News
Featured news
-
Four Essential Podcasts Featuring Dr. Ismahane Elouafi: Science, Systems, and the Future of Food
29.04.25In an era marked by mounting crises—climate extremes, deepening inequality, and growing food insec…
Read more -
The Road to Ending Malnutrition: How the Paris N4G Summit Sparked a Global Call to Action
17.04.25The Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit brought global leaders and organizations together in a…
Read more -
Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
Read more -
Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
Read more -
MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
Read more -
Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
Read more
Filters
-
A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development
13.12.19-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and…
Read more -
-
UN chiefs strengthen collaboration to achieve zero deforestation
13.12.19-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Carolina Schmidt, president of the 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Conve…
Read more -
-
Ethiopia has a Nobel Prize and a roaring economy. Can it also gain a food secure future?
13.12.19Published as an Op-Ed on CNBC Ethiopia is now Africa’s fastest-growing economy, and this week,…
Read more -
Off the press: Governance of natural resources
12.12.19Select 2019 journal articles from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets …
Read more -
Program launch: IFPRI, Rwanda government partner on policy analysis, capacity strengthening for rural transformation
12.12.19Building on its remarkable social and economic progress over the past two decades, Rwanda is…
Read more -
Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
12.12.19-
Biodiversity
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that…
Read more -
-
Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
12.12.19Millions of smallholder farmers are struggling under immediate climate change impacts and need respi…
Read more -
Latin America & Caribbean strengthen their cooperation for climate action
12.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean is particularly vulnerable to the effects…
Read more -
-
Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
11.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
Third in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under climate…
Read more -
-
What is wheat blast?
11.12.19-
Food security
There are no widely available resistant varieties, and fungicides are expensive and provide only a…
Read more -
-
Global symposium brings scientists and policymakers together for a “new vision” of sustainable fisheries
11.12.19Fish harvested from naturally occurring stocks in ocean, coastal and inland waters are crucia…
Read more -
The crippling of the multilateral trading system
10.12.19-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As of today (Dec. 10), the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has…
Read more -
-
Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
10.12.19-
Big data
-
Food security
Digital technologies are key to transforming food systems and agriculture across Africa. A Nov. 26…
Read more -
-
Screening cycle for deadly MLN virus set to begin in Kenya in January 2020
09.12.19-
Food security
The maize lethal necrosis (MLN) artificial inoculation screening site in Naivasha, Kenya, will begin…
Read more -
-
Overlooked, underused crops: An answer to our food system problems?
09.12.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
A recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rang alarm bells about the…
Read more -
-
African Plant Breeders Association launched in Ghana
09.12.19The African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) was launched recently to bring together plant breeders…
Read more -
New dual-purpose pearl millet shows promise as excellent fodder in Niger
09.12.19Two varieties of dual-purpose (food and fodder) pearl millet were shown to increase weight and…
Read more -
The challenge of ensuring water supply in the Philippines
09.12.19-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Creating incentives for communities to help secure water supply is a win-win situation but without…
Read more -