News
Featured news
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
-
Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more
Filters
-
Breeding nutritious sweetpotatoes in Zambia
08.07.21Dr. Martin Chiona is plant breeder and head of the root and tuber research team at the…
Read more -
RTB and Agrilinks team up to showcase root, tuber and banana contribution to food and nutrition security
08.07.21-
Food security
During May 2021, the importance of root, tuber and banana crops was highlighted by Agrilinks,…
Read more -
-
Developing sustainable fish feed for healthy people and planet
08.07.21-
Food security
-
Nutrition
New fish feed formulations work to nourish both fish and their pond ecosystems using locally…
Read more -
-
Waging war against the fall armyworm
07.07.21-
Food security
The fall armyworm is an invasive pest that eats more than 80 different crops, but…
Read more -
-
World Food Prize Laureate shares how to move from feeding to nourishing at CGIAR Council
07.07.21-
Food security
-
Health
-
Nutrition
Shakuntala Thilsted advises the CGIAR Council to move research efforts beyond the quantity of food…
Read more -
-
Annual Report 2020 launched
06.07.21We began 2020 with grim news of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading from country to country,…
Read more -
Top 10 reads on gender and value chains
06.07.21-
Gender equality
A series of recommended reading lists provide starting points for researchers, students, practitione…
Read more -
-
From eyebrow beans to ‘lost’ rice: community seedbanks are protecting China’s crops
06.07.21-
Biodiversity
-
Food security
Despite being relatively new in China, community-led seedbanks are a valuable resource in conserving…
Read more -
-
Call for applications for the CGIAR Gender Researchers’ Leadership and Mentoring Program
06.07.21-
Gender equality
The CGIAR Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results (GENDER) Platform, in collabo…
Read more -
-
Data from new Excellence in Breeding report reveals progress on CGIAR’s transformation
06.07.21-
Food security
-
Health
A new compilation of data reveals real progress on CGIAR’s crop breeding transformation agenda. …
Read more -
-
ILRI research generates evidence for better prevention and control of zoonotic diseases
06.07.21-
Health
World Zoonoses Day, celebrated annually on 6 July, commemorates the day in 1885 when Louis…
Read more -
-
Food System Transformation Needs to Work for All: Why Youth in the Semi-Arid Drylands are Underserved in Agriculture
05.07.21Opportunities and challenges facing African youth especially in the semi-arid drylands have recently…
Read more -
ICRISAT optimizes seed-chip genotyping in groundnut
05.07.21Chips away time and cost from groundnut breeding. Researchers at ICRISAT have established seed-chip …
Read more -
Farmer preferred, market demanded and highly nutritious beans to boost Rwanda’s household diets and wealth
05.07.21Rwanda has one of the highest per capita consumption in the world, confirming that beans…
Read more -
A new dawn for agriculture with the reintroduction of 4K Clubs in Kenyan schools
05.07.21The average age of a Kenyan farmer is approximately 60 years. With a growing human…
Read more -
Identifying market segments and aligning breeding pipelines will focus CGIAR investments
05.07.21-
Big data
-
Food security
There is an urgent need for public breeding programs to prioritize and focus their efforts.…
Read more -
-
Building Food System Country Profiles to support decision-making in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
05.07.21-
Food security
Much of the work on food systems to date has relied on fragmented and disparate…
Read more -
-
New study explores wet markets and the risk of emerging zoonotic diseases
05.07.21-
Health
In Asia, live animals as well as animal products are commonly sold in traditional markets,…
Read more -