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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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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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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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What's in the soil, stays in the soil: Conserving carbon in our soils to transform food systems
19.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We are in a time of crisis and great uncertainty. COVID-19, besides being responsible for…
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This little seed went to market
18.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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Understanding partnership dynamics to facilitate innovation scaling
18.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research for development organizations like the International Potato Center (CIP), which develop sci…
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The German Federal Government supports Kenya’s efforts for COVID-19 testing
18.05.20-
Health
Scientists preparing samples in ILRI’s Biosafety Level III facilities at it’s Nairobi laboratori…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI
16.05.20-
Health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…
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Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India’s agricultural policy
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
As the coronavirus crisis triggers a large-scale exodus of migrant agricultural workers from India…
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A four-pronged plan to secure farming communities in Eastern and Southern Africa
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
ICRISAT is working with an array of development partners in Eastern and Southern Africa to…
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Fixing the global food system after coronavirus
15.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY RUBEN ECHEVARRÍA From panic-buying in Europe, to bans on rice exports in Asia and rising fo…
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Introducing West Africa’s largest insect collection
15.05.20How do you catch all these insects? How do you know they are here? Do…
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Managing Asian food systems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond
15.05.20The post Managing Asian food systems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond appeared first…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
Big data
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Food security
While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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Sweetpotato refuse becomes a valuable resource
14.05.20-
Food security
Small-scale sweetpotato farmers in Uganda have adopted innovative technologies that not only improve…
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Australian Aid: COVID-19 and Water Resources Management
14.05.20-
Health
Reframing our priorities as a water sector The water sector has an important role to…
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Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector
14.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
As communities around the world cope with the novel coronavirus, it’s becoming clearer that the…
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Virtual seminar: IFPRI researchers on COVID-19 emerging problems and country-level responses
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
14.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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