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International Women’s Day 2025: Celebrating Rights, Equality, and Empowerment for All Women and Girls
CGIAR27.02.25-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Social inclusion
Every year on March 8, the world comes together to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD),…
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Scaling Aflasafe: From lab-based innovation to large-scale aflatoxin mitigation across Africa
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)24.02.25Aflatoxin contamination remains a major challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), threatening food and …
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NATURE+ in Burkina Faso: Country report 2022-2024
CGIAR Initiative on Nature-Positive Solutions20.02.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative made considerable progress in Burkina Faso. Activitie…
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Drylands under pressure: Science and solutions for global stability
CGIAR18.02.25-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Expert Voices by CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi on Science.org Drylands are the…
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María del Campo: The Image of Colombian Cacao at the International Theobroma for Peace Congress
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)05.02.25-
Nutrition, health & food security
In the midst of cacao plantations, the figure of a woman stands out with a…
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From Family Farming to Facing Africa’s Malnutrition: The Journey of Christine Chege
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)05.02.25-
Nutrition, health & food security
Christine Chege is an agri-nutrition and food systems expert at the Alliance of Bioversity Internati…
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Imagining challenging climate futures
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)29.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
This post was originally published on Ojo Al Clima (in Spanish) It has already happened to…
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Rebuttal letter sets the record straight on crop breeding for climate change resilience
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)28.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In early 2019, an article published by European climate researchers in the Proceedings of the Nat…
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Colombia could lose 60% of land suitable for irrigated rice due to climate change
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.05.19Unchecked emissions will reduce land suitable for rice in Colombia, underscoring how geography limit…
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To transform the global food system and feed the world sustainably, start at the local level
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.05.19-
Food security
In a recent meeting with a developing country policy maker, I was asked which among…
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Banana improvement project team meets to take stock, track progress and plan
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)27.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
An international team of researchers that is revolutionizing banana breeding in Eastern Africa are t…
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In China, the largest bamboo structure of its kind proclaims the plant’s future
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)27.05.19With its graceful arches blanketed by a landscape garden and reflected in the shimmering pond…
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Restore Indigenous land rights to unlock traditional knowledge and repair ecosystems
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)27.05.19Despite general acceptance by scientists, governments and investors that traditional knowledge is as…
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Niger Minister meets India’s senior agriculture officials
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)27.05.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To strengthen ties between Niger and India in areas of agriculture, Mr Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, Mini…
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SRFSI: The West Bengal story
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.05.19In India’s state of West Bengal, the success of men and women farmers and agri-entrepreneurs…
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Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)27.05.19-
Food security
Increasing production in agriculture is often a very long and arduous process. Agronomists, soil sci…
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Why Apple is investing in Colombia’s mangroves
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)26.05.19-
Biodiversity
It’s easy to get lost in the narrow channels of a mangrove forest. On either…
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)25.05.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…
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Vietnam can reduce emissions and save $2.3 billion with changes in agriculture and land usev
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)24.05.19Through cost-saving practices for coffee, rice, maize, and livestock production, Vietnam can increas…
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T20: Investments in irrigation and food system links can prevent food crises in Africa south of the Sahara
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food crises continue to plague the African continent, driven by conflict, climate change, and econo…
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ILRI annual report goes online
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)24.05.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI has published its annual report for 2018, and for the first time in its…
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Conference on Advances in Classical Breeding and Application of Modern Breeding Tools for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)24.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Plant breeding provides sustainable options to increase domestic food supply and dietary diversity i…
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Scaling up sustainable forestry projects key to attracting finance
CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry24.05.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Continuing this new interview series on inclusive landscape finance, we hear from the corporate sect…
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Reversing ‘dangerous decline’ of nature requires global initiatives to engage both men and women
CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry24.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Our planet is in the midst of an ecological emergency, according to several recent reports. Deter…
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