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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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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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Rising market pull for dryland crops prompts move for setting up efficient seed delivery systems
03.04.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Increasing market demand for dryland crops in Kenya and Tanzania owing to IFAD-funded project interv…
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Certified seed fetches twice the market rate: Farmers hitch onto seed production
03.04.20-
Gender equality
Growing certified improved seed of millets and legumes is a profitable business enterprise for farme…
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More stakes, more climbing beans, less malnutrition: Rwanda finds a solution in agroforestry
03.04.20-
Food security
In Rwanda, the demand for adequate and nutritious food continues to rise as the population…
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Biocontrol reduces Maruca pod borer population by 85%
03.04.20Scientists based at CGIAR-IITA’s climate change station in Benin are happy with the results of…
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IRRI committed to working with partners, governments to ensure continued food and nutrition security amid COVID-19 outbreak
03.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across almost 200 countries and territories around the world…
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How we can use the COVID-19 disruption to improve food systems and address the climate emergency
03.04.20At first glance, the COVID-19 crisis appears to have nothing to do with the climate…
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A compendium of knowledge on tropical roots and tubers
02.04.20-
Food security
A second edition of the indispensable handbook Tropical Root and Tuber Crops: Cassava, Sweet Potato,…
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How COVID-19 may disrupt food supply chains in developing countries
02.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY THOMAS REARDON, MARC F. BELLEMARE AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The organization of food supply chains (F…
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Building synergy between sweetpotato breeding and seed systems in East and Central Africa
02.04.20SweetGAINS (Genetic Advances and Innovative Seed Systems) is a program to accelerate and expand the…
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Insecurity in Niger: reversing the gains made in land restoration
02.04.20-
Gender equality
Just two years into the implementation of the Reversing Land Degradation in Africa by Scaling-up Ev…
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Wheat curl mites: What are they and how can we fight them?
01.04.20The wheat curl mite, a pesky wheat pest which can cause up to 100% yield…
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Economic impact of COVID-19 on tourism and remittances: Insights from Egypt
01.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY CLEMENS BREISINGER, ABLA ABDEL LATIF, MARIAM RAOUF AND MANFRED WIEBELT As COVID-19 reaches eve…
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IRRI, CCAFS, CCAC boost GHG mitigation in Vietnam to reach NDC targets
01.04.20In Vietnam, rice is a dominant and important crop. Yet, traditional paddy rice production…
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COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade
31.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor…
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COVID19 Highlights Need To Ensure Good Nutrition
31.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” This well-known quote from Hippocrates…
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Remembering Peter Huxley: One of the ‘giants’ of agroforestry research
31.03.20Peter Huxley was one of the ‘giants’ of agroforestry research; one of his greatest legacies…
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Nutrix – the big reach of small fish in nourishing Cambodia
31.03.20-
Nutrition
Lyndon Paul offers a tube-shaped wafer for me to try. It fractures as I bite,…
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From sledgehammer to scalpel: Scientists say a ‘moonshot effort’ is needed to end social distancing and this pandemic
31.03.20-
Health
Earthrise, as seen from Apollo 8, Dec 1968 (photo credit: astronaut William Anders). Scientists say…
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