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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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New common bean varieties to benefit African women and children
17.05.21Good progress has been made in the first 12 months of an innovative project linking…
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Gender and Nutrition considerations in Demand Led Breeding: Experiences from Rwanda
17.05.21Participatory plant breeding is not new in Rwanda. Its history can be traced between 1988…
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How small-scale farmers jumped commercialisation hurdles in Ethiopia
17.05.21Chickpea farmers have adopted new varieties to achieve commercialisation, say scientists The use of …
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Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
14.05.21-
Food security
BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…
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Digital Technologies Keep Farmers Productive During COVID 19
14.05.21-
Big data
The COVID 19 pandemic has made more clear than ever the need for and role…
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Water and cross-sectoral collaboration are key to food system transformations
14.05.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
At a series of dialogues convened as part of the UNFSS preparatory process, experts argued…
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Putting One Health into practice: A call to action for animal health
14.05.21-
Health
Action for Animal Health is a new coalition that aims to secure greater support for…
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Survey: Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families
13.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, MANUEL HERNANDEZ AND CYNTHIA PAZ Global patterns and local variations of COVI…
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Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks
12.05.21-
Gender equality
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Health
BY JAWOO KOO, CLAUDIA RINGLER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSH AND CARLO AZZARRI India’s devastating second wave o…
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Scientists in Africa explore use of surrogate sires to improve small ruminant breeds
11.05.21-
Food security
In Pullman, Washington, the director and reproductive biologist at the Center for Reproductive Biolo…
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Policy responses to COVID-19: What worked and how to build resilience for the future
11.05.21-
Food security
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT, DANIELLE RESNICK, NICHOLA NAYLOR AND JESSICA WALLACH The COVID-19 pandemic has pr…
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IITA holds Climate Smart Agriculture awareness session for local-level policymakers
11.05.21As part of efforts to ensure sustainability and scalability of efforts to build capacity in…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Farmers’ Hubs for quality seed and input supply and market linkage launched in Nigeria
11.05.21The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) launched 13 Farmers’ Hubs to service 13…
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Public and private sector scientists pick pearl millet material for their breeding programs
11.05.21Public and private sector scientists visited 20,000 pearl millet breeding plots at ICRISAT this week…
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Lessons Learned from the CGIAR Research Programs and What’s Coming Up Next
10.05.21More than ever before, remote evaluations and evaluation approaches that require a rapid and cost-ef…
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Vietnam’s MARD minister calls on promotion of climate-smart practices to reduce GHG emissions at COP26’s Ministerial Dialogue
10.05.2126 April 2021 - Mr. Le Minh Hoan, Leader of Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and…
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Solar for all: Enhancing access to affordable and sustainable solar-powered irrigation
08.05.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Around 2 billion people globally are food insecure. Yet strategies to reduce chronic hunger and…
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