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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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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Open data to boost Groundnut breeding initiatives: a testimony by Dr. Janila Pasupuleti
07.03.20Groundnut is among the key grain legumes playing a vital role in enhancing human nutrition…
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IITA-BIP sets record for maize production per hectare in Nigeria
07.03.20-
Food security
The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new production record for maize in Nige…
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How wasps are used to control the destructive cowpea pest—Maruca vitrata
07.03.20-
Health
Maruca vitrata, also known as Maruca pod borer, is one of the most devastating insect…
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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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Celebrating the ‘WILD’ (‘Women In Livestock Development’) at ILRI on International Women’s Day—Video
06.03.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Check out this video short highlighting women working at the International Livestock Research Instit…
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Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality
06.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Zoë Campbell The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘I Am Generation…
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Towards equality for women and men in root and tuber agri-food systems
06.03.20-
Gender equality
UN Women notes that 2020 represents a crucial opportunity to mobilize global action to achieve gend…
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New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people
06.03.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…
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Partnering to scale big data from small-scale fisheries
06.03.20Our communications team sat down with Alex Tilley, scientist at WorldFish, and Dave Solomon, CEO…
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
06.03.20"An encounter thirty years ago in rural Costa Rica stays with me to this day.…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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Delivering equality means systems change, say IWMI experts
06.03.20-
Gender equality
On International Women’s Day, Deepa Joshi shares a lesson from South Africa to demonstrate why …
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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Weathering the storm or storming the norms: Can climate-smart agriculture produce gender equality?
06.03.20As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on…
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Root and tuber crops have a central role to play in building resilience in Asian agri-food systems
05.03.20As developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and its impact on agriculture…
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Coronavirus Threat Looms Large for Low-Income Cities
05.03.20-
Health
In our increasingly interconnected world, outbreaks of infectious diseases – such as Ebola, SARS a…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
05.03.20-
Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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