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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 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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Better beans for Africa
08.03.21Insufficient iron in diets is a leading cause of anemia, a condition that particularly affects…
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Legumes: a climate-smart option to address Africa’s dependence on costly food imports
08.03.21According to the United Nations, the Covid-19 pandemic has the potential to double (to an…
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New study fills critical gap in understanding pandemic impact on food value chains and offers solutions
08.03.21In a new paper in the journal Sustainability, ICRISAT researchers analyzed the double burden of t…
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Revival of groundnut production continues to change lives of smallholder farmers in Northern Nigeria
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In a remarkable turnaround, farmers in Northern Nigeria organized themselves into innovation platfor…
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Far-reaching impact of technology and innovation: Saving time, boosting income and reducing household conflict in Zimbabwe and beyond
05.03.21-
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Simple agricultural innovations, such as soil probes to detect water and salinity levels at differen…
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African women join forces to overcome COVID-19 challenges in aquatic food systems
05.03.21-
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Across Africa, women working in aquatic food value chains are banding together to support their…
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In her words: one woman fighting COVID-19 in Nairobi
05.03.21-
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This International Women’s Day, we spoke with Elizabeth Nduta Njeri, a community health volunteer …
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Gathering Pieces of the Adoption Puzzle: Induction Meeting for the Small Grants Program
04.03.21Moved by the need to create an active community of research around agricultural innovations, SPIA…
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Model: Impact of falling remittances amid COVID-19 on Yemen’s war-torn economy
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BY DALIA ELSABBAGH, SIKANDRA KURDI AND MANFRED WIEBELT The day-to-day hardships of the COVID-19 pand…
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Savings groups support women’s financial independence during COVID-19 in Bangladesh
04.03.21-
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Already suffering from climate disasters and persistent floods, Bangladesh’s coastal communities w…
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Gender assumptions harm progress on climate adaption and resilience, new study finds
04.03.21-
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Outdated assumptions around gender continue to hinder effective and fair policymaking and action f…
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FTA 2020 Science Conference: Forests, trees and agroforestry science for transformational change
04.03.21FTA, the largest research programme for development program of forests, trees and agroforestry ran a…
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FTA’s 11 game-changing solutions for UNFSS
04.03.21A contribution from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) and its…
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Finding effective ways to ensure sustainable supplies of forest-risk commodities
04.03.21Cross-sectoral jurisdictional approaches offer promise The increased consumption and production …
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International Day of Women & Girls in Science 2021 – Beyond the Borders: Equality in Science for Society
04.03.21This year’s international day of women and girls in science (11 February 2021) focuses on…
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Petén’s community forest concessions: A pillar of forest conservation and livelihoods development in Guatemala
04.03.21FTA-PIM research documents show strong benefits of community forest concessions A quarter-century-lo…
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Forests and agroforestry taking its place for climate adaptation
04.03.21New FAO-FTA supplementary guidelines on NAPs The potential of forests and trees to mitigate global…
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The One Health research-for-development agenda: Enhancing the holistic health of people, animals and environment
03.03.21-
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Nephew of a dairy entrepreneur near Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). JIMMY SMITH,…
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