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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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Genebanks - Leveraging Crop Diversity to Make Food Systems More Resilient and Nutritious
16.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Marcela Santaella’s highest priority is making sure that storage conditions are perfect at all tim…
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CGIAR Congratulates Ismahane Elouafi on her Appointment as Chief Scientist at FAO
16.11.20CGIAR announced today that Ismahane Elouafi has stepped down from the CGIAR System Board with…
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Saving water and time
13.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
“I wonder why I never considered using drip irrigation for all these years,” says Michael…
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Rice-fish systems - back to the future
13.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Landownership and the gender gap in agricultural decision-making in northern Ghana
12.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Agricultural landownership is a source of income, bargaining …
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Farmers in Mali endorse climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties
12.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Farmers in Mali, who volunteered to grow climate-resilient and locally adapted varieties of sorghum,…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units organize Phytosanitary Awareness Week
11.11.20As part of measures to address the inadvertent spread of pests experienced with germplasm distributi…
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Measuring the true cost of food
11.11.20-
Food security
BY DAVID LABORDE, MARIE PARENT AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO Second in a series of seven posts…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
11.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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Investing in nutrition through early childhood development in Malawi: Assessing costs and benefits
10.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY AULO GELLI, AMY MARGOLIES, CHRISTOPHER KEMP, CAROL LEVIN AND NATASHA LEDLIE A world free…
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Banana hybrids can more than double the yield of best parents
10.11.20Hybrid crops are expected to have higher edible yields than their parents, but by how…
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Reaching 100,000 Pakistani Farmers Remotely Through a Unique Partnership
09.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
HarvestPlus is joining forces with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in a new partnershi…
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Policy seminar: AATM report examines challenges to African agricultural trade
09.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts trade flows and relationships worldwide, Afri…
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New Ethiopia Study: Reach of the CGIAR System Much Larger Than That of Individual Innovations
09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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Back to the future with rice-fish agroecosystems
09.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Important research on how integrated rice-fish production can improve food security and climate resi…
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IITA paper on genome editing among most read Open Access journal
07.11.20A paper by an IITA Principal Scientist, Leena Tripathi, on ‘CRISPR/Cas9 editing of endogenous b…
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Stakeholders meet virtually to discuss shared plans for One Health Challenge
07.11.20The CGIAR Two Degree Initiative for Food and Agriculture recently organized an online stakeholder co…
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Farmers flock towards nutritious, orange maize
06.11.20-
Nutrition
At seed fair in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe, farmers browse numerous displays of maize, sorghum, mil…
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