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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
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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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Climate-smart innovations provide a window of opportunity to transform aquatic food systems
28.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In this op-ed, WorldFish scientist Dr. Peerzadi Rumana Hossain explains how aquatic food innovations…
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Defeating potato late blight with farmers’ help in Uganda
27.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Successful innovation for agriculture will depend on thorough and careful understanding of the asp…
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Protecting plants will protect people and the planet
27.07.21-
Food security
Understanding the relationship between climate change and plant health is key to conserving biodiv…
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Targeted Breeding to Defeat Drug Resistant Gastrointestinal Worms in Sheep
27.07.21Tuesday, July 27, 2021 By Dr. Mourad Rekik - Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Physiology Tunis…
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Crops to End Hunger: Accelerating Seed Delivery through Sustainable Seed Systems
26.07.21Looking ahead, food system researchers and national governments around the world are concerne…
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First high oleic groundnut cultivars commercialized in India
26.07.21There is a demand for high-oleic groundnut varieties particularly by the food processing industry fo…
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Strengthening Public Breeding Pipelines by Emphasizing Quantitative Genetics Principles and Open Source Data Management
26.07.21-
Big data
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Food security
This opinion piece published in Frontiers in Plant Science briefly presents the breeder's equation a…
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CRP-GLDC Golden Eggs contribute to ‘healthy diets’, ‘management tools and ‘scaling methods’
26.07.21What are Golden Eggs? The R4D “products” developed during 10 years of CGIAR’s Research Program…
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Cereal-legume value chain stakeholders in WCA meet to develop demand-driven and gender-responsive product profiles
26.07.21Under the AVISA project funded by the Gates Foundation and USAID, supported by CRP-GLDC ICRISAT’s…
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Breaking BXW
26.07.21-
Food security
As the coronavirus can quickly spread amongst the human population, the bacteria that causes Xanthom…
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New CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems
26.07.21Rome, Italy (July 26, 2021) – Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)…
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Scientific breakthrough shows promise for disease-resistant tilapia
24.07.21Researchers identified a region of the Nile tilapia genome associated with viral resilience, which c…
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Rwandan farmers help validate and disseminate new potato varieties
23.07.21The triadic comparisons of technologies – or tricot – approach is being used in a citizen-…
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An example of best practice
23.07.21-
Environmental health
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is contributing to make Mexico’s agr…
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Biodiversity in EU agricultural landscapes goes from science to strategy
23.07.21-
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Biodiversity is a vital factor in agricultural landscapes, with an importance that cuts across the…
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Five actions to strengthen the contribution of fish to food systems in Zambia
23.07.21-
Nutrition
A review of the actions needed to enhance the contributions of fish and aquatic foods…
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Climate insurance solutions workshop held for industry professionals in Sri Lanka
23.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Experts in remote sensing shared the latest innovations in digital data with insurance professionals…
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Food system sustainability relies on potato’s “wild relatives”
22.07.21Looking ahead to the next 50 years, potato researchers and farmers have significant concerns about…
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