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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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IITA releases 10-year strategy for managing invasive species in Africa
04.07.20Prevention, early detection and control make up the three-pronged approach that Africa is taking on…
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Facing COVID-19 in the highlands of Madagascar: How are the rural households and women coping?
03.07.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Contributed by Gaudiose Mujawamariya, Rice Value Chain Expert and Gender Focal Point, and Irina Andr…
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New highly productive sorghum varieties released
03.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
Three improved sorghum varieties with a yield potential of approximately 4 tons per hectare and…
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Secret to on-off fertility discovered in pigeonpea
03.07.20New study reveals how in some lines male sterility can be reversed to produce hybrids…
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Sacred forests and environmental protection among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia
03.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Gedeo’s sacred forests are conserved for ritual purposes,’ said Yoseph Maru, first author of…
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Fostering a sustainable cassava seed system for Nigeria
03.07.20-
Food security
When the Building an economically Sustainable, Integrated Seed System for Cassava (BASICS) project w…
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Prepare food systems for a long-haul fight against COVID-19
02.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Maximo Torero The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard, and in many…
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West Africa | 40 000 producers will benefit from a new European plant breeding project
02.07.20Photo: Groundnut producers from the Fatick region (Senegal) visiting demonstration plots of new vari…
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Annual Report 2019 launched
01.07.20The year 2019 showed us that while CIMMYT’s work may begin with seeds, our innovations…
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Prioritizing aquatic food systems key to global food, nutrition security, say panellists at Virtual Ocean Dialogues.
01.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Increased commitment to aquatic food systems will boost food and nutritional security as the world…
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New brief details drivers of stunting reduction in Vietnam
01.07.20-
Nutrition
This Stories of Change in Nutrition study aims to understand the history, contemporary treatment and…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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New study sheds light on early intensification of smallholder backyard poultry farming systems
01.07.20-
Food security
A new research study published in the journal Animal (24 June 2020) investigated early intensificati…
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CIFOR’s Robert Nasi to U.S. congressional staff: wildlife trade, ecosystem degradation and climate change, major drivers of emerging infectious diseases
30.06.20Ample evidence exists to show that landscape changes resulting from ecosystem fragmentation and degr…
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Making livestock vaccination campaigns work for farmers in East Africa
30.06.20-
Health
Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute have published a study on the uptake …
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The critical role of women in avoiding a Covid-19 “food pandemic” in sub-Saharan Africa
29.06.20-
Gender equality
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Jun 24 2020 (IPS) – As infections with Covid-19 appear to be intensifyi…
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Micronutrient status in the DR Congo: What to do when diet and blood measurements do and don’t align
29.06.20-
Health
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Nutrition
By Kristina Michaux and Erick Boy Deficiency of one or more micronutrients, particularly iron, vitam…
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WEBINAR: Merging ecosystem-based adaptation and insurance/finance: why we need it!
29.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this exciting webinar, held 19 June 2020, experts discussed the opportunities and challenges for…
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