News
Featured news
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
-
Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more
Filters
-
New paper on relationship between autonomy and decision making contributes to understanding and measurement of women’s empowerment
07.08.18-
Gender equality
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of women’s empowerment, ambiguity still exists abou…
Read more -
-
When ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’
07.08.18-
Food security
-
Gender equality
This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pas…
Read more -
-
Rights in the DRC: Whose rights matter?
06.08.18-
Gender equality
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - “We need change,” says Dorothée Lisenga, indigenous delegate…
Read more -
-
Women farmers’ Crop Cafeteria serves practical rice science
29.07.18-
Food security
-
Gender equality
A women’s self-help group in a small village in Odisha leads the way in innovative…
Read more -
-
A thriving community of women seed producers
26.07.18-
Gender equality
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It started with just three women farmers who were part of a pilot from Pagou…
Read more -
-
Empowered Women and an Enriched Community: The Groundnut Story of Northern Nigeria
19.07.18-
Gender equality
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mrs Hadja Talatu Idrissa of Bunkure, near Kano, Nigeria, is the leader of a 25-women…
Read more -
-
Policy seminar: Building resilience by fostering gender equity at the household level
17.07.18-
Gender equality
BY GRACE COLLORD While development programs today increasingly focus on promoting resilience, such e…
Read more -
-
In Kenya, no progress on progressive 30% gender quota
02.07.18-
Gender equality
Kenya - Talking about local resource management in the context of rural African communities means…
Read more -
-
Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
02.07.18-
Gender equality
-
Nutrition
Women play critical roles in the small-scale livestock systems that remain ubiquitous in the develop…
Read more -
-
Reading between the gender lines among coffee farming households in Uganda
02.07.18-
Gender equality
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How can gender be approached in Uganda's coffee value chain? Coffee in Uganda is traditionally…
Read more -
-
The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
29.06.18-
Gender equality
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s…
Read more -
-
Livestock-enhanced diets in the first 1,000 days of life: Pathways to better futures in low-income countries
19.06.18-
Gender equality
-
Nutrition
A new report was published this month on the value of ensuring consumption of meat,…
Read more -
-
Delayed Pregnancy, Reduced Open Defecation key factors in Reducing Anemia Among Indian Women
14.06.18-
Gender equality
-
Health
Washington, D.C.: Reduction of open-defecation in villages, increased age at pregnancy, and women’…
Read more -
-
Gender takes center stage at European Development Days
14.06.18-
Gender equality
BY SARA GUSTAFSON AND HAZEL MALAPIT If we want to eradicate poverty, we need gender equality.…
Read more -
-
Collecting gender-disaggregated data, and what to do with it
04.06.18-
Environmental health
-
Gender equality
Collecting robust sex-disaggregated data on forests and climate is one thing, but analyzing it and…
Read more -
-
Do men and women benefit equally from technology adoption? New paper explores
18.05.18-
Gender equality
Researchers have sought to understand what keeps women’s observed rates of agricultural technology…
Read more -
-
IFAD conference: Can development really succeed if rural inequalities are rising?
14.05.18-
Food security
-
Gender equality
BY HAZEL MALAPIT “Do policies to reduce rural poverty also reduce rural inequality? Should we…
Read more -
-
Women at the helm of change – one-on-one with the Kyanika Adult Women Group
14.05.18-
Gender equality
-
Nutrition
Kyanika Adult Women Group has been a significant stakeholder in Bioversity International’s work in…
Read more -