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Over USD 142 million pledged at COP30 to advance CGIAR’s mission of a food-secure future
15.11.25COP30 Delegates at the Embrapa/Gates Foundation Innovation Showcase The United Kingdom, Belgium, Den…
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Brazil's Cop30 summit has high hopes for the planet - but will it signal a green future?
12.11.25CGIAR Executive Managing Director Ismahane Elouafi explains in an article in The National ahead of…
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New CGIAR Evidence Sets Out Blueprint for a Low-Carbon, Regenerative and Equitable Food System Transition at COP30
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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As countries prepare to gather in Belém for COP30, CGIAR today launched seven new evidence-based…
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Join Ismahane Elouafi at the CNN Global Perspectives - Soil to Scale event
05.11.25Join Ismahane Elouafi discussing pathways to resileint food systems in Africa at the CNN Soil…
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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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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Georgia Seed Model Farm Opens
26.04.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dignitaries, researchers, and private sector representatives gathered this week in southwestern Geor…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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The golden eggs that keep on giving
25.04.21-
Food security
Ask any child who is well versed in Aesop’s fables and you will learn that…
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Biofortified sweetpotato improving lives of smallholder farmers in Malawi
23.04.21Historically, most of Malawi’s food has been produced by small-scale farmers operating on less tha…
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A good pearl millet hybrid gets even better
23.04.21-
Food security
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Health
A team of researchers in India has bettered an immensely popular pearl millet hybrid, HHB…
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