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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
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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
14.05.25<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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New CIMMYT maize hybrids available from Eastern Africa breeding program
29.01.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of elite,…
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Breaking barriers to uptake of improved sorghum in Burkina Faso, one social media post at a time
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A small number of farmers pioneering seed production of a novel sorghum variety in Burkina…
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WIRES: Newly launched platform to connect and inspire women in research across CGIAR
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new employee-led group, formed to support and celebrate women in science and research at…
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Protecting plants, protecting people
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Among the many challenges posed by climate change and its impacts on agriculture, improving plant…
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Toward a sustainable coffee future in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
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Biodiversity
Through extensive research and international collaboration, the Alliance supports work to make coffe…
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Inspiring Ethiopian youth to adopt smart farming
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Nutrition
Youth in the highlands of Ethiopia have been encouraged to take up farming by participation…
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Refugees demand for energy can be met!
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, with about 1,425,040 people who mostly soug…
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Gender research rightfully takes center stage in new One CGIAR strategy
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Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 2021—Gender equality is rightfully elevated to a top priority in a…
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Ethiopia’s social safety net effective in limiting COVID-19 impacts on rural food insecurity
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY KIBROM A. ABAY, GUUSH BERHANE, JOHN HODDINOTT AND KIBROM TAFERE Multiple studies have documented…
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Harness ‘power of landscapes’ to fix health and environmental challenges, report says
28.01.21Governments must act on the vast benefits of conservation and support the rights of people…
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SweetGAINS in Sweetpotato Breeding
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Plant breeder Dr. Jolien Swanckaert is part of a team committed to revolutionizing plant breeding…
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Policy seminar: Tackling the double burden of malnutrition with double-duty actions
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Food security
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Nutrition
The double burden of malnutrition—the combination of undernutrition (stunting, wasting, and micron…
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Using Causal Impact Evidence When Scaling Agricultural Innovations: The Promise of Private Partnerships
27.01.21In their feedback to the OneCGIAR Research Strategy, SPIA emphasized the need to have rigorous…
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MAIZE delivers “valuable solutions” for critical needs, according to an external review
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Food security
The CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) “uniquely fills a gap at the global and…
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Using priming experiments to better understand gender attitudes
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Gender equality
by Katrina Kosec, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Emily Schmidt, and Jie Song Sticky gender attitudes? Research…
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CGIAR breeding brings major returns on investment, finds study
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Food security
Governments and foundations investing in CGIAR are seeing extraordinary value for money, according t…
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Book: Global perspectives on agricultural development
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY KEIJIRO OTSUKA AND SHENGGEN FAN While agricultural development has long been linked to increased…
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ICARDA's New Video Series on Cactus Pear Production
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Biodiversity
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ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at…
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