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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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Food security
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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
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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A view from above
25.05.21-
Big data
Scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have been harnessing the…
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Survey: COVID-19’s varied impacts on fresh fruit and vegetable supply chains in Senegal
25.05.21-
Food security
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Health
BY ANNA FABRY,KAAT VAN HOYWEGHEN, HENDRIK FEYAERTS,IDRISSA WADE AND MIET MAERTENS There has been muc…
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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
25.05.21-
Food security
G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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New research published studying plants' diversity in arid and desert rangelands in Tunisia
25.05.21-
Biodiversity
Newly publish research explains how after an exceptional wet season in Tunisia in 2017/18, ICARDA…
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Innovative Food Systems Solutions portal launch: Healthy diets for all on a healthy planet
25.05.21-
Food security
Explore and contribute to the IFSS portal and connect to the global community working to…
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Buying into new seed
24.05.21-
Food security
The goal of the out-of-stock study is to improve an understanding of how farmers make…
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Biofortified sweetpotato making nutritious inroads in Zimbabwe
24.05.21Micronutrient malnutrition is a major public health problem in Zimbabwe: One in four children betw…
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Gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems: Consensus and gaps in the literature
24.05.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI, HAZEL MALAPIT, SARAH EISSLER AND JESSICA WALLACH A large volume of research…
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“Father of Hybrid Rice” Yuan Longping’s Legacy: An agricultural innovation that helps feed the world
24.05.21Rice is a staple food and provides 20% of the daily calorie needs of more…
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After COVID-19: Where next for Climate Resilient Agricultural Development in the Global South?
24.05.21Nafees Meah and Sheetal Sharma Global food production is required to increase between 50–70% by…
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Agriculture and biodiversity conservation: five critical factors for success
22.05.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May reminds us that "When…
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Four questions with CIMMYT’s Maize Genebank Curator
22.05.21-
Biodiversity
Seeds are a cornerstone of food security. That is why the maize and wheat genebanks…
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Dryland crop technology to rescue drought-hit crop-livestock farmers in Zimbabwe
21.05.21-
Food security
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Health
Climate change-induced droughts in Zimbabwe over the last two decades has hit resource-poor farmers …
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New tool that projects the future of coffee gives coffee producers recommendations that can help them strengthen their decision-making processes
21.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The global pandemic and extreme weather events have intensified the problems faced by small producer…
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A conservation conversation
21.05.21-
Biodiversity
Germplasm banks around the world are protectors of genetic diversity, altogether preserving roughly …
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Model: Impacts of the COVID-19-driven rise in global rice prices on consumers in Papua New Guinea
20.05.21-
Food security
BY EMILY SCHMIDT AND PAUL DOROSH In general, the COVID-19 pandemic has had only modest impacts…
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IRRI welcomes new Board of Trustees’ Chair and Vice-Chair
20.05.21Following the successful terms of IRRI Board of Trustees (BOT) Chair Jim Godfrey and Vice-Chair…
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AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping for Ethiopian and Uzbek Women
20.05.21-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Beekeeping has long been a traditional pursuit in Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, where smallholders…
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