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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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To close its labor gender gap, India must address its data gap
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authored by Ranjitha Puskur This op-ed was first published by Al Jazeera on March 8,…
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Power steering
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Protected from the harsh midday sun with a hat, Pramila Mondal pushes behind the roaring…
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Consider the seed
09.03.21The conservation of plant genetic diversity through germplasm conservation is a key component of glo…
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New approaches to breed more inclusive crop varieties
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Gender equality
New crop varieties can help farmers thrive in difficult agricultural conditions, feed families and c…
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Banking on indigenous seed: investing in a healthier future
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Nutrition
Vihiga, Kenya: researchers and farmers have established a community seedbank to cultivate traditiona…
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‘Bringing a change’ in women’s equitable involvement in aquaculture
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This blogpost highlights 2020 research outputs of the WorldFish gender theme as part of the…
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The transformative value of maize
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The state of Odisha, in the east of India, ranks sixth in rice production in…
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Perceptions data can help us challenge sexist norms around land and housing
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Gender equality
On the International Women’s Day – and every day – we must call out gender bias wherever w…
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Five-in-Five Blog Series: #1 The importance of an inclusive environment in wheat research
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To mark International Women’s Day, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)…
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Coffee, chat and climate: International Women's Day 2021
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
This International Women's Day, join Kitty, Louise and Rebecca for a coffee break, where they chat…
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Climate security demands a gender lens for an equal future
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Interview with Giulia Caroli, Visiting Researcher at CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security by Nina de Ayala…
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Crop innovation: Mitigating the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
08.03.21Adopting drought-tolerant (DT) maize varieties has helped lift millions of people above Africa’s p…
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Now available: The project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Distance Learning Module
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Gender equality
Empowered women make their own life choices. About family, finances, farming—and much more. Many d…
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CGIAR GENDER Platform newsletter for International Women's Day 2021
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Gender equality
On the occasion of International Women's Day 2021, the CGIAR GENDER Platform newsletter features the…
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6 aquatic food system innovations transforming women’s livelihoods
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WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health, Aquatic Food Systems, and Vice Chair of…
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Challenging our understanding of women and natural resources
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We may have moved some way from the technocratic management of natural resources. But, more…
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Revival of groundnut production continues to change lives of smallholder farmers in Northern Nigeria
08.03.21In a remarkable turnaround, farmers in Northern Nigeria organized themselves into innovation platfor…
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Investing in rural women farmers narrows the gender gap in agriculture
08.03.21The glaring inequality between men and women farmers in the African agricultural sector is alarming…
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