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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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Time to act on malnutrition in all its forms in West Africa
03.03.20-
Nutrition
This post, which originally appeared on Transform Nutrition West Africa, explores how West Africa is…
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Linking iron-biofortified beans and physical performance
03.03.20-
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Nutrition
Deficiency in key dietary micronutrients remains a significant nutrition problem in low- and middle-…
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Studying the potato’s water needs for more efficient irrigation
02.03.20Water is essential for food production, with farming accounting for about 70 percent of global…
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Agriculture in India's budget: Paying farmers keeps them poor
02.03.20-
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Gender equality
In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point ag…
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US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease
02.03.20-
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Nutrition
Graphic by the Aldas Project, 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated …
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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
02.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI Forage Genebank in Jan…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine-harvestable Chickpea
02.03.20Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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(Enteric methane) greenhouse gas emissions in cows are cut 25% with feed supplement (3-NOP)
01.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions…
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Tanzania’s traditional cooking banana yields more than expected!
28.02.20-
Food security
The yield potential of an important cooking banana in Tanzania, known as Mchare, has exceeded…
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Africa's litigated democracy
28.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On Feb. 12, the Malawi High Court upheld its original decision to nullify the country’s…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine harvestable chickpea
28.02.20-
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Health
Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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Youth Transitions in the drylands: gendered rights in land access and control
28.02.20In 2019, the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) initiated a…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
27.02.20-
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Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Viral flash points? Poor urban settlements are highly vulnerable to the risk of the new coronavirus
27.02.20-
Health
Scene in Nairobi’s low-income Kibera settlement (photo credit: David Orgel/Flickr). A new guest bl…
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