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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-
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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Policy seminar: Prospects for the African Continental Free Trade Area
05.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF On Jan. 1, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) formally took…
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Solving South Asia’s sustainability issues will require a systems approach to crop management
04.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research by an international team of scientists, including scientists from the International Mai…
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Policy seminar: The hidden world of informal African trade
04.01.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF Millions of people in Africa rely on informal trade for their livelihoods.…
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IRRI Announces New Leadership at IRRI SARC
04.01.21The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) announced last week the appointment of Dr. Sudhansh…
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Agriculture remains preferred occupation in rural Nigeria despite pandemic-related challenges
31.12.20-
Food security
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Health
A survey in rural parts of Northern Nigeria shows that in spite of problems in…
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Agricultural mitigation can increase social equity, but only for some
30.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Not everyone wins when labor requirements are reduced. Introducing technologies often increases th…
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Experts call for global One Health platform to consolidate evidence on actions to tackle antimicrobial resistance
30.12.20-
Health
The World Health Organization has declared that antimicrobial resistance is one of the top 10…
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Policy seminar: Expanding policy research to strengthen Eurasia’s food systems
29.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Along with other regions of the world, Eurasia has been hit hard…
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How can low-emissions development ensure social equity during intensification?
29.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Low-emissions development initiatives must understand gender dynamics to develop technical intervent…
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Encouraging entrepreneurship with mobile grinders and seed cleaning machines
29.12.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICARDA and its national partners in Tunisia are promoting entrepreneurship and rural businesses thro…
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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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