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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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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New project aims to improve food and nutrition security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
03.08.20Photo: Screenshot of the launch meeting via videoconference Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT A recently lau…
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Drought-prone landscape turns green
31.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Kalahandi district in Odisha, India, has suffered from repeated droughts and famines for several dec…
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Enabling Niger farmers to turn seed producers
31.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
An intensive training workshop for aspiring seed producers in Niger equipped them with necessary kno…
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New project aims to improve food and nutritional security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A recently launched project, with a focus on iron- and zinc-fortified hybrids and open-pollinated va…
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Adding value to smallholder farming in Malawi
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder farmers in Malawi, with support from a seed development project and government initiativ…
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Designing resilient farming systems that can better meet farmers’ complex needs and confront future challenges
31.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
What strategies should farmers take in order to improve their resilience to climate change and…
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Historic wheat research station poised to host cutting-edge research
30.07.20It was the site where International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) scientist Norman Bor…
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Work to develop high yielding Striga tolerant maize seed is bearing fruit
30.07.20-
Food security
Striga, an invasive parasitic weed with purple-colored flowers, looks striking and harmless. But, be…
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Policy seminar: Europe’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies aim to build healthy and sustainable food systems
30.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By Khiem Nguyen The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have underlined the importance of…
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It is time to rethink Uganda’s policy approach to trees on farms
30.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers call on the Government to promulgate the draft national agroforestry strategy to hasten …
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COVID-19 and food security | Limiting the impact of the crisis on rice value chains in West Africa
30.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 30 July 2020 -- Rice plays a strategic role in food…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests study in the spotlight at COFI virtual dialogues
30.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 300 experts from over 50 countries are contributing to the Illuminating Hidden Harvests…
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“Better, faster, equitable, sustainable” – wheat research community partners join to kick off new breeding project
29.07.20More than 100 scientists, crop breeders, researchers, and representatives from funding and national …
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IITA scientists spearhead efforts to save East Africa’s potatoes from a new pest threat
29.07.20Scientists at CGIAR-IITA, working with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Semantics and words matter for analyzing gender and social inclusivity in development projects
27.07.20-
Environmental health
The Agrobiodiversity Index and the Enhancing Sustainability Across Agricultural Systems of the Water…
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2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report: Rising hunger and COVID-19 present formidable challenges
27.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Khiem Nguyen Almost 690 million people went hungry around the world in 2019, an…
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Policy seminar: The impacts and legacy of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative
27.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Khiem Nguyen Launched in 1993 and recently concluded, IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative was an o…
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