Kakamega and Vihiga, Western Kenya, are benefiting from the interventions of two…
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Inclusion, a key ingredient to Gender-Responsive Participatory Varietal Selection
04.08.21Getting the right traits and the suitable variety for different clients is never easy. Did…
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Farmers in South America’s Guyana have been battling climate change for years
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
A new collaboration between the Alliance and Guyanese partners provides guidance for climate-smart a…
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New solutions for chopping fodder
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is a laborious and time-consuming process: chopping plant matter by hand to feed to…
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Future banana health may depend on diversity from farmers’ fields
03.08.21-
Biodiversity
As one of the world’s most widely produced and consumed fruits and staple foods, bananas…
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Review of zoonoses research in the Horn of Africa highlights need for One Health approach and stronger regional collaboration
03.08.21-
Health
In the Horn of Africa, where pastoralism is an important livelihood activity, people live in…
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To build food security, reduce plastic use
02.08.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY JULIE KURTZ AND DREW SAMPLE Our food system has a plastic problem. Macro- and…
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Achievements of ICARDA and its National Partners in Date Palm Cultivation and Production
02.08.21-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On July 27, 2021, ICARDA's Director-General, Mr. Aly Abousabaa, led a scientific virtual lecture tit…
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New App brings Commodity Prices at Farmers' Fingertips
02.08.21-
Big data
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mon, 08/02/2021 “Kolfa” is a brand-new app which provides commodity price information to Tunisia…
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Golden eggs shine at One CGIAR Transfer Marketplace
02.08.21-
Food security
As One CGIAR takes shape it becomes critical to build on the progress already made.…
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CGIAR Annual Performance Report 2020 now available online
02.08.21The COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 a challenging year, placing considerable strain on global food …
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Scientists explore Bacillus strains to control fungus spread in bananas
30.07.21-
Environmental health
The Fusarium wilt TR4 is ravaging banana plantations around the world. The Alliance of Bioversity…
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