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The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Tan spot disease, caused by the fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, may be less well-known than oth…

The Alliance is transforming food markets in Latin America

Food security
Nutrition

By: Dylan Anderson-BerensThe Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitate…

Anouk Ride together with the Provincial Fisheries Office staff and cultural dance performers at the opening of a community-based resource management plan review workshop in Adadaitolo, North Malaita. Photo by Anouk Ride.

In the Spotlight: Anouk Ride

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Anouk Ride is WorldFish's social scientist based in the Solomon Islands. Ride's research focuses on…

A group of women working together to cultivate fish and vegetables in a community-based fisheries management in Bangladesh. Photo by CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh.

Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioral sciences

Climate adaptation & mitigation

WorldFish researcher Jacqueline D. Lau answers questions on her new publication exploring the role o…

A woman in her integrate aquaculture-agriculture homestead pond system in Bangladesh. Photo by M. Yousuf Tushar.

Diversifying aquaculture systems to nourish nations

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Nutrition

Shakuntala Thilsted, recipient of the 2021 World Food Prize, explains why diverse aquatic food produ…

Bold actions for gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems

28.07.21

Food security
Gender equality

BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Somewhere in rural South Asia, a very enterprising woman toils for about…

Climate-smart innovations provide a window of opportunity to transform aquatic food systems

International Potato Center (CIP)

28.07.21

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

In this op-ed, WorldFish scientist Dr. Peerzadi Rumana Hossain explains how aquatic food innovations…

Defeating potato late blight with farmers’ help in Uganda

27.07.21

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Successful innovation for agriculture will depend on thorough and careful understanding of the asp…

Protecting plants will protect people and the planet

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

27.07.21

Food security

Understanding the relationship between climate change and plant health is key to conserving biodiv…

solution against gastrointestinal worms in sheep.

Targeted Breeding to Defeat Drug Resistant Gastrointestinal Worms in Sheep

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

27.07.21

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 By Dr. Mourad Rekik - Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Physiology Tunis…

Crops to End Hunger: Accelerating Seed Delivery through Sustainable Seed Systems

International Potato Center (CIP)

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Looking ahead, food system researchers and national governments around the world are concerne…

First high oleic groundnut cultivars commercialized in India

CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)

There is a demand for high-oleic groundnut varieties particularly by the food processing industry fo…

Strengthening Public Breeding Pipelines by Emphasizing Quantitative Genetics Principles and Open Source Data Management

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Big data
Food security

This opinion piece published in Frontiers in Plant Science briefly presents the breeder's equation a…

CRP-GLDC Golden Eggs contribute to ‘healthy diets’, ‘management tools and ‘scaling methods’

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

What are Golden Eggs? The R4D “products” developed during 10 years of CGIAR’s Research Program…

Cereal-legume value chain stakeholders in WCA meet to develop demand-driven and gender-responsive product profiles

CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Under the AVISA project funded by the Gates Foundation and USAID, supported by CRP-GLDC ICRISAT’s…

Breaking BXW

Food security

As the coronavirus can quickly spread amongst the human population, the bacteria that causes Xanthom…

New CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems

CGIAR

Rome, Italy (July 26, 2021) – Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)…

A fish farmer poses with his genetically-improved tilapia in Odisha, India. Photo by Arabinda Mahapatra.

Scientific breakthrough shows promise for disease-resistant tilapia