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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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Targeted Breeding to Defeat Drug Resistant Gastrointestinal Worms in Sheep
27.07.21Tuesday, July 27, 2021 By Dr. Mourad Rekik - Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Physiology Tunis…
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Crops to End Hunger: Accelerating Seed Delivery through Sustainable Seed Systems
26.07.21Looking ahead, food system researchers and national governments around the world are concerne…
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First high oleic groundnut cultivars commercialized in India
26.07.21There is a demand for high-oleic groundnut varieties particularly by the food processing industry fo…
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Strengthening Public Breeding Pipelines by Emphasizing Quantitative Genetics Principles and Open Source Data Management
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Big data
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Food security
This opinion piece published in Frontiers in Plant Science briefly presents the breeder's equation a…
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CRP-GLDC Golden Eggs contribute to ‘healthy diets’, ‘management tools and ‘scaling methods’
26.07.21What are Golden Eggs? The R4D “products” developed during 10 years of CGIAR’s Research Program…
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Cereal-legume value chain stakeholders in WCA meet to develop demand-driven and gender-responsive product profiles
26.07.21Under the AVISA project funded by the Gates Foundation and USAID, supported by CRP-GLDC ICRISAT’s…
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Breaking BXW
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Food security
As the coronavirus can quickly spread amongst the human population, the bacteria that causes Xanthom…
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New CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems
26.07.21Rome, Italy (July 26, 2021) – Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)…
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Scientific breakthrough shows promise for disease-resistant tilapia
24.07.21Researchers identified a region of the Nile tilapia genome associated with viral resilience, which c…
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Rwandan farmers help validate and disseminate new potato varieties
23.07.21The triadic comparisons of technologies – or tricot – approach is being used in a citizen-…
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An example of best practice
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Environmental health
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is contributing to make Mexico’s agr…
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Biodiversity in EU agricultural landscapes goes from science to strategy
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Biodiversity is a vital factor in agricultural landscapes, with an importance that cuts across the…
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Five actions to strengthen the contribution of fish to food systems in Zambia
23.07.21-
Nutrition
A review of the actions needed to enhance the contributions of fish and aquatic foods…
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Climate insurance solutions workshop held for industry professionals in Sri Lanka
23.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Experts in remote sensing shared the latest innovations in digital data with insurance professionals…
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Food system sustainability relies on potato’s “wild relatives”
22.07.21Looking ahead to the next 50 years, potato researchers and farmers have significant concerns about…
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Agrobiodiversity Index guides decisions in the private sector
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Any entity that wants to enhance and maintain agrobiodiversity for sustainable food systems – whe…
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Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia—Future directions for scaling up the project’s interventions
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Health
In June 2021, food safety experts from Cambodia and a research project team led by…
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T20 Climate Forum: The post-pandemic future of food
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY SWATI MALHOTRA On top of climate-driven shocks, conflicts, and economic stresses, the COVID-19 pa…
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