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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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The COOL women of Malaita
09.07.19In the Solomon Islands, an archipelago of almost 1000 islands, fishing provides an income for…
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CIAT, CAAS establish Beijing joint lab and expand scientific cooperation
09.07.19In further strengthening scientific cooperation, CIAT and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Scienc…
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Regreening activities kick-off in Somalia
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Thousands of farmers are set to benefit from land restoration in the drought- and strife-stricken…
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New association formed to support smallholder native maize farmers in Mexico
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Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Expert Mexican scientists and farmer cooperatives have formed a non-profit organization to support s…
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Agricultural mechanization is a key input for the CIAT Rice and Bean Programs
08.07.19The adoption of farm mechanization in the agricultural production processes of crops, such as rice…
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Laying the foundation for fisheries research in Myanmar
08.07.19With most of its population residing in coastal areas and within the mega Delta of…
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Rice varietal cafeterias: An effective extension tool for promoting climate-resilient rice
08.07.19The rice varietal cafeteria provides a space where farmers and other stakeholders interact, discuss,…
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Celebrating World Zoonoses Day with a focus on ILRI’s research on zoonotic diseases
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Health
To celebrate World Zoonoses Day, marked annually on 6 July, we take a look at…
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The Seed of the Technology: ISTA conference generates interest in concerns of the drylands
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Discussions at the recently concluded congress of the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) …
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IRRI, CCAFS support the promotion of climate-smart rice production in Vietnam
05.07.19To mainstream climate change adaptation and mitigation in rice production, the National Agriculture …
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IRRI partners with social enterprise to incubate women’s producer company
05.07.19As a concerted effort to test various models of women’s entrepreneurship development in rice agri-…
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From smallholders to entrepreneurs, growing farmer resilience through Farmer Business Schools
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Gender equality
Rural Filipino farmers are reinventing themselves from smallholders to food-processing entrepreneurs…
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Sweetpotato jams and juices contribute to forest conservation in the Philippines
04.07.19The post Sweetpotato jams and juices contribute to forest conservation in the Philippines appeared f…
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Scaling out sustainable livestock production alternatives: financing schemes in the Colombian Amazon
04.07.19Peru and Colombia, countries harboring 23 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, are aware of…
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Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local level…
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United States and Mali launch five-year partnership for food security and livelihood resilience
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Written by Assoumane Maiga Beneficiary Aoussata Coulibaly (left) talks with the Malian minister of a…
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick receives Elinor Ostrom Award
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Gender equality
The 2019 Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons acknowledges Ruth Meinzen-Dickâ…
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IITA joins call for a global surveillance system to detect and halt the spread of crop disease
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Food security
A team of researchers has argued in Science that as nations collaborate to detect and stop human…
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