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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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Leading change in nutrition: Transform Nutrition West Africa holds first Francophone ‘short course’
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Nutrition
An all-African team from Transform Nutrition West Africa and the African Nutrition Leadership Progra…
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Decade-long trials prove efficacy of Nigeria’s aflatoxin biocontrol product
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Food security
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An IITA-led partnership has honed aflatoxin biocontrol for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for over 15 year…
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Rethinking poverty eradication and food security through agriculture in Africa
29.11.19Nairobi, Kenya, 28 November 2019 — Agriculture in Africa is expected to meet the dual objectives…
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For year round micronutrients, ten species of fruit trees are better than just a few
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Biodiversity
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Health
A ‘diversity fair’ is not an everyday event, so this one to showcase agrobiodiversity in…
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Do smallholders get the right seed and inputs from their agrodealer?
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Many Tanzanian smallholder farmers fail to produce even 1 ton of maize grain per hectare.…
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AfricaRice wins prestigious Al-Sumait Prize 2019
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Recognizing the important role of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) in enhancing food security in…
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IWMI joins United Nations Global Compact initiative
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
IWMI is delighted to have become a participant in the United Nations Global Compact which…
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How science is reviving the springs of Nepal
28.11.19Nestling in the Himalayan region, now acknowledged as the third-pole of the Earth, 80% of…
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Addressing food safety questions along the value chain
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Health
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Nutrition
Foodborne disease is a significant threat to global health, and food safety is a growing…
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IITA launches International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) 2020 at R4D Week
27.11.19With decades of research contributing to the improvement of plant health globally and across Africa…
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Planetary health, agroforestry and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Environmental health
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MEDIA RELEASE: Immediate Planetary health, agroforestry and Sub-Saharan Africa Nairobi, Kenya, 26 No…
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IITA Scientist elected to prestigious global science body
27.11.19Leena Tripathi, a Principal Scientist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA…
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Contributions of biodiversity to the sustainable intensification of food production
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Biodiverse agriculture is critical for the survival of the world’s food systems. A new study…
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Network analysis reveals where to act effectively in seed systems
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Food security
An innovative approach to seed systems, spearheaded by scientists working with the CGIAR Research Pr…
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Alternative meat can sustain food systems
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Pork prices in China have increased significantly of late thanks to an African swine fever…
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Students visit PATSPO BSO
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Environmental health
Grade one and two pupils of Lion Heart Academy, Addis Ababa, visited the Provision of…
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Putting new-age agronomy to test in Indian farms
26.11.19A group of farmers in India’s Telangana state is breaking new ground in their farms…
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Claudia Sadoff featured in Stockholm Water Front
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In an interview for the Stockholm Water Front magazine Claudia Sadoff raises awareness of the…
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