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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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Environmental health
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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 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
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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When pastures are not green in the eyes of the youth
06.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When you go to the Philippines’ Cordillera Administrative Region, your initial reaction might be t…
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Two animated shorts on practical steps to improve animal welfare and reduce drug resistance in poor countries
06.01.20-
Health
Start this new year (and decade) right. Watch these two little animated films for practical…
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Studying climate-smart agriculture in Vietnam
06.01.20The National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), in partnership with the CGIAR Research Progr…
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Focus on the political and commercial drivers behind the double burden of malnutrition
03.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
On Dec. 16, The Lancet published a new series of papers on The Double Burden of Malnutrition—th…
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A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers
03.01.20-
Environmental health
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Health
A massive capacity building initiative involving elaborate logistical arrangements covering all the …
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Growing for Gold: improving farming and fishing in Cambodia
03.01.20Thy and and her husband Chhub are rice and vegetable growers and small-scale fishers in…
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Biofortification: A plausible antidote to India's hidden hunger problem
02.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A dip in India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has rightly created a stir in…
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Double duty actions in nutrition: Preventing harm and maximizing impacts on all forms of malnutrition
02.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Traditionally, the term “malnutrition” has been applied to problems such as micronutrient defici…
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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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How climate finance and technology could better integrate women
30.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Amid frustrated negotiations around Article 6 guidance on emissions counting and carbon markets, U…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
30.12.19Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Happy New Year! Here’s a baker’s dozen of ILRI’s top livestock communications in 2019
30.12.19A baker’s dozen of our favourite communications in 2019 are listed and linked to below,…
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Farmer Business Schools can help make smallholder agriculture a profitable enterprise
27.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
The idea of doubling Indian farmers’ incomes by 2022, when the country completes 75 years…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
27.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Setting the stage for hybrid pearl millet research consortium in West Africa
23.12.19Exciting times ahead as public and private institutions come together to promote millets Seed resear…
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Groundnut breeding program in Burkina Faso gets a boost with seven new improved groundnut varieties
23.12.19More than 20 years after the last groundnut seed variety was registered in the seed…
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Reducing climate change induced water stress through the Convergence Initiative
20.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The impacts of climate change, such as erratic rainfall and changing river runoff, made the…
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New study develops forecasting tools for better detection and control of dengue in Vietnam
19.12.19-
Health
A new article published in the journal PLOS ONE (27 Nov 2019) reports on the…
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