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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 SystemsÂ
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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Chinese livestock farms struggle under COVID-19 restrictions
26.03.20-
Food security
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Health
After the COVID-19 outbreak began in December in Hubei Province, many Chinese villages were locked…
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ICARDA’s Mustapha El-Bouhssini explains how crop pests are moving in a warming world
26.03.20Insect resistance in plants is needed now more than ever. The UN, which has named…
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Moving from water problems to water solutions in a climate-challenged world
26.03.20Originally published on Rural 21. The beginning of life on Earth has been linked to water.…
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IITA launches IYPH website
26.03.20By now, we know that 2020 is the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). Throughout…
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Shared responsibilities and equal economic benefits
25.03.20-
Gender equality
Women play a crucial role in Ethiopian agriculture. A significant portion of their time is…
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Reflections on Uganda’s seed systems: building opportunities and addressing constraints
25.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
A blog by the RTB seed system research cluster to reflect on lessons from field…
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Whole grains
25.03.20-
Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Breaking Ground: Aparna Das leads efficient and demand-driven maize research
25.03.20Getting a good maize harvest, or just enough to feed the family, has always been…
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Vaccines against this year’s novel (and world-changing) coronavirus are already in development and being tested—Good news from Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty
25.03.20-
Health
Positive news! While some COVID-19 surges are now ‘baked-in’, and we must prepare ourselves for…
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Ugandan teacher walks 664 km to raise awareness of shea trees: ‘My worry is extinction’
25.03.20Arriving in Nairobi on 2 March, Gerima Mustapha, 47, emerged out of the driving rain…
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Water for all – making SDG 6 a reality
25.03.20"Water for all" is an important concept embedded in Sustainable Development Goal 6 on Water…
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In the Spotlight: Rose Komugisha Basiita
25.03.20Rose Komugisha Basiita is a WorldFish scientist conducting research in aquaculture and fish genetics…
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Livestock route mapping for improved health of humans, animals and the environment
25.03.20-
Health
The International Livestock Research Institute is working on two new research projects in rangeland …
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A risky water future for Nepal
24.03.20First detailed climate assessment for Western Nepal predicts water risks on supplies, farmers and co…
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COVID-19-measures, daily laborers and their nutrition│Analysis by Michael Hauser
24.03.20-
Food security
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Health
Containing COVID-19 is indispensable. But without social safety nets, the effects on daily laborer…
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Barren shelves: COVID-19 and panic buying of food │ Analysis by Michael Hauser
24.03.20-
Food security
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Health
People rush to supermarkets and buy what they can carry. Comprehensible, but unnecessary. To cut…
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Papua mangroves could help Indonesia coast to climate targets
23.03.20Indonesia - The characteristics of mangroves in a range of ecosystems – from undisturbed natural…
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Why measuring youths’ aspirations is key to sustainable and inclusive rural development
23.03.20The first results of the Kenyan census conducted in 2019 reveal a gradual demographic transition t…
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