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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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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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Drought-tolerant maize project pioneers a winning strategy for a world facing climate change
24.02.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Since the 1980s, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International…
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Review of CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas highlights outstanding achievements
24.02.21-
Food security
A review of Phase 2 (2017–2019) of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and…
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US leadership needed to end world hunger, urge World Food Prize Laureates
24.02.21-
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A group of 24 World Food Prize winners from across the globe, dedicated to transforming food syste…
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Five big steps toward wheat self-sufficiency in Pakistan
23.02.21Wheat is not just an essential part of the Pakistani diet, but also absolutely critical…
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First complete cytological characterization of the 2NvS translocation
23.02.21As scientists study and learn more about the complicated genetic makeup of the wheat genome,…
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PlantVillage NuruAI app among key innovations supporting poor farmers to cope with climate change
23.02.21In his newly launched book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and…
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How to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agriculture
23.02.21-
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Environmental health
BY VALERIA PIÑEIRO, JOAQUÍN ARIAS AND HONOR DEARLOVE As populations grow and the climate crisis…
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Q&A: A decade of improved and climate-smart maize through collaborative research and innovation
23.02.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The food security and livelihoods of smallholder farming families in sub-Saharan Africa depend on ma…
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New study investigates the governance structure of the Nairobi pork value chain and its impact on food safety
23.02.21-
Health
A new study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science (February 2021) has documented the governan…
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On foresight and trade-off analysis for agriculture and food systems
22.02.21-
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Environmental health
Thinking about the future and weighing alternative options are, of course, nothing new. What is…
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The CGIAR GHUs: Making plants and the world safer through phytosanitary interventions
22.02.21Pandemic! That word strikes at the heart of global sensitivities right now. But while most…
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New book explores gender dynamics in aquatic food systems
22.02.21-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The significance of aquatic foods for human nutrition, health, and livelihoods is increasingly recog…
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Children’s TV series promotes gender equality and fish-based nutrition in Bangladesh
22.02.21-
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A new children’s TV series promoting fish-based nutrition, gender equality, and women’s involvem…
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FAO declaration supports sustainable aquatic food systems
22.02.21-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over 190 countries made a formal commitment to sustainable and inclusive aquatic food systems at…
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Inland fisheries critical for nourishing young children in sub-Saharan Africa, study reveals
22.02.21-
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Inland fisheries are critical to supplying children with the nutritious, diverse diets required for …
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An agri-food system innovation in Kenya? Will smallholders be the winners?
22.02.21Major food policy changes are underway in Kenya that could mean that sorghum and millets…
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Well-designed strategy drives pearl millet mainstreaming nutrition initiative
22.02.21A well-designed strategy currently being implemented to develop pearl millet lines that are both hig…
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How crop innovation is addressing the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
21.02.21In a just-published op-ed, Martin Kropff, Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvemen…
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