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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
WorldFish19.09.25Dr. 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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program09.07.25-
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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
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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Five (or six) solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)20.03.20We’ve heard a lot about ambitious tree planting initiatives in recent months. Laudable as these…
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Training and low-cost tech cut aflatoxin by 53 per cent
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)19.03.20-
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Aflatoxin exposure threatens food security throughout the developing world. Training and low-cost te…
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WHEAT carries on in the “new normal” of COVID-19
CGIAR Research Program on Wheat18.03.20-
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The CGIAR Research Program on Wheat and its lead center, the International Maize and Wheat…
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Turning off the tap, while tapping into inclusive institutions
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)18.03.20In Myanmar, limited groundwater resources must be used wisely to safeguard the livelihoods of thousa…
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Scaling vitamin A-rich sweetpotato in Africa
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)18.03.20-
Food security
A look back at more than 25 years of work shows how innovation at all…
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8 reads on how coronavirus could swing the battle against climate change
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)18.03.20-
Health
As entire countries go on lockdown, factories close and international air travel grinds to a hal…
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“Every Color in My Pencil Box”
International Potato Center (CIP)17.03.20Growing up in Assam, India, CIP researcher Sampriti Baruah remembers having potatoes with nearly eve…
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COVID-19’s impact on China’s small and medium-sized businesses
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)17.03.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Nov. 2019 in Hubei Province, China, business activity in the…
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BROKERING RESEARCH CRUCIAL FOR CLIMATE-PROOFING DRYLANDS
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)17.03.20Of the 12 interventions identified for agriculture by the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) in…
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Circular agriculture: A vision for sustainability
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)16.03.20-
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The future of food production is an urgent issue. Imagine that our ecosystems deteriorate to…
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Backing up crop biodiversity collections for agriculture’s future
International Potato Center (CIP)16.03.20The International Potato Center (CIP) recently joined 34 other organizations across the globe in dep…
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IITA BIP team sets new production per hectare record for yam farmers in Nigeria
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)16.03.20The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new record of 23 t/ha for yam productio…
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ICRISAT and local seed companies to build a seed industry for supply of high performing hybrids to small holder farmers
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)16.03.20Demand for sorghum and pearl millet as major food, feed and fodder crop continues to…
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Brokering research crucial for climate-proofing drylands
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)13.03.20-
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Of the 12 interventions identified for agriculture by the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) in…
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ICRISAT and local seed companies to build a seed industry for supply of high performing hybrids to small holder farmers
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)13.03.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Demand for sorghum and pearl millet as major food, feed and fodder crop continues…
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Tackling the root causes of gender inequality through research (Modern Ghana)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)13.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
By Clara Ceravolo, Ilaria Sisto, Lauren Whitehead, Matthew Walsham, Morane Verhoeven, and Shalini R…
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Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya’s future
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)13.03.20About 8.3 million people living in Kenya’s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically…
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Study finds high potential for sustainable intensification of agriculture in Asia, but important questions remain
International Potato Center (CIP)12.03.20A recent study published by International Potato Center scientists Marcel Gatto and Guy Hareau sugge…
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