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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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Youth or Young mothers? the paradox of transitions in the rural women’s lives
20.10.202020 is a unique year. We have spent most of it ‘surprised’ by the turn…
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CGIAR focus on gene editing crops for a food and income secure future
20.10.20“The vision of CGIAR breeding is to have world-class breeding programs to have CGIAR-and National…
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Resilient rural women of the drylands
20.10.20Long before COVID constraints crept in, ‘resilience’ was and is the operative word for agri-food…
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Indian PM Narendra Modi dedicates two ‘healthy oil’ groundnut varieties on World Food Day
20.10.20-
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Two groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content, developed by ICRISAT together with the Indian…
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Climate-smart innovations can boost aquatic food systems productivity in Bangladesh, says climate change expert
20.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Climate-smart innovations are urgently needed to help poor and vulnerable aquatic food system actors…
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AgriFoodTrust platform gains momentum in quest for more inclusive, transparent agriculture
19.10.20-
Big data
The AgriFoodTrust platform is gaining traction in its quest to bring inclusive and usable trust an…
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New AGG project aims to accelerate genetic gains in maize and wheat
19.10.20By Joshua Masinde CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) is contributing its science-backed support to …
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Celebrating Open Access Week 2020 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health
19.10.20-
Health
International Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about open access publishing of…
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Field Notes: Boosting small-scale aquaculture productivity in inland Myanmar
19.10.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Myanmar is one of the largest fish producers in the world. The country ranks among…
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Bethany Smith – Emerging Scientist Series
19.10.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Bethany Smith is a junior researcher working remotely from Australia for the WorldFish Myanmar team.…
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How alternative views on food systems lead to different food policies
19.10.20-
Food security
The authors detail their recent study of differences and similarities among more than 30 recent…
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Developing digital tools to optimize water use in agriculture
18.10.20Agriculture accounts for about 70% of global freshwater use, and as the population grows, so…
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An app to help potato farmers reduce agrochemical use
18.10.20More than 170 years after it provoked the Great Famine of Ireland, late blight disease…
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Big data drives solutions to global challenges
18.10.20While CGIAR scientists have long used big data in their research for development, the COVID-19…
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The impact of COVID-19 on the food system in Nairobi
18.10.20-
Food security
There have been far reaching effects on Nairobi’s economy following the COVID-19 crisis, with the…
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Resource-poor women farmers benefit by forming collectives
18.10.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Collectives enhance productivity and improve livelihoods Poor and landless farmers can sustainably i…
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The rural woman – a powerful force that can drive global progress
17.10.20IITA joins the rest of the world to spotlight the people who feed the world—women.…
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Indian PM Narendra Modi dedicates two ‘healthy oil’ groundnut varieties on World Food Day
16.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content, developed by ICRISAT together with the Indian…
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