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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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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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Biofortification: A plausible antidote to India's hidden hunger problem
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Nutrition
A dip in India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has rightly created a stir in…
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Double duty actions in nutrition: Preventing harm and maximizing impacts on all forms of malnutrition
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Nutrition
Traditionally, the term “malnutrition” has been applied to problems such as micronutrient defici…
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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
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Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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How climate finance and technology could better integrate women
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Gender equality
Amid frustrated negotiations around Article 6 guidance on emissions counting and carbon markets, U…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
30.12.19Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Happy New Year! Here’s a baker’s dozen of ILRI’s top livestock communications in 2019
30.12.19A baker’s dozen of our favourite communications in 2019 are listed and linked to below,…
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Farmer Business Schools can help make smallholder agriculture a profitable enterprise
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Food security
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Gender equality
The idea of doubling Indian farmers’ incomes by 2022, when the country completes 75 years…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
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Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Setting the stage for hybrid pearl millet research consortium in West Africa
23.12.19Exciting times ahead as public and private institutions come together to promote millets Seed resear…
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Groundnut breeding program in Burkina Faso gets a boost with seven new improved groundnut varieties
23.12.19More than 20 years after the last groundnut seed variety was registered in the seed…
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Reducing climate change induced water stress through the Convergence Initiative
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The impacts of climate change, such as erratic rainfall and changing river runoff, made the…
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New study develops forecasting tools for better detection and control of dengue in Vietnam
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Health
A new article published in the journal PLOS ONE (27 Nov 2019) reports on the…
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Building an Africa without hunger
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Food security
Thirty-two scientists from 21 countries graduated from the African Plant Breeding Academy, led by U…
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New CGIAR ‘GENDER’ Platform and investment announced to build more inclusive agricultural benefits and greater food security in developing countries
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Food security
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Nairobi, Kenya, 18 December 2019 — CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future,…
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We can expand large-scale irrigation in Africa – carefully
19.12.19In the past two decades, African farming systems have made an important evolution. They are…
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The CGIAR Value Chains Community of Practice 2019 workshop: Methods for Diagnosing and Evaluating Agricultural Value Chains
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Gender equality
The workshop, organised by PIM and Wageningen University and Research, brought together the CGIAR Co…
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As fires rage in Brazil, a new book shows how agroforestry can heal damaged land
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Agroforestry systems (AFS), which combine trees and crops on the same land, can increase productivit…
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What we’re missing in the climate-migration story
18.12.19Published as an Op-Ed on Devex The stories are stark and frequent. Climate refugees and…
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