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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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International Day of Rural Women 2020: Building resilience and gender equity in the face of COVID-19
14.10.20-
Gender equality
BY EMILY MYERS, MUZNA ALVI AND AGNES QUISUMBING “We do not want charity, we just…
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PIM News: September-October 2020
13.10.20Introducing the new series of PIM Synthesis Briefs, new books and papers, blogs and webinars…
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Book launch: Ethiopia’s evolving agrifood system faces new challenges
13.10.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF Over the past two decades, Ethiopia’s economy has seen wide-ranging changes. Agr…
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Rural women are key for limiting crop pests and diseases
13.10.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When a community-led disease management strategy in Ethiopia failed to stave off highly destructive …
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HarvestPlus Webinar Focused on Path for Scaling Up Biofortification Amid COVID-19
13.10.20-
Food security
HarvestPlus hosted a webinar on “Improving Nutrition Security with Biofortified Crops: Lessons Fro…
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Experts review policy innovation to improve milk safety in informal markets
13.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A new research report (Oct 2020) by scientists from the International Institute for Environment and…
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Against the grain: New paper reveals the overlooked health benefits of maize and wheat
12.10.20-
Nutrition
Cereal crops like maize and wheat deserve greater consideration as part of a healthy, nutritious…
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In case of fall armyworm, watch this video
12.10.20-
Food security
To the first-time observer, the aftermath of a fall armyworm infestation must be terrifying. The…
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Effective research during COVID-19 and other food system shocks: Here’s 10 tips
12.10.20-
Big data
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Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the market, trade and supply chains limiting food accessibility…
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Strong Women, Strong Nation
12.10.20-
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Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help…
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Study finds untapped climate-resilience in sweetpotato
10.10.20Extreme weather events and other effects of climate change already challenge farmers’ ability to g…
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Empowered rural women take on entrepreneurship
09.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The COVID-19 lockdown has been hard on people across India, but particularly agonizing for families…
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Honoring the life and legacy of Donald Winkelmann
09.10.20With sorrow we report the passing of Donald Winkelmann, who served as Director General of…
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Au revoir, Paco
09.10.20-
Gender equality
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Health
ICRISAT bids an emotional farewell to Dr Paco Sereme, a member of ICRISAT’s Governing Board…
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On a mission to nurture hunger-free drylands
09.10.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The 95th Governing Board meeting, held virtually, affirmed ICRISAT’s commitment to a hunger-free …
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Prof Prabhu Pingali takes the baton as Chair of ICRISAT Governing Board
09.10.20-
Gender equality
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Health
Prof Prabhu Pingali, Founding Director, Tata-Cornell Institute, took charge as ICRISAT Governing Boa…
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En route to improved agronomic literacy
08.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the years of the Nepal's civil war, women in rural villages like Masuriya faced…
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Inside Ethiopia’s agricultural success story
08.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Ethiopia’s rapid economic and agricultural growth over the past two decades i…
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