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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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Protecting Inle Lake for the long-term well-being of the local fisherfolk
27.07.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Inle Lake is located on the Shan Plateau in the Southern Shan State of Myanmar.…
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Securing a legacy for the IFAD Conservation Agriculture and Crop Livestock Project
27.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The Conservation Agriculture and Crop-livestock (CLCA) project was made possible through the financi…
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The impact of the International Rice Genebank on rice farming in Bangladesh
22.07.22-
Biodiversity
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The findings of this study demonstrate the valuable contribution of IRG’s conservation and distrib…
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Ecological farming a boon for staple crop farmers in Africa, new study finds
20.07.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Elufe Chipande, a farmer at Songani in Zomba District, Malawi, is intercropping maize (background) a…
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Establishing inclusive resource management models in the Pacific
14.07.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
July 28 marks the 2022 instance of Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demand…
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CGIAR and national partners move toward stronger crop breeding partnerships to benefit Sub-Saharan African farmers
11.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa’s agricultural research institutes are on a clearer path to developing and delivering more …
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Researchers plan transformation of agrifood systems in South Asia
08.07.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Representatives from CIMMYT and ICAR begin planning research for the Transforming Agrifood Systems i…
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CGIAR Plant Health Initiative formally launched on the International Day of Plant Health
30.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
National, regional, and international partners at the CGIAR Plant Health and Rapid Response to Prote…
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Getting to win-win: Can people and nature flourish on an increasingly cultivated planet?
15.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Our planet is facing a massive biodiversity crisis. Deeply entwined with our concurrent climate cris…
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Protecting and restoring our oceans for future generations
07.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface. It is central to the production…
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Reviewing the impacts of microplastics on aquatic food safety in Bangladesh
07.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Dried fish is a staple of food in Bangladesh. In the coastal South Asian nation,…
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Diagram links physiological traits of wheat for yield potential
25.05.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
A generalized wiring diagram for wheat, as proposed by the authors. The diagram depicts the…
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How ladybugs and disease-killing microbes can help reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint
17.05.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
By Kris A.G. Wyckhuys Given that agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, measuring…
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Protecting plant health for food and nutritional security
12.05.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Robust and resilient agrifood systems begin with healthy crops. Without healthy crops the food secur…
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Just launched: CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
05.05.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
A new Research Initiative from CGIAR, which aims to re-imagine and co-create nature-positive food sy…
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Appropriate technology, revisited
29.04.22-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
For decades, farmers in the American corn belt have been battling a persistent and elusive…
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Svalbard ‘doomsday’ vault receives additional ICARDA seed samples
17.04.22-
Biodiversity
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In an effort to further safeguard critically important biodiversity to strengthen the climate resili…
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Innovating with Roots, Tubers and Bananas
11.04.22-
Biodiversity
We are delighted to announce the publication of the book “Root, Tuber and Banana Food…
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