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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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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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CGIAR Plant Health Initiative formally launched on the International Day of Plant Health
30.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
National, regional, and international partners at the CGIAR Plant Health and Rapid Response to Prote…
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Getting to win-win: Can people and nature flourish on an increasingly cultivated planet?
15.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Our planet is facing a massive biodiversity crisis. Deeply entwined with our concurrent climate cris…
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Protecting and restoring our oceans for future generations
07.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface. It is central to the production…
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Reviewing the impacts of microplastics on aquatic food safety in Bangladesh
07.06.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Dried fish is a staple of food in Bangladesh. In the coastal South Asian nation,…
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Diagram links physiological traits of wheat for yield potential
25.05.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
A generalized wiring diagram for wheat, as proposed by the authors. The diagram depicts the…
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How ladybugs and disease-killing microbes can help reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint
17.05.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
By Kris A.G. Wyckhuys Given that agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, measuring…
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Protecting plant health for food and nutritional security
12.05.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Robust and resilient agrifood systems begin with healthy crops. Without healthy crops the food secur…
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Just launched: CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions
05.05.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
A new Research Initiative from CGIAR, which aims to re-imagine and co-create nature-positive food sy…
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Appropriate technology, revisited
29.04.22-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
For decades, farmers in the American corn belt have been battling a persistent and elusive…
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Svalbard ‘doomsday’ vault receives additional ICARDA seed samples
17.04.22-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In an effort to further safeguard critically important biodiversity to strengthen the climate resili…
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Innovating with Roots, Tubers and Bananas
11.04.22-
Biodiversity
We are delighted to announce the publication of the book “Root, Tuber and Banana Food…
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A Green Light for Desert Farming Collaboration
04.04.22-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At a High Level KIADPAI/CGIAR side-event during the 7th International Date Palm Conference in Abu…
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The Future Seeds LEED Certification
04.04.22-
Biodiversity
Future Seeds is the first ever genebank building in the world built with the goal…
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WorldFish pilots last-mile feed business models to boost aquaculture in Zambia
31.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder fish farmers in Zambia face a myriad of challenges, but one of their biggest…
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Protecting Scarce Dryland Water
22.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
ICARDA is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Fores…
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Deadlock over UN treaty for high seas keeps developing countries at a disadvantage
19.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
The livelihoods of millions worldwide continue to be at risk after UN Member States failed…
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Ground-breaking new genebank unveiled in Colombia to help climate proof food systems across the tropics
15.03.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The world’s largest genetic library for beans, cassava and tropical forages has been officially op…
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Farmers Can Get Ahead of Locust Swarms
09.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is grateful to the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and JDC-GRID for…
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