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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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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New CGIAR collaboration to build climate-smart food systems in Malawi
30.09.20In Malawi—the warm heart of Africa—a constantly changing climate poses a threat to the food,…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19 impacts on African agricultural trade and food security
30.09.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JULIE KURTZ The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a number of African agricultural exports, while…
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Ensuring Delivery of Biofortified Crops and Foods Amid COVID-19 in Nigeria
30.09.20-
Food security
As the global spread of COVID-19 disrupted agricultural value chains in numerous countries, HarvestP…
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A decade of CCAFS: Two big lessons for the future of climate-smart food systems
30.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Our food systems are failing us—the wealth of literature that's now available tells us this…
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Cost and safety of food are major factors influencing adolescents’ food choices in urban Ethiopia
29.09.20-
Food security
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Health
An innovative study by the universities of Addis Ababa and Wageningen and the French National…
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New methods aren’t always silver bullets: Challenges with use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for elasticity estimation
29.09.20-
Food security
BY ALAN DE BRAUW AND SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ How do different types of expenditures relate to households'…
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Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance
29.09.20-
Health
A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020)…
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Wheat blast has made the intercontinental jump to Africa
29.09.20-
Food security
Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunity to rethink status quo conservation efforts
29.09.20-
Nutrition
The coronavirus pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink generally accepted underperforming busine…
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Red hot potato market could spell trouble for farmers in India
28.09.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Potato prices in India started rising in December 2019 due to the delay in harvesting…
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IFPRI mentorship journeys: Providing advice and research support for Malawi agriculture students
28.09.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY SANDRA FRÖBE-KALTENBACH AND CYNTHIA KAZEMBE First in a two-part series on IFPRI Malawi’s Bund…
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Gender equality in food systems: the ‘new normal’
28.09.20-
Gender equality
CGIAR’s new platform designed to put gender equality at the forefront of global agricultural resea…
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Building gender and youth research capacities for agriculture and development
28.09.20Photo: Phillip Miriti (in black) during a field interview in Ethiopia (ICRISAT) Aspiring researchers…
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Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
28.09.20Photo: Women farmers during a grafting demonstration in Niger. (B Traore, ICRISAT) A group of…
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Striding towards streamlined crop improvement programs
28.09.20To better accomplish its mission by providing improved crop varieties to smallholder farmers, ICRISA…
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Food from fallows: Capitalizing on idle land for better food security in South Asia
28.09.20Photo: Farmers visiting ICARDA platform FLRP, Amlaha, Grasspea plot under scaling (Ashutosh Sarker) …
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Nigeria approves new names for top performing cassava varieties
26.09.20The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday evening approved new names for 10 improved cassava…
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Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
25.09.20-
Gender equality
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Health
A group of women across four regions of south-western Niger have grown 84,000 trees to…
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