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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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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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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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2020 the Year of #Water4Climate
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
This year’s World Water Day focuses on water and climate change – and how the…
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COVID-19 is a deadly reminder that inclusive water supply and sanitation matters for all of us
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Since the COVID-19 crisis escalated, we have been reminded daily that one of the most…
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An Alliance for Trees: Why forest biodiversity is "too precious to lose"
20.03.20From forest fires to COVID-19, this year has already presented grave challenges to human and planet…
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Nutrition, gender and breeding modernization: Focal points of West and Central Africa research agenda
20.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The spotlight was on biofortification, gender equity and breeding program modernization at the recen…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
20.03.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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Five (or six) solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes
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
19.03.20-
Health
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
18.03.20-
Health
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
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
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
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”
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
17.03.20-
Health
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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
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
16.03.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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
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
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
16.03.20Demand for sorghum and pearl millet as major food, feed and fodder crop continues to…
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