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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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Big data
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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‘Science of Discovery to Science of Delivery’ discussed at University of Cambridge
18.12.19Partnerships are key to deliver on ICRISAT’s mission of ‘Science of Discovery to Science of…
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CRP-GLDC team and the partners visit the Plant Transformation Laboratory (PTL) at Kenyatta University, in Nairobi
18.12.19The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) held its annual ‘Scienc…
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Philippines approves Golden Rice for direct use as food and feed, or for processing
18.12.19December 18, Philippines - After rigorous biosafety assessment, Golden Rice “has been found…
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New web app allows you to investigate performance of agricultural technologies
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
They all need robust evidence to inform activities and management decisions and ultimately get more…
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UN Climate Convention learns of agroforestry for land restoration in Brazil
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Senior scientist Andrew Miccolis shared success stories of restoration with agroforestry, including …
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Prevention is better than cure
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Food security
Whenever seed is transferred between countries, continents or regions there is an inherent risk that…
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STAARS Fellowship Program: 2020 Call for Proposals
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ca…
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Non-party actions will hold the key as negotiations fail to deliver ambitious action
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The 25th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP25) con…
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What must be done to get toxin out of Kenya’s food supply
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Health
In this article republished from The Conversation, Vivian Hoffmann shares insights on risks associat…
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Can weather index insurance help farmers adapt to climate change?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Fourth in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under…
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Call for abstracts now open: ANH Academy Week 2020
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Nutrition
The 2020 Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week will be held in Malawi from 29…
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Key technology for biofortification goes online
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Big data
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Biodiversity
Online platform opens up easy access to x-ray fluorescence testing at ICRISAT To support development…
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A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and…
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UN chiefs strengthen collaboration to achieve zero deforestation
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Carolina Schmidt, president of the 25th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Conve…
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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,…
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Off the press: Governance of natural resources
12.12.19Select 2019 journal articles from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets …
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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…
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Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that…
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