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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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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
05.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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Beyond trees: Land restoration to enhance gender equality in Burkina Faso
05.03.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Not all farmers are able to adopt or benefit from landscape restoration practices equally. A…
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Growing mounds of waste offer African women unexpected business opportunities in the bioenergy sector
04.03.19-
Gender equality
This op-ed first appeared on the Green Growth Knowledge Platform. New technologies and smart busines…
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New publications: Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia
27.02.19-
Gender equality
Despite formal decentralization, agricultural services in Ethiopia are generally “top-down,” cla…
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The missing seed market: Promoting improved seeds for women farmers
27.02.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
In Ethiopia, a World Bank study found that female farm managers produce 23 percent less yield per…
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Celebrating women in science
08.02.19-
Gender equality
Join us in celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! On this…
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Misuse of the term ‘empowerment’ in daily conversations
28.01.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a world where ‘gender integration’ or ‘gender mainstreaming’ is prioritised and practic…
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Gaining a voice: First Women Fishers’ Forum held in Timor-Leste
23.01.19-
Gender equality
In the remote fishing village of Adara, on Atauro Island in Timor-Leste, men have typically…
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Barking up the same trees: Water and forests 'cannot be separated' in East Africa's Rift Valley
18.01.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Africa - The forested mountains of East Africa deserve their ‘water towers’ moniker. Their sprin…
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Making small-scale irrigation work for women
15.01.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
As climate change makes rainfed agriculture an increasingly precarious venture, small-scale irrigati…
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PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
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Weather, climate and gender: Promoting gender equality in rural climate services
27.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Climate change brings with it erratic and shifting weather patterns. The first five months of…
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Challenging gender norms around trees and land restoration in West Africa: can research be transformative?
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Trees are important sources of income for many women in the drylands of West Africa,…
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The right tools for the job: enabling breeding programs to be gender-responsive
12.12.18-
Gender equality
Over the past few decades, gender initiatives across CGIAR have created broad awareness among scient…
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Integrating Value Chain research across CGIAR
10.12.18-
Big data
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
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The role of gender equality in accelerating progress on SDG2
10.12.18-
Gender equality
There is a growing body of evidence that documents the linkages between SDG5 on gender…
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“You will be afraid of doing anything on your own”: Agricultural development, intimate partner violence, and women’s agency
05.12.18-
Gender equality
This year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign (Nov. 25-Dec. 10) present…
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NEW STUDY: Urbanization associated with lower rates of child stunting but higher rates of obesity among women
20.11.18-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C: Urbanization is changing the landscape of health and nutrition in Africa, and in…
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