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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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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
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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Flipping the script on rainfall data
29.05.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the last few hours before Covid-19 locked CGIAR centers staff into remote work, a…
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Virtual seminar: Build on knowledge, translate to action with the 2020 Global Food Policy Report
29.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) was written before the ou…
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Timor-Leste to scale up aquaculture sector, offering lessons to other nations
29.05.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Timor-Leste will ramp up production of farmed fish to boost incomes and nutrient intakes, providing…
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Battling devastating viral diseases, also in plants
28.05.20-
Food security
When a maize lethal necrosis (MLN) outbreak happened in Kenya in 2011, scientists knew they…
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Scaling Up: Zimbabwe’s Sky Brands Expansion Benefits Smallholder Farm Suppliers
28.05.20Sky Brands, the biofortified food start-up founded by two young entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe, is ready…
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Transforming food systems for a new era: Enabling markets and public sector actions to incentivize sustainable practices
28.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Many technologies and practices can help farmers improve their incomes and help the environment, but…
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Rethink water for SDG 6 and beyond – more urgent than ever
27.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Only if we rethink the paradigms that have guided water policy and investments so far,…
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IITA scientist develops a cheaper and faster tool for identifying whiteflies
27.05.20-
Food security
A CGIAR-IITA scientist has developed a more cost and time effective molecular diagnostic tool that…
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Nourishing the world: The contribution of fish to sustainable food futures
27.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Globally, food production is exceeding sustainable limits while also failing to provide healt…
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Africa’s most vulnerable are called to bear the brunt of a pandemic
27.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Securing farming communities through and after COVID-19 is a priority One of world’s harshest terr…
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The high cost of West Africa's “free trade” in food
26.05.20Abdul Rahman, a cargo driver loading tomatoes, is charged each time he crosses the border…
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CGIAR awarding 100K in Rapid Response Grants to digital innovations tackling COVID-19 impacts
26.05.20-
Big data
In response to the unfolding food security issues brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR’s…
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CIMMYT for Mexico in times of a global pandemic
26.05.20-
Food security
CIMMYT has been working hand in hand with Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Developmen…
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New multipurpose sorghum variety captures attention in Burkina Faso
26.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
A new variety of sorghum that delivers high yields of grain and stover is gaining…
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Can Egypt’s fish markets empower women and men retailers equally? Prospects for change and barriers to success
26.05.20-
Gender equality
Unless gender inequalities in food systems are recognized and addressed, nutrition security and pove…
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Biodiversity Day 2020 – Solutions in Nature
26.05.20The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to raise…
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Covid crisis has shown India’s food policy must have buffer stocks at community level too
26.05.20Representational image for Indian agriculture | Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloomberg Accustomed…
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Transforming food systems for a new era: Supporting prosperity through mobility and rural reinvigoration
26.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A number of years ago, while interviewing farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe, one of us (Bruce)…
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