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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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Scaling up the use of Orange Fleshed Puree for Baked and Fried Products
27.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
In late May the International Potato Centre (CIP) organized a stakeholder engagement and launch meet…
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An in-depth look at ICRISAT’s engagement in West Africa
27.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Governing Board meeting in Senegal: The strategic plan for 2020 and beyond As members of…
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A tipping point for climate action in food systems? Reflections from the UN Climate Action Summit and Climate Week NYC
27.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
This week’s United Nations (UN) Climate Action Summit convened by the UN Secretary General, and…
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How do we estimate the consequences of global inaction on genetic diversity conservation, exchange, and use?
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
Target 2.5 of the SDGs calls for maintaining “the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants…
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How do we estimate the consequences of global inaction on genetic diversity conservation, exchange, and use?
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for maintaining “the genetic diversi…
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Scientists propose a low-cost, reliable system to measure soil organic carbon
26.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research by an international team of scientists, including International Maize and Wheat Improve…
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An urgent need to put forests on the global agenda
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Open letter From Marc Palahí, Director EFI, Robert Nasi, Director General CIFOR and Tony Simons,…
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Fish micronutrients ‘slipping through the hands’ of malnourished people
26.09.19-
Nutrition
New research published reveals the potential of marine fisheries to help tackle nutrient deficiencie…
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Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Neth…
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ILRI knowledge management recognized internationally
25.09.19Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, received the Knowledge Management Award from A…
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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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Programs need to focus on the double burden of malnutrition: Evidence from Guatemala
25.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Most countries, at all levels of development and in all regions of the world, today…
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UN-sponsored report acknowledges CIMMYT’s use of data and technologies to promote sustainable farming in Latin America
24.09.19-
Big data
CIMMYT’s projects in Latin America feature in a new report that aims to help countries…
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Policy seminar: Doing more, doing better, and doing new on climate adaptation
24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
With the Sept. 23 UN Climate Action Summit and other events—including the recent release of the …
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Improved soybean varieties increase farmer incomes by 53% – study shows
24.09.19Without a doubt, maize is the giant of all food crops in Malawi. However, most…
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Scientists show which genetic loci is associated with bunch weight in highland banana
24.09.19Scientists have, for the first time, located the position of major quantitative trait loci associate…
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ILRI researchers propose traceability system for Kenya’s smallholder pig value chain
24.09.19-
Health
A traceability system in the smallholder pig value chain in Kenya could help address challenges…
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Breaking news from the United Nations climate action summit…New York
24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
CGIAR to get more than $650 Million to accelerate efforts to help 300 million smallholder…
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