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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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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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10 Lessons from WHEAT in 2020
16.12.20-
Nutrition
The past year has been full of challenges but also full of insights. We invite…
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New guidelines ease the way for fish-friendly irrigation systems
16.12.20-
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A new set of guidelines provides practical guidance on the integration of irrigation systems with…
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Mobile app connects fish farmers with aquaculture information despite COVID-19 in Myanmar
16.12.20-
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A new mobile application is delivering crucial aquaculture information to small-scale fish farmers w…
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“Historic” release of six improved wheat varieties in Nepal
15.12.20-
Food security
On December 11, 2020, the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the release of six…
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Shining a brighter light on adoption and diffusion
15.12.20-
Food security
With almost all CGIAR centers represented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is considered to be a…
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Undervalued and underutilized – cocoyam is ripe for development
15.12.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Many readers may never have heard of cocoyam. That’s hardly surprising as this is…
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Novel and effective technique to control Banana Xanthomonas wilt is suitable for Rwandan agroecology
15.12.20Banana is a major commodity in Rwanda, used as both a cash and (staple) food…
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Agriculture for Peace: A call to action to avert a global food crisis
14.12.20-
Food security
50 years ago, the late Norman Borlaug received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for averting…
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Best of 2020: Editors’ picks
14.12.20COVID-19 didn’t slow us down! In 2020, our editors continued to cover exciting news and…
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New book on value chain development seeks to translate ideas into practice – for impact at scale
12.12.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Interview with the editors of the new book “Value Chain Development and The Poor: Promise, delive…
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Press Release: “Historic” release of six improved wheat varieties in Nepal
11.12.20-
Food security
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Kathmandu (Nepal) December 11, 2020 The Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the rel…
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Policy seminar: Information and collaboration both key to preventing food crises
11.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SARA GUSTAFSON From the COVID-19 pandemic to persistent conflict to desert locust outbreaks, popu…
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Sorghum and millet grow money for the Mariko family
11.12.20-
Food security
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Health
Use of improved seed triples yields, credit through warrantage system leads to big gains. Access…
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What Africa can learn from Asia about agricultural mechanization
10.12.20The new book includes thirteen case studies from Asia and Africa documenting the differences in…
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The Market Services That Ethiopian Livestock Farmers are Willing to Pay for
10.12.20A recently published ICARDA study investigating rural farmers' willingness to pay for carefully iden…
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Is it crunch time for the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus? 3 recommendations to move the needle
10.12.20-
Environmental health
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The concept of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus has gained widespread traction in the last decade…
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“Happy Seeder” saves farmers money over burning straw, new study in India shows
10.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Compared to conventional tillage practices, sowing wheat directly into just-harvested rice fields wi…
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“Let there be food to eat”
09.12.20-
Food security
“We want to feed the people, we don’t want them to go hungry. We have…
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