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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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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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Guardian.ng: Valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in fast-rising streams
19.02.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
“For countries to progress, there is a need to invest in a supportive regulatory and…
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Avocados in Kenya: What’s holding back smallholder farmers
18.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya is the world’s third largest producer of avocados. It’s also Kenya’s leading fruit exp…
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Restoring Forests, Restoring Communities: Lessons from Shinyanga
18.02.20-
Environmental health
How secure resource rights help communities in Africa restore forests and build local economies “L…
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Inclusive business models: making aquaculture value chains work for the poor
18.02.20It is not always clear whether new trends in commercial growth in aquaculture are inclusive…
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Press Release: Project makes water from the sun for climate smart farming
18.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
World’s largest user of groundwater for agriculture looks to solar for a more sustainable future.…
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Harnessing the sweetpotato’s potential
17.02.20Sweetpotatoes can be grown on marginal land with few inputs, and orange-fleshed varieties can make…
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Second Biennial Review report highlights urgent need to accelerate progress toward achieving Malabo Declaration goals by 2025
17.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African leaders pledged to conduct a continent-wide Biennial Review…
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Spraying locust swarm is ineffective – IITA entomologist
17.02.20-
Food security
As Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya battle huge swarms of desert locusts, great efforts are underway…
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Planting trees or growing them. Do the words matter for restoring land?
17.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Every year, millions of dollars are spent on attempting to restore landscapes to health by…
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International Women’s Day 2020
17.02.20-
Gender equality
“ I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights” For IWD 2020, the CGIAR GENDER…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Feeding the future: Millet and sorghum grains make big gains in Mali
14.02.20-
Health
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Nutrition
USAID delegation visited Mali to see impacts from projects undertaken by three CGIAR institutions A…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
14.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A Seed Revolving Fund initiative for sorghum and groundnut value chains has been launched in…
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Breeding for Better Gender Equity
13.02.20-
Gender equality
A pilot study to validate tools that will help breeders to pay more attention to…
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Cavies are not rats! They’re a source of protein and income – study
13.02.20New research by scientists from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Wagen…
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Regional congress marks the end of the FoodSTART+ journey
13.02.20Roots and tubers (RTCs) are notably versatile crops with various uses in the agriculture and…
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This humble fly could change the way we deal with food waste
13.02.20Published as a WLE/IWMI Op-Ed in Globe Post A black soldier fly buzzes over a pile of food wast…
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How China can address threats to food and nutrition security from the coronavirus outbreak
12.02.20-
Food security
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Health
The current novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) outbreak originated from a seafood and wild foo…
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