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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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UN-sponsored report acknowledges CIMMYT’s use of data and technologies to promote sustainable farming in Latin America
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)24.09.19-
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CIMMYT’s projects in Latin America feature in a new report that aims to help countries…
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Policy seminar: Doing more, doing better, and doing new on climate adaptation
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
With the Sept. 23 UN Climate Action Summit and other events—including the recent release of the …
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Improved soybean varieties increase farmer incomes by 53% – study shows
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)24.09.19Without a doubt, maize is the giant of all food crops in Malawi. However, most…
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Scientists show which genetic loci is associated with bunch weight in highland banana
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)24.09.19Scientists have, for the first time, located the position of major quantitative trait loci associate…
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ILRI researchers propose traceability system for Kenya’s smallholder pig value chain
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)24.09.19-
Health
A traceability system in the smallholder pig value chain in Kenya could help address challenges…
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Breaking news from the United Nations climate action summit…New York
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
CGIAR to get more than $650 Million to accelerate efforts to help 300 million smallholder…
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Immediate action needed to improve soil carbon sequestration: key messages for decision-makers
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Soil organic carbon (SOC) protection and sequestration in agriculture could contribute to the greenh…
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Fostering rural transformation under climate change: suggestions for the Global Commission on Adaptation
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
WAGENINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS (19 September 2019) – The people least responsible for greenhouse gas …
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The future of aquatic foods – including lab-grown “synthetic” fish – spurs new agreement between WorldFish and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
WorldFish24.09.19(Penang, Malaysia – 17thSept 2019) – The need to better understand the future of aquatic foods…
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Climate change is a youth issue
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Climate change ranks among the most important dynamics shaping livelihoods of young people now and…
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Large-scale genomics will improve the yield, climate-resilience, and quality of bread wheat, new study shows
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.09.19Using the full wheat genome map published in 2018, combined with data from field testing…
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Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researc…
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IFPRI at the African Association of Agricultural Economists conference
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)23.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Association of Agricultural Economists holds its 6th annual conference this week in Ab…
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Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)23.09.19-
Environmental health
A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researc…
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Climate smart agriculture: a winning strategy for farming families in El Niño seasons
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Approaching the homestead of Joseph Maravire and his wife, Reason, on a warm late August…
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A focus on gender is key to climate adaptation
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Fourth in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Genomics delivers ‘super chickpea’ in record time
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)20.09.19-
Nutrition
Two improved varieties developed through genomics-assisted breeding are headed for Indian farms Indi…
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IWMI’s wastewater aquaculture reuse project wins Sanitation Challenge for Ghana
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)20.09.19An aquaculture project that provides a win-win situation for agriculture and sanitation by raising c…
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