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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-
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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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Book launch: COVID-19 and global food security - what have we learned so far?
17.08.20-
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BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post is based on remarks delivered during the Aug. 4 launch event for the…
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How many trees does a healthy watershed need?
17.08.20-
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Indonesian spatial-planning law prescribes that every district needs to have 30% forest cover to sec…
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Digital defenses: Can high-tech insurance flood-proof vulnerable farmers?
14.08.20-
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When climate disasters strike, farmers are among the first to feel the consequences. This was…
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Soil-borne pathogen new to chickpea growing regions in India detected
14.08.20-
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A soil-borne pathogen, new to chickpea growing regions in India, was detected during a real-time…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
14.08.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A superior export-quality confectionery groundnut variety that comes with a higher benefit-cost rati…
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Legumes grow money: Success script of seed systems in Malawi
14.08.20-
Environmental health
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An estimated US$ 40 million per annum, up from US$ 17 million in 2009, was…
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Multi-national company nurtures a Climate-Smart Village, facilitates return of migrant farmers
14.08.20-
Gender equality
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Plummeting groundwater levels and adverse rainfall patterns forced farmers in Buchinelli village in …
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‘Data streaming from the spectrometer’: a new dawn for soil assessments
13.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
For over two decades, the Soils Theme of World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in collaboration with partners…
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A food system integration story: Fish with roots, tubers and bananas
13.08.20-
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What do catfish and bananas have in common? No, this is not a riddle or…
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Key recommendations to boost small-scale aquaculture in inland Myanmar
13.08.20-
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Small-scale aquaculture is a vital source of food and income in Myanmar. At present, it…
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Alison Bentley to be new Global Wheat Program director
13.08.20In November 2020, Alison Bentley will be joining the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Cente…
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No such thing as waste: full-purpose crops a double boon for people and livestock
13.08.20Photo: From India to Ethiopia, crop residues - the 'leftovers' after crops have been harvested…
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Zinc study suggests possible role for biofortification in addressing non-communicable diseases
12.08.20-
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By Laura Pompano and Erick Boy The double burden of malnutrition is a rapidly growing…
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Creative solutions to deliver planting material under lockdown
10.08.20With lockdowns, curfews and other constraints along food supply chains, many farmers have struggled …
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Policy seminar: How food businesses are coping with COVID-19
10.08.20-
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By Swati Malhotra The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the world’s economy, food syste…
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New ICRISAT groundnut varieties to be available from the next season
10.08.20Photo: ICRISAT scientists Dr Janila Pasupuleti (L) and Dr Pooran Gaur (R) presenting packs of…
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Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet varieties
10.08.20Photo: (L) Finger millet on-station trial at Chitedze research station. (R) On-farm chickpea trial i…
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What have we learned about the Science of Scaling?
09.08.20-
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One Acre Fund works with approximately 450,000 farm households in Rwanda, and is collaborating with…
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