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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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Identity marker nuances in adoption of tandem technologies: Beer, barley, livestock, and milk: who adopts agricultural innovations in rural Rajasthan?
21.12.21Learnings emanating from the Green Revolution in India indicate that the ability of development inte…
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Revising aquaculture curriculums to support youth in Zambia
20.12.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While Zambia’s aquaculture sector is growing considerably, which is largely contributed to the…
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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 side event discusses the role of informal markets within future food systems
20.12.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 took place on 7–8 December 2021. Ahead of the…
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Researchers map Ethiopia’s irrigated areas at a previously unavailable resolution
20.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Remote sensing data enables IWMI researchers to identify irrigated areas at a resolution of 30…
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The pandemic, labour migration and the roles of small-scale farming in rural Vietnam
17.12.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The impacts of COVID-19 have been various and multi-fold, reaching into every sector of our…
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Do international and national climate policies undermine peace and security? An expert discussion
17.12.21Frans Schapendonk, Giulia Caroli, Alice Taylor, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach Climate change has an…
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How can Agriculture Research for Development Inform the Sustainable Development Goals?
17.12.21-
Gender equality
While the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) is exploring the co-design of a 2022-24…
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Harnessing aquatic foods for sustainable healthy diets
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
The recent UN Food Systems Summit and COP26 generated a consensus around the urgent need…
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Policy seminar: Prospects for reforming agricultural support as WTO MC12 approaches
16.12.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SWATI MALHOTRA The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade of food and farm products, and…
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In the Spotlight: Surendran Rajaratnam
16.12.21WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests to shine a light on small-scale fisheries
16.12.21-
Nutrition
Small-scale fisheries are vital to the life and livelihoods of millions of people around the…
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Updated Pest Risk Atlas will build climate resilience for all
15.12.21The post Updated Pest Risk Atlas will build climate resilience for all appeared first on…
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COVID-19 school closures and adolescent mental health: Evidence from Mozambique
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Gender equality
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Health
BY JESSICA LEIGHT AND NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to…
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Ensuring long-term conservation of crop biodiversity
15.12.21With the world on track for an average temperature increase of more than 1.5 ºC and the popul…
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Clarifying some of the confusion about climate finance in COP26
13.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA Article 2 of the Paris Climate Agreement sets out the principal goals of …
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150 Farmer Promoters trained and empowered with a digital tool for BXW surveillance and control in Rwanda
13.12.21“It was not easy to identify BXW symptoms on a banana plant. We confused it…
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IITA amongst $100,000 Growth Grant Finalist for the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
13.12.21The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced IITA amongst the Growth Grand finalists …
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Research fellows call for partnership and research for agricultural transformation
13.12.21In line with IITA’s goal of transforming Africa’s Agriculture, the International Association of …
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