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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
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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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Meet CGIAR-IITA’s women fighting plant pests and diseases
04.04.2011 February was the International Day for Women and Girls in Science. IITA joined the rest of…
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A rich harvest of not just legumes but of changed destinies and better nutrition
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Charting the 12 year course of the Tropical Legumes project This compilation of real-life ‘impact…
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Rising market pull for dryland crops prompts move for setting up efficient seed delivery systems
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Increasing market demand for dryland crops in Kenya and Tanzania owing to IFAD-funded project interv…
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Certified seed fetches twice the market rate: Farmers hitch onto seed production
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Gender equality
Growing certified improved seed of millets and legumes is a profitable business enterprise for farme…
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More stakes, more climbing beans, less malnutrition: Rwanda finds a solution in agroforestry
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Food security
In Rwanda, the demand for adequate and nutritious food continues to rise as the population…
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Biocontrol reduces Maruca pod borer population by 85%
03.04.20Scientists based at CGIAR-IITA’s climate change station in Benin are happy with the results of…
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IRRI committed to working with partners, governments to ensure continued food and nutrition security amid COVID-19 outbreak
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Food security
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Nutrition
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across almost 200 countries and territories around the world…
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How we can use the COVID-19 disruption to improve food systems and address the climate emergency
03.04.20At first glance, the COVID-19 crisis appears to have nothing to do with the climate…
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A compendium of knowledge on tropical roots and tubers
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Food security
A second edition of the indispensable handbook Tropical Root and Tuber Crops: Cassava, Sweet Potato,…
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How COVID-19 may disrupt food supply chains in developing countries
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Food security
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Health
BY THOMAS REARDON, MARC F. BELLEMARE AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The organization of food supply chains (F…
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Building synergy between sweetpotato breeding and seed systems in East and Central Africa
02.04.20SweetGAINS (Genetic Advances and Innovative Seed Systems) is a program to accelerate and expand the…
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Insecurity in Niger: reversing the gains made in land restoration
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Gender equality
Just two years into the implementation of the Reversing Land Degradation in Africa by Scaling-up Ev…
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Wheat curl mites: What are they and how can we fight them?
01.04.20The wheat curl mite, a pesky wheat pest which can cause up to 100% yield…
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Economic impact of COVID-19 on tourism and remittances: Insights from Egypt
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Gender equality
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Health
BY CLEMENS BREISINGER, ABLA ABDEL LATIF, MARIAM RAOUF AND MANFRED WIEBELT As COVID-19 reaches eve…
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IRRI, CCAFS, CCAC boost GHG mitigation in Vietnam to reach NDC targets
01.04.20In Vietnam, rice is a dominant and important crop. Yet, traditional paddy rice production…
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COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade
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Gender equality
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Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor…
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COVID19 Highlights Need To Ensure Good Nutrition
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Nutrition
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” This well-known quote from Hippocrates…
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Remembering Peter Huxley: One of the ‘giants’ of agroforestry research
31.03.20Peter Huxley was one of the ‘giants’ of agroforestry research; one of his greatest legacies…
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