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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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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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Waging war against the fall armyworm
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Food security
The fall armyworm is an invasive pest that eats more than 80 different crops, but…
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World Food Prize Laureate shares how to move from feeding to nourishing at CGIAR Council
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Nutrition
Shakuntala Thilsted advises the CGIAR Council to move research efforts beyond the quantity of food…
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Annual Report 2020 launched
06.07.21We began 2020 with grim news of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading from country to country,…
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Top 10 reads on gender and value chains
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Gender equality
A series of recommended reading lists provide starting points for researchers, students, practitione…
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From eyebrow beans to ‘lost’ rice: community seedbanks are protecting China’s crops
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Despite being relatively new in China, community-led seedbanks are a valuable resource in conserving…
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Call for applications for the CGIAR Gender Researchers’ Leadership and Mentoring Program
06.07.21-
Gender equality
The CGIAR Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results (GENDER) Platform, in collabo…
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Data from new Excellence in Breeding report reveals progress on CGIAR’s transformation
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Food security
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Health
A new compilation of data reveals real progress on CGIAR’s crop breeding transformation agenda. …
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ILRI research generates evidence for better prevention and control of zoonotic diseases
06.07.21-
Health
World Zoonoses Day, celebrated annually on 6 July, commemorates the day in 1885 when Louis…
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Food System Transformation Needs to Work for All: Why Youth in the Semi-Arid Drylands are Underserved in Agriculture
05.07.21Opportunities and challenges facing African youth especially in the semi-arid drylands have recently…
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ICRISAT optimizes seed-chip genotyping in groundnut
05.07.21Chips away time and cost from groundnut breeding. Researchers at ICRISAT have established seed-chip …
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Farmer preferred, market demanded and highly nutritious beans to boost Rwanda’s household diets and wealth
05.07.21Rwanda has one of the highest per capita consumption in the world, confirming that beans…
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A new dawn for agriculture with the reintroduction of 4K Clubs in Kenyan schools
05.07.21The average age of a Kenyan farmer is approximately 60 years. With a growing human…
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Identifying market segments and aligning breeding pipelines will focus CGIAR investments
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There is an urgent need for public breeding programs to prioritize and focus their efforts.…
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Building Food System Country Profiles to support decision-making in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food security
Much of the work on food systems to date has relied on fragmented and disparate…
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New study explores wet markets and the risk of emerging zoonotic diseases
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In Asia, live animals as well as animal products are commonly sold in traditional markets,…
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Agriculture: The key to state-level development in Nigeria
04.07.21IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga has highlighted the need for state governments in Nigeria to…
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IITA partners with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enhance women’s livelihoods
04.07.21On 11 June, IITA officially launched the Support to Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood Sector …
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IITA research fellows to partner with national research institutes for development
04.07.21The International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows (IARSAF) at IITA went on a working …
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