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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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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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Reaching Farmers and Vulnerable Communities Amid COVID-19
28.04.20-
Nutrition
As the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to contain it impact economies and societies around the…
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Biblical, on steroids, and across generations: The coming food and nutrition crash can be averted if we act now to counter the COVID-19 crisis
28.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY LAWRENCE HADDAD “Biblical.” That was the word that the world’s press needed to (finally)…
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What the COVID-19 led Global Economic Recession could mean for Rice-Based Food Security in Asia
28.04.20-
Food security
By Harold Glenn A. Valera, Jean Balié, and Valerien O. Pede An economic slowdown…
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When climate and Covid-19 collide: Ten steps to prepare South Asia
28.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As if managing the evolving coronavirus pandemic is not enough, countries in South Asia are…
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COVID-19: How the development community can contribute to food system recovery and resilience
27.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
In the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, open, data-driven collaboration and digitally-enabled…
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Down to Earth: When COVID-19, climate collide: How south Asia can prepare itself
27.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Careful planning is needed to avoid major damage, while marshalling resources towards limiting the s…
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The COVID-19 nutritional crisis: What to expect and how to protect
27.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has all the makings of a perfect storm for global malnutrition. The…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
26.04.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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Reshaping food systems after COVID-19
26.04.20-
Food security
Food systems are undergoing transformations all over the world. How will COVID-19 shape those transf…
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India groundnut farmers’ seed business debut yields big profits
26.04.20High seed rates, low seed multiplication ratio and quick loss of seed viability are some…
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A farewell to IFPRI Africa Director Ousmane Badiane
24.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR Over his 30 years at IFPRI, recently-retired Director for Africa Ousmane Badiane…
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8 Food Security Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis
24.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social…
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Is a pandemic the time to think about genebanks?
24.04.20-
Biodiversity
Reasons to consider seeds in the time of the coronavirus Perhaps you think that the…
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India groundnut farmers’ seed business debut yields big profits
24.04.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
A group of Indian farmers who made their entrepreneurial debut last year increased their income…
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Reimagining ecosystem-based adaptation practices based on community priorities and preferences in The Gambia
24.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report of 2005 have changed the global percept…
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Expert review examines impact of mycotoxins on dairy cattle health in sub-Saharan Africa
24.04.20-
Health
A new review paper published in the journal Toxins (April 2020) describes the major mycotoxins,…
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Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessment
24.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Most of Uganda’s population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture is h…
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Global Report on Food Crises: 135 million in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2019
23.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SARA GUSTAFSON An estimated 135 million people in 55 countries around the world faced…
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