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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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Landownership and the gender gap in agricultural decision-making in northern Ghana
12.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Agricultural landownership is a source of income, bargaining …
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Farmers in Mali endorse climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties
12.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Farmers in Mali, who volunteered to grow climate-resilient and locally adapted varieties of sorghum,…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units organize Phytosanitary Awareness Week
11.11.20As part of measures to address the inadvertent spread of pests experienced with germplasm distributi…
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Measuring the true cost of food
11.11.20-
Food security
BY DAVID LABORDE, MARIE PARENT AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO Second in a series of seven posts…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
11.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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Investing in nutrition through early childhood development in Malawi: Assessing costs and benefits
10.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY AULO GELLI, AMY MARGOLIES, CHRISTOPHER KEMP, CAROL LEVIN AND NATASHA LEDLIE A world free…
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Banana hybrids can more than double the yield of best parents
10.11.20Hybrid crops are expected to have higher edible yields than their parents, but by how…
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Reaching 100,000 Pakistani Farmers Remotely Through a Unique Partnership
09.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
HarvestPlus is joining forces with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in a new partnershi…
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Policy seminar: AATM report examines challenges to African agricultural trade
09.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts trade flows and relationships worldwide, Afri…
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New Ethiopia Study: Reach of the CGIAR System Much Larger Than That of Individual Innovations
09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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Back to the future with rice-fish agroecosystems
09.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Important research on how integrated rice-fish production can improve food security and climate resi…
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IITA paper on genome editing among most read Open Access journal
07.11.20A paper by an IITA Principal Scientist, Leena Tripathi, on ‘CRISPR/Cas9 editing of endogenous b…
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Stakeholders meet virtually to discuss shared plans for One Health Challenge
07.11.20The CGIAR Two Degree Initiative for Food and Agriculture recently organized an online stakeholder co…
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Farmers flock towards nutritious, orange maize
06.11.20-
Nutrition
At seed fair in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe, farmers browse numerous displays of maize, sorghum, mil…
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ICRISAT: innovation broker working with private sector An interview with Ram Dhulipala
06.11.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT’s iHub platform was recently highlighted in the Food & Business Knowledge Platform for…
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Environment Minister launches women-owned food processing unit in Telangana
06.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mr Allola Indrakaran Reddy, Minister for Endowment, Law, Forest and Environment, Telangana, recently…
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A catastrophe avoided
05.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. So goes the old…
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Making digitalization work for African agriculture: The role of the enabling environment
05.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY BENJAMIN K. ADDOM AND HEIKE BAUMÜLLER Fourth in a series of blog posts on…
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