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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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CIMMYT releases 32 new elite maize lines
10.08.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
CIMMYT is pleased to announce the release of a set of 32 new CIMMYT maize…
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CIMMYT announces 2030 Strategy
08.08.23The world’s food systems are under threat by escalating armed conflicts, economic stagnation, the …
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Unveiling the Nexus between Agrifood Systems and Climate Change: Harvesting insights from latest IPCC report
02.08.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
August 2 is Earth Overshoot Day 2023, which marks the date when humanity’s demand for…
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Closing the gender leadership gap: The power of women role models
25.07.23-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) hosted the first seminar of Catalysts …
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Government of Nepal adopts new fertilizer recommendations
24.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Balancing the application of fertilizers based on the characteristics of soil leads to increased cro…
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Evaluation and Planning Workshop on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA)
19.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Transforming Agri-Food Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) Initiative held its Evaluation and Plannin…
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Country moving forward from wheat importer to self-sufficiency
11.07.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wheat is critical to millions of households in Pakistan as it serves a dual role…
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El Niño event declared: Impacts on the Limpopo river basin in Southern Africa
07.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) calls on policymakers and research-for…
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Bram Govaerts appointed as CIMMYT Director General
03.07.23Bram Govaerts, renowned scientist and leader, has been appointed as CIMMYT’s Director General for …
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Scientists urge shifting more nitrogen to low-input farms and better use on high-yield farms
03.07.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Integrated management of organic and inorganic nitrogen sources in high- to low-yield cereal product…
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Martin Kropff retires from CGIAR
27.06.23Former CIMMYT Director General Martin Kropff contributed a decade of his career to improving agri-fo…
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CIMMYT Director General reaffirms commitment to Zambia
23.06.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Honoring a legacy of innovative development in Zambia and looking forward to meeting the nation’s…
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New generation of farmers lead the way in making farming more productive and profitable
30.05.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
In the Indo-Gangetic Plains of northern India, nearly 70% of the population is involved in…
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Inauguration of the international soil-borne pathogens research & development center in Ankara, Turkey
29.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Staff of the International Soil Borne Pathogens Research and Development Center along with the Minis…
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Accelerating delivery of stress-tolerant, nutritious seed in Eastern and Southern Africa
23.05.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Accelerated delivery with a difference is underway in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia to ensure access…
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Crop Trust leadership visits CIMMYT
22.05.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
With many stresses facing agricultural food systems, including climate change, disease epidemics, gr…
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CIMMYT at AIM for Climate Summit
19.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
With the harmful effects of climate change, including drought and extreme temperatures moving from t…
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CIMMYT at AIM for Climate Summit
19.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
With the harmful effects of climate change, including drought and extreme temperatures moving from t…
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