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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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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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Environmental health
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Food security
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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A manifesto on Forgotten Foods for Asia-Pacific with farmers in focus
10.06.21Farmer collectives, research, policy and advocacy institutions in Central Asia and Asia-Pacific regi…
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Millets prove tasty solution to climate and food security challenges
10.06.21A renewed focus on boosting the production of millets and highlighting their benefits, is critical…
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Burkina Faso releases its first pearl millet hybrid
10.06.21High-yieldng, downy mildew-resistant and suitable for food and fodder. Developed by ICRISATand evalu…
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Gender-integrated business strategies empower women in Zambia
10.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Zambia, rural women play a vital role in aquaculture and related value chains, but…
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Opinion: Getting the most out of every last drop of water
10.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Water is often held up as a precious, life-giving element for its essential role in…
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Techniques to enhance the genetic gain in crop breeding programs
10.06.21Dr. Michael Baum, ICARDA’s Acting Deputy Director General for Research, Research Team Leader of Br…
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Changing rainfall erodes a landscape. Watershed interventions halt the downward spiral
10.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Watershed interventions have led to 1-2.5 meters higher groundwater levels, providing lifesaving irr…
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Winning, ‘climate-smart’, ways to feed India’s dairy cows—Jimmy Smith, of ILRI
09.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, research and communications officer with ILRI in Sou…
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2021 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Food systems transformation from diets to policies
09.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY QIYUN HUANG As the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the past year,…
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African breeding programs leap forward by accessing new genotyping data
09.06.21-
Big data
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Food security
With newly accessible genotyping technologies, African crop breeding programs have partnered with Ei…
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Never let good waste become a crisis: lessons for the Global South
09.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
As a global society, we waste a third – 1.3 billion metric tons – of…
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New report from UN Nutrition untangles risks and benefits of food from livestock for sustainable healthy diets, focusing on challenges linked to both abundance and scarcity
08.06.21-
Health
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Nutrition
A more balanced, sustainable approach to consuming food from livestock—one that meets nutrition ne…
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ILRI's Jimmy Smith on the livestock controversies holding back greater use of milk, meat and eggs to nourish the undernourished
08.06.21Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), today gave …
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Remote sensing for irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: Promises and pitfalls
08.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
There is growing demand for sustainable development policy that is data driven, but our unprecedente…
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Digital innovations accelerated by COVID-19 are revolutionizing food systems: Implications for the UN Food Systems Summit
08.06.21-
Food security
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN, ROB VOS AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The COVID-19 pandemic has caused…
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The Yams of Konguan
08.06.21-
Biodiversity
Once upon a time two women, one very beautiful and one not so beautiful, were…
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World Food Prize Laureate Shakuntala Thilsted urges UN Assembly to act on aquatic foods
08.06.21-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, who was recently …
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In the Spotlight: Tasnuva Zaman
08.06.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in…
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