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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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-
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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Hope for Tanzanian banana farmers with the official release of new “matooke” hybrids
06.08.21Tanzania has officially released four new, improved hybrids of the important staple cooking banana, …
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New crop-livestock technologies to mitigate conflict between crop and livestock farmers in DRC
06.08.21More than 20 farmers from Katogota and Kamanyola in the Ruzizi plain of South Kivu…
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IITA Forest Center prepares trainers for Olokemeji School Conservation Clubs
06.08.21As the Olokemeji reforestation project swings into full gear, the IITA Forest Center held its fir…
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YIIFSWA II hands over project outputs to GoSeed for post-project sustainability
06.08.21The Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa Phase II (YIIFSWA II) project has…
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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
06.08.21-
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
06.08.21-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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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
04.08.21-
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
03.08.21-
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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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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