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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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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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2020 ReSAKSS Conference: Learning from past policy mistakes and achievements to transform African agrifood systems
25.11.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY TSITSI MAKOMBE Last in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2020…
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Progress and opportunities for CIMMYT spring wheat breeding
25.11.20Wheat scientists in the Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat for Improved Livelihoods (AGG)…
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Gross Margin Analysis – A tool for better farm management
25.11.20Photo: A training session for farmers in Niger (ICRISAT) In order to guide farmers in…
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“CIMMYT is at my heart”
24.11.20After a 37-year career, Hans-Joachim Braun is retiring from the International Maize and Wheat Improv…
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Here's how to embed continuous improvement in your work
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Food security
Crop breeding programs are setting an example for how to examine and improve their work – while…
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Why the G20 needs to focus on energizing food systems in Africa
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND WILLIAM BRENT Third in a series of posts on briefs by…
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40,000 young people in Nigeria to benefit from Young Africa Works-IITA project training program
23.11.20Lagos, Nigeria, November 23, 2020 – In May this year, the International Institute of Tropical…
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Study reveals potato’s potential for reducing anemia
23.11.20The potato is known to be a good source of energy, potassium and vitamins C…
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Policy seminar: The political economy of COVID-19 and impacts on food policies around the world
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a major shock to global health and…
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Charting the Path to Peace: Who Bears the Burden of Climate Variability in Indonesia?
23.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Written by Grazia Pacillo. Image credit: IRRI CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security explores the role of…
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Charting the Path to Peace: Who Bears the Burden of Climate Variability in Vietnam?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Written by Grazia Pacillo. Image credit: G. Smith (CIAT). CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security explores the…
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More abundant tree species unlikely to return after droughts
21.11.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers around the world have found an alarming lack of natural replacement of dominant tree…
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Tanzania Agriculture PS acknowledges and lauds IITA research work
21.11.20The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania, has recognized the importance of r…
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The cost of improving nutritional outcomes through food aid programs: Is more and longer better?
20.11.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY JEF L. LEROY, JESSICA HECKERT, DEANNA K. OLNEY, SUSAN RICHTER, ELYSE IRUHIRIYE, MARIE T.…
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Gross Margin Analysis – A tool for better farm management
20.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
A training session for farmers in Niger. In order to guide farmers in Niger to…
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An instant seed market
20.11.20-
Food security
How do you create the largest market for stress-tolerant seed away from a major business…
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Biofortified crops have a key role to play in COVID-19 response
19.11.20COVID-19 has presented many challenges to agriculture this year, but those challenges are also provi…
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Taking stock of the national toolbox
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Environmental health
The Government of Ethiopia has consistently prioritized agriculture and sees it as a core component…
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