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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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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
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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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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Genome-wide association study puts tan spot-resistant genes in the spotlight
29.07.21Tan spot disease, caused by the fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, may be less well-known than oth…
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The Alliance is transforming food markets in Latin America
29.07.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
By: Dylan Anderson-BerensThe Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitate…
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In the Spotlight: Anouk Ride
29.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Anouk Ride is WorldFish's social scientist based in the Solomon Islands. Ride's research focuses on…
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Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioral sciences
29.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
WorldFish researcher Jacqueline D. Lau answers questions on her new publication exploring the role o…
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Diversifying aquaculture systems to nourish nations
29.07.21-
Nutrition
Shakuntala Thilsted, recipient of the 2021 World Food Prize, explains why diverse aquatic food produ…
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Bold actions for gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems
28.07.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Somewhere in rural South Asia, a very enterprising woman toils for about…
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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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