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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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10 new chickpea varieties released in 2020 in collaboration with NARS
24.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Market-driven chickpea innovations record many firsts in Africa and Asia. To meet the growing global…
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Announcing CIMMYT-derived fall armyworm tolerant elite maize hybrids for eastern and southern Africa
23.12.20-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is pleased to announce the successful …
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PIM News: November-December 2020
22.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dear colleagues and friends, Welcome to the final issue of PIM News in 2020! As…
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Policy seminar: Promoting recovery and resilience for Latin America’s agrifood industry
22.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY ADRIANA CAMPOS, JONATHAN HEPBURN AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO The COVID-19 pandemic has presented serious…
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Reflection on the CRP 2020 Review: A Time to Harmonize Data and Definitions
22.12.20As we finalize the last cohort of the CGIAR Research Program 2020 Reviews, CAS reflects…
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Market Sheds in Ethiopian Livestock Markets boost Farmers’ Participation and Income
22.12.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new study conducted in the central Ethiopian highlands reveals that introducing animal sheds in…
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Coming Full Circle with Maize
22.12.20-
Biodiversity
From studying wild cucurbits in Spain to judging the “Largest Maize Ear in the World”…
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Delivering improved maize seed against all odds
21.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As one of the pioneer homegrown seed companies in Uganda, Farm Inputs Care Centre (FICA)…
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Transformative engagements – a new way to discuss gender relations in agriculture
21.12.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
For years now, gender equality has been a central objective in international development agendas. Th…
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From ruptures to fault lines: tracing the global impact of COVID-19 on migrants and rural development
21.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Migrants are the quintessential global citizens, leaving their places of birth and moving across bor…
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A no-meat diet everywhere will not solve the climate crisis
21.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
People in industrialized regions like the United States of America or Europe are generally urged…
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Irrigating fodder crops to improve nutrition for animals and people in Ethiopia
20.12.20-
Food security
When livestock are fed high-quality fodder, produced with the help of irrigation, they deliver bette…
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AfricaRice and Liberia solidify ties to build resilient rice-based food systems
18.12.20-
Nutrition
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 18 December 2020. The partnership between the Africa Rice Center (AfricaR…
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Does response fatigue bias our understanding of rural livelihoods against women and youth?
18.12.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY KATE AMBLER, SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ AND MYWISH MAREDIA A recent policy focus on work opportunities…
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Genomics-assisted breeding delivers high-yielding, wilt resistant chickpea for commercial cultivation in central India
18.12.20-
Nutrition
A high-yielding and wilt resistant variety with a yield potential double to that of existing…
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Upskilling climate change experts in Mali: Training begins with live project synopsis
18.12.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A training program initiated by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is upskilli…
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Scientists reveal the hybrid origin of the white Guinea yam
18.12.20An international team of scientists has revealed the origin of the most popular food staple…
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Breaking Ground: Gokul Paudel finds the best on-farm practices for South Asia
18.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Gokul Paudel is an agricultural economist working to streamline farming practices in South Asia. He…
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