News
Featured news
-
World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
Read more -
Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
Read more -
Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
Read more -
AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
Ojanji Wandera16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
Read more -
-
Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
Read more -
International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
Read more
Filters
-
Cacao Lovers Rejoice: Cacao of Excellence R&D Laboratory and Training Centre Unveiled
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)30.03.23-
Biodiversity
ROME, ITALY - Cacao of Excellence is proud to unveil its new state-of-the-art cacao R&D…
Read more -
-
Nexus thinking needed to implement COP15 biodiversity targets
CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains24.02.23-
Biodiversity
In December 2022, over 190 nations gathered in Montreal, Canada to finalize the Global Biodiversity…
Read more -
-
Wild relatives add significant agronomic improvement and disease resistance to lentils
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)19.02.23-
Biodiversity
In the face of declining biodiversity, it is necessary to widen the genetic base of…
Read more -
-
IRRI and ACB: Igniting partnerships for ASEAN agrobiodiversity
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)14.02.23-
Biodiversity
-
Food security
IRRI’s Director Jean Balié and Deputy Director General for Strategy, Engagement and Impact, Joann…
Read more -
-
“Revive and Restore Degraded Wetlands”, what will it take?
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)01.02.23-
Biodiversity
-
Mitigation
Wise use calls for balance between maintaining key wetlands functions while not unduly restricting w…
Read more -
-
There will be no future for humans, without a future for nature
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)16.12.22-
Biodiversity
Speech Delivered By: Juan Lucas Restrepo on behalf of CGIAR Event: UN Biodiversity Conference, COP…
Read more -
-
What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?
CGIAR Initiative on Foresight15.12.22-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Nicola Cenacchi, Elisabetta Gotor, Athanasios Petsakos, and Benjamin Schiek Food, land, and wate…
Read more -
-
Co-design of agroecological transition pathways: Outcomes of an early Pause and Reflect of the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology
CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology06.12.22-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health
Agroecology is gaining momentum. The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology can be seen as a strong…
Read more -
-
Soil: where food begins
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)05.12.22-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Mina Devkota Wasti - ICARDA Agronomist, and Rachid Moussadek, ICARDA Systems Cropping Agronomist …
Read more -
-
Wild, Edible, and Nutritious! Research and recipes reveal the benefits of regional Turkish plants
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)06.10.22-
Biodiversity
-
Nutrition, health & food security
Visit any of Türkiye’s regions and you will find diverse plants growing in uncultivated areas…
Read more -
-
Greenhouse upgrades at BWMRI for wheat blast research
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.09.22-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Md. Sayedul Islam inaugurated the greenhouse complex along with Golam Faruq and Md. Benojir Alam.…
Read more -
-
Opportunities abound for investors in Africa's low-value species market, says WorldFish
WorldFish09.08.22-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
-
Food security
-
Gender equality
-
Health
-
Nutrition
-
Nutrition, health & food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The organization is trying to create a climate-change resilient tilapia that can withstand higher oc…
Read more -
-
ICARDA student Abd-Al Rahman Moukahel wins Young Scientist Poster Award
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)04.08.22-
Biodiversity
ICARDA is proud to announce that a scientific poster developed by Mr. Abd-Al Rahman Moukahel…
Read more -
-
Got Quinoa Milk? New products spur farmers’ efforts to save Peruvian grains
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.07.22-
Biodiversity
-
Nutrition, health & food security
In quinoa’s ancestral homeland, farmers are revitalizing production of threatened varieties with s…
Read more -
-
The impact of the International Rice Genebank on rice farming in Bangladesh
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)22.07.22-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
-
Food security
-
Nutrition, health & food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The findings of this study demonstrate the valuable contribution of IRG’s conservation and distrib…
Read more -
-
Appropriate technology, revisited
Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service29.04.22-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
For decades, farmers in the American corn belt have been battling a persistent and elusive…
Read more -
-
Svalbard ‘doomsday’ vault receives additional ICARDA seed samples
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)17.04.22-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
In an effort to further safeguard critically important biodiversity to strengthen the climate resili…
Read more -
-
Innovating with Roots, Tubers and Bananas
International Potato Center (CIP)11.04.22-
Biodiversity
We are delighted to announce the publication of the book “Root, Tuber and Banana Food…
Read more -