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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
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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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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CGIAR Becomes an Official IATI Publisher
16.02.21This month, CGIAR achieved a major milestone by publishing an initial set of grants data to…
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Rejuvenation in Bundelkhand: how an upland watershed got its groundwater back
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Environmental health
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Food security
The world of water management is replete with stories about traditional systems that break down,…
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Q&A with Bernard Yada: Empowering National Agricultural Research Systems
16.02.21As senior research officer with Uganda’s National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI) Bern…
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The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT will deliver two freezers to Palmira to store COVID vaccines
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Health
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT…
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Graduate scaling great heights growing climbing bean in Uganda
15.02.21Fresh pod beans are becoming a popular source of protein among urban dwellers in Uganda.…
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Celebrating a fruitful partnership that spurred a millet movement in India
15.02.21If millets are regaining their lost place in Indian menus, considered as top contenders for…
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Climate-smart pigeonpea sparks phenomenal expansion across Malawi
15.02.21A whopping 49% increase in cropping area, 153 % increase in production and 68 %…
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Breaking through the 40% adoption ceiling: mind the seed system gaps
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Food security
A perspective from the RTB Seed Systems Community of Practice The promise is that growing…
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Q&A with Craig Yencho: Unleashing the Power of the Sweetpotato Genome
12.02.21As program leader of the sweetpotato and potato breeding and genetics programs at North Carolina…
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Classic milpa maize intercrop can help feed communities forgotten by development
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Nutrition
The traditional milpa intercrop — in which maize is grown together with beans, squash, or…
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African project highlights importance of legume crops on World Pulses Day
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Food security
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Nutrition
Could legumes be the key to food production sustainability and climate change resilience? They consu…
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Building capacity in crop modeling today for a better tomorrow
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Food security
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Health
Young Malawian researchers are being trained in crop modeling to tackle land, water and climate…
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CGIAR and France Strengthen their Partnership for Agricultural Research for Development
12.02.21In the lead up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), CGIAR and France…
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The crucial role of domestic and international market-mediated adaptation to climate change
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Environmental health
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Food security
Climate change effects on agricultural yields will be uneven over the world. A few countries,…
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Can sports and life skills programs improve labor force outcomes for vulnerable youth?
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY LORI BEAMAN, SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ, NIALL KELEHER AND JEREMY MAGRUDER Around the world, youth play…
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Agricultural Innovations in Ethiopia: 14 Recipients Selected for the SPIA Small Grant Call
11.02.21On 4th November 2020, SPIA issued a small grant call for proposals on the topic of Agricultural…
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In the Spotlight: Quennie Vi Rizaldo
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Quennie Vi Rizaldo is a Human Nutrition Specialist at WorldFish collaborating on the USAID-funded Fi…
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In the Spotlight: Bernadette Fregene
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fi…
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