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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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CGIAR breeding brings major returns on investment, finds study
26.01.21-
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
26.01.21-
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
26.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at…
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Food security
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Gender research rightfully takes center stage in new One CGIAR strategy
26.01.21-
Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 2021—Gender equality is rightfully elevated to a top priority in a…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Q&A with Kwame Ogero: Innovation at the Last Mile, reaching farmers with quality seed
25.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Kwame Ogero is a seed systems specialist working for the Sweetpotato Genetic Advancement and Innovat…
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Q&A with Maria Andrade: Breeding nutritious sweetpotatoes that farmers and families love
25.01.21-
Nutrition
Orange-fleshed sweetpotato breeder and World Food Prize winner Dr. Maria Isabel Andrade loves sweetp…
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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
25.01.21The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
25.01.21A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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How young Kenyans feel about farming goes against conventional wisdom
25.01.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Every year, 12 million young people enter the labour market across the African continent. Economists…
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Who will empty India’s 100 million new toilets?
25.01.21-
Environmental health
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Health
Improved sanitation is booming, but when the majority of new toilets connect to pits and…
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The downward trend: Nature’s decline risks our quality of life
25.01.21-
Biodiversity
Scientists conducted a sweeping review of nature’s contributions to humans in order to present a…
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How one Brazilian state is tackling deforestation within its borders
25.01.21Deforestation in Brazil has been soaring the last few years. And its Amazonian state of…
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Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty
23.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Tackling climate change requires large-scale financial investments into adaptation and mitigation ac…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Illegal forest-zone oil palm in Indonesia
22.01.21-
Environmental health
Researchers have identified oil palms growing where they shouldn’t be. Discussions are underway ab…
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