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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-
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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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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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New project offers circular-economy solutions for refugee and host communities in East Africa
24.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new three-year project that will pilot and scale locally viable and gender-responsive circular-eco…
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Book launch: Ghana’s prospects for economic transformation
17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over the past 30 years, Ghana has experienced steady growth in per capita income and…
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ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a…
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Ghanaian farmers can now control Aflatoxin, earn big
14.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A study has identified the best non-toxic strains that can limit aflatoxin contamination in laborato…
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CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia
10.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Ag…
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Agricultural growth is key to spur Ghana's economic growth
09.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana has been viewed as one of Africa's political and economic success stories, from maintaining…
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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
07.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
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Closing the gap: women-focused initiative empowers farmers in Odisha
03.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Women farmers make up a sizeable part of rice production, but they have less opportunities…
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Climate mitigation can support growth in developing countries
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Climate change is already upon us. Proliferating and intensifying natural disasters, soaring numbers…
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Informal traders in Africa’s cities: Coopted, coerced or just neglected?
01.10.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early 2018, as Zambia’s capital of Lusaka faced a widening cholera epidemic, the country’s…
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Informal traders in African cities are being used as political pawns
30.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What’s needed to ensure that informal traders are handled fairly and humanely rather than being…
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Call for proposals: The political economy of food system transformation
25.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) is issuing a call for…
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IFPRI at the African Association of Agricultural Economists conference
23.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Association of Agricultural Economists holds its 6th annual conference this week in Ab…
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Special event: Nurul Islam on a lifetime in global development
19.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In his more than 60 years of work in international development, IFPRI Research Fellow Emeritus Nuru…
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The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
18.09.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of…
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How small businesses are driving growth across African agriculture
12.09.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new report from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) finds that millions of sm…
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IRRI co-organizes multi-stakeholder dialogue to strengthen extension and advisory services in Odisha
11.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the Department of Agriculture and Fa…
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