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New CGIAR Evidence Sets Out Blueprint for a Low-Carbon, Regenerative and Equitable Food System Transition at COP30
10.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
As countries prepare to gather in Belém for COP30, CGIAR today launched seven new evidence-based…
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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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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
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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IITA among $100,000 Growth Grant finalist for Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
22.11.21The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced that IITA is among the Growth Grand finali…
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ENABLE-TAAT facilitating youth access to credit through partnerships
22.11.21Budding youth-led enterprises often find it challenging to raise capital. In many cases, such enterp…
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International, multi-stakeholder alliance continue to tackle banana bunchy top disease in Africa
22.11.21Up to 16 African countries have now experienced the banana bunchy top disease (BBTD), caused…
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The future of potatoes in Georgia is youthful business
22.11.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Giorgi Khitarishvili started potato farming with his parents when he was five years old, living…
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C. Woermann Nigeria and IITA-BIP collaborate to launch a showroom of yield-improving agricultural tools
22.11.21On 22 October, C. Woermann Nigeria and STIHL Company in Germany partnered with IITA’s Business In…
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ENABLE-TAAT launches demo fields at 12 NYSC orientation camps
22.11.21To provide agribusiness support to youth, ENABLE-TAAT has established agribusiness demonstration far…
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IITA partners with VOWDA to ensure agricultural transformation among women
22.11.21The Voice of Women in the Development of Agriculture (VOWDA), in collaboration with IITA, organized…
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SWEAN project trains women entrepreneurs in Zaria and Ibadan
22.11.21Support Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood sector in Nigeria (SWEAN) has concluded the training …
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Nigerian government grants internet and community radio licenses to IITA
22.11.21The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved two radio licenses for IITA—an Internet radio licen…
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IITA-Tanzania hosts Member of Parliament
22.11.21A Special Seats Member of Parliament, Hon. Neema Lungangira, visited IITA at its Eastern Africa re…
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IITA Forest Center biodiversity watch: The African House Snake
22.11.21One of the vast benefits of the IITA forest reserve is the diversity of creatures the forest…
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Existing climate strategies ignore fisheries at our peril
22.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The most visible and tangible signs of climate change tend to be above water, from…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
21.11.21-
Food security
Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by IC…
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COP26’s Huge Strides towards Climate-Friendly Agriculture
21.11.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
COP26, the 26th yearly round of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate negotiati…
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The big zoom-out: Monitoring river health at the global scale
20.11.21-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Traditional river health monitoring is carried out in situ, with habitats and species assessed at…
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World Toilet Day 2021: An interview with Olufunke Cofie
19.11.21-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leadership and governance systems must provide an enabling environment for the scaling of improved s…
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Participatory approaches key to unlocking the benefits of aquatic foods
18.11.21-
Food security
Fish-based livelihoods are the backbone of Pacific island economies, offering a critical source of f…
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COP26 missed an opportunity to build peace through climate action
17.11.21Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets Dr Mohammad Shtayyeh, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authorit…
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