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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
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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-
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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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Global Food Policy Report 2021: The challenges of food system transformation
07.05.21-
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BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Repor…
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Community participation: greening the Aba Gerima watershed in Ethiopia
05.05.21-
Biodiversity
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The rolling plains of the Aba Gerima watershed cover the upper portion of Lake Tana…
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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali
04.05.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA How can women’s voices be amplified in a situation…
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Digitization equipment set to accelerate Kenya’s breeding programs
04.05.21Last month, the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) platform handed over digitization equipment to th…
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Supporting the Food System Dialogues for Honduras ahead of UN summit
04.05.21-
Food security
We have never had a better understanding of the need to transform food systems. The…
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Future Thinking for Present Decisions: On the Importance of Foresight and Trade-Off Analyses in Agricultural Research Portfolio and Investment Plans
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The Global Food Systems 5050 Initiative: Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality amid food systems transformation
03.05.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Women play critical roles in food systems—as producers, processors, traders, cons…
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Smallscale composting can help put the brakes on youth immigration in Niger
03.05.21A small group of youth from Niger learned a fast-paced composting technique. Their learnings are…
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Why youth here aspire to be farmers, the case of Burkina Faso
03.05.21Jobs that are intellectually satisfying, economically rewarding and low on drudgery are the biggest …
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Co-creating a Theory of Change for the Genebank Initiative
03.05.21-
Biodiversity
A new online process that enabled the Initiative Design Team (IDT) with a large group…
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ILRI and partners call for greater investment in global animal health in the fight against pandemics
01.05.21-
Health
To mark World Veterinary Day 2021, the International Livestock Research Institute joined a number of…
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CIMMYT and John Innes Centre announce strategic collaboration on wheat research
29.04.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the John Innes Centre (JIC) have…
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El Niño can help predict cacao harvests up to 2 years in advance
29.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Long-term weather data is absent in many places, complicating rain predictions for crops. Researcher…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
29.04.21-
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Biodiversity
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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Can child wasting be prevented in times of crisis? Evidence from Burundi
28.04.21-
Health
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Nutrition
This post is the sixth in a series on a research project in Guatemala and Burundi…
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Survey: A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic
27.04.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, NAHIAN BIN KHALED, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND HONOR DEARLOVE Ban…
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NAQS honors IITA with “Service Support Award” for phytosanitary capacity development
27.04.21A long-time collaborator and partner, the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services (NAQS), honored …
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Study: Examining wealth and residential inequalities in India’s double burden of malnutrition
26.04.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
The double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of underweight and micronutrient deficiencies wi…
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