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CGIAR supports innovative new Brazil-led accelerator RAIZ
20.11.25Launched at UNFCCC COP30 in Belém, the RAIZ accelerator will unite governments and investors behind…
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Over USD 142 million pledged at COP30 to advance CGIAR’s mission of a food-secure future
15.11.25COP30 Delegates at the Embrapa/Gates Foundation Innovation Showcase The United Kingdom, Belgium, Den…
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The National (UAE): Brazil's Cop30 summit has high hopes for the planet - but will it signal a green future?
12.11.25CGIAR Executive Managing Director Ismahane Elouafi explains in an article in The National ahead of…
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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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Join Ismahane Elouafi at the CNN Global Perspectives - Soil to Scale event
05.11.25Join Ismahane Elouafi discussing pathways to resileint food systems in Africa at the CNN Soil…
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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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IITA joins with Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture to organize starch stakeholders’ meeting to expand cassava commercialization
20.01.22As part of efforts to realize the national cassava commercialization strategy, IITA, through the BES…
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Minister lauds five-year program in Northern Tanzania for which IITA provided technical support
20.01.22The Tanzania Minister of Agriculture, Hon Prof Adolph Mkenda, has praised the efforts and impacts…
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SEFAN/SWEAN project stakeholders hold roundtable in Abuja
20.01.22A two-day round table of stakeholders in Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training (AT…
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STEP Agri-Competition: IITA encourages participation of younger generation in agriculture
20.01.22To attract, retain, and change the perception of young people about agriculture, the Start Them Ear…
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IITA Tree Heritage Park accredited by ARBNET
20.01.22The IITA Tree Heritage Park (THP), located within the campus of the International Institute of…
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NEMEDUSSA Consortium Advancing Nematology Education in Sub-Sahara Africa
20.01.22To develop the research and educational capacity in Sub-Sahara Africa in the field of nematology,…
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BASICS-II and AGRA to collaborate in scaling cassava seed systems in Nigeria
20.01.22The Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, phase 2 (BASICS-II) project…
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Climate migration and social transformation: embracing complexity
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
Unpredictable rainfall patterns, droughts and floods linked to climate change are increasingly drivi…
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Scientific evidence shows eating millets leads to better growth in children
19.01.22Researchers examining the nutritional benefits of millets have found that these “smart foods” ca…
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Farmers in southern Mali dial ‘S’ for success
19.01.22Sènèkèla/Sandji mobile-based services make climate and agro-advisory information available to far…
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Climate change slows wheat breeding progress for yield and wide adaptation, new study finds
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nearly four decades of repeated crossing and selection for heat and drought tolerance have greatly…
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Crop breeders in eastern Africa modernize to end regional hunger
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Food security
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Nutrition
A quiet transformation is underway at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organisation (…
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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit: Leveraging Japanese knowledge to address global health and nutrition challenges
14.01.22-
Health
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Nutrition
BY SWATI MALHOTRA,FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI AND HIROYUKI TAKESHIMA As many developing countries face enormous…
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Why winning the ‘water game’ in India requires team effort
14.01.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
Water isn't just a natural resource; it is also a peoples' resource, shared between communities,…
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Empowering female farmers through improved access to water technologies
13.01.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Solar irrigation technology has the potential to empower more than 12 million women farmers across…
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Canopy temperature provides novel insights into potato yields and efficient water use
12.01.22A new potato or sweetpotato variety represents only the “tip of the iceberg,” concealing hundred…
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What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT,ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN During the past several years, we have…
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Improved varieties sow a better future in Mali’s groundnut hubs
11.01.22Improved varieties are helping increase groundnut production, farm incomes, improving lives and empo…
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