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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
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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 SystemsÂ
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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FAO sets the record straight–86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans
28.01.19-
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Cow Jar, by Jean Dubuffet, 1943. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet’…
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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line
27.01.19-
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Artworks by Austrian artist August Walla. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health dietâ…
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IFPRI’s Shenggen Fan on the ‘differentiated approach’ needed to navigate today’s food systems
26.01.19-
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Illustrations by (left to right): Hiroko Yoshimoto, Ranganath Krishnamani, Yusuke Yonezu III. The …
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With huge variations in meat consumption, we’re ‘all in this existential crisis together’—Vox
25.01.19-
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‘Eating more plant-based burgers could help us avoid environmental catastrophe, according to a new…
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Extended partnership to deliver high-yielding, disease-resistant finger millet to farmers
23.01.19-
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Farmers can soon access finger millet varieties that not only withstand drought but are also…
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Should we eat red meat? Depends on who’s eating—New York Times
22.01.19-
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Left to right: Figure of an under-nourished individual (by The Twin Project), illustration of red…
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Africa and Asia come together to lead a global initiative to diversify staples
18.01.19-
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Leading agriculture organizations from Africa and Asia have joined hands to take on a bold…
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Can governments promote homestead gardening at scale? The case of Ethiopia
17.01.19-
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Eating fruits and vegetables can help ensure adequate nutrition and reduce the risk of heart…
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PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
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Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
04.01.19-
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If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Tackling the double burden of malnutrition: Time to innovate!
02.01.19-
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A flagship program of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health is…
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Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
28.12.18-
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Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
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Three new UN resolutions focus on plant health, pulses and food safety
28.12.18-
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The United Nations General Assembly has declared two new ‘International Days’ and one ‘Year’…
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Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes
24.12.18-
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Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and…
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Four key steps to a sustainable food future
20.12.18-
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The world’s population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, with rising numbers of people …
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Accelerating progress to end hunger and malnutrition through implementation science
12.12.18-
Nutrition
The recent IFPRI-FAO conference, Accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition, held in Thailand …
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Integrating Value Chain research across CGIAR
10.12.18-
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In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
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Toolkit Launch: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition
10.12.18-
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Nutrition
The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative shares a new open-access guide that collects less…
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