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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
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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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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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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WorldFish Workshop: Small Fish for Nutrition
15.11.19On 3 December 2019, WorldFish Cambodia will be organizing Small Fish for Nutrition Final Workshop…
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How do you provide healthy, sustainable food for world of the future?
14.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
New partnership with global agriculture research giant to focus on tackling challenge of health, env…
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How do earthquakes shape economic behavior?
14.11.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The economic cost of natural disasters is usually expressed in physical terms: Destruction of assets…
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Towards a sustainable ocean economy: An interview with Norway’s Minister of Fisheries and Seafood, Harald T Nesvik.
14.11.19At the Our Ocean 2019 conference in Norway, recently, Tana Lala-Pritchard, Director, Communic…
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Policy seminar: What made Malawi’s community childcare centers successful platforms for an agriculture and nutrition program
13.11.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Community-based early childhood development centers have long provided affordable, quality care for …
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Policy transformation for achieving the SDGs: Can translational research help?
12.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will take major transformations of the …
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Why tree diversity in agroforestry matters: perspectives from the Comoros archipelago
12.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The island of Anjouan in the Comoros has experienced one of the highest deforestation rates…
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From Knowledge to Income – Martha Lawrance is recognised as a leading sweetpotato vine multiplier
11.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Martha Lawrance is a 49-year-old woman from the Chogsia, Wa West District of the Upper…
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Consolidated efforts to modernize crop improvement in Ghana
11.11.19-
Food security
A Regional Coordinated Trial (RCT) is helping Cowpea Improvement Program in Ghana, thanks to Acceler…
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New challenges for women’s land rights in Africa
11.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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Laying the ground for drone-based technologies to support development of climate-ready crops
11.11.19-
Food security
Globally, agriculture is witnessing significant technological advancement, best exemplified by the A…
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Trees in the mist: domesticating local forest trees to restore the Comoros archipelago
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Forming a part of the Madagascar and Indian Ocean biodiversity hotspot is the island of…
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ICRAF and FTA host first technical discussion on the development of a gender-responsive post-2020 global biodiversity framework
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
The unprecedented and accelerating loss of biodiversity is one of the greatest crises of our tim…
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New study identifies factors affecting spread of brucellosis in humans and livestock in northeastern Kenya
11.11.19-
Health
Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease that affects wildlife and livestock. A study carried ou…
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Consolidated efforts to modernize crop improvement in Ghana
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A Regional Coordinated Trial (RCT) is helping Cowpea Improvement Program in Ghana, thanks to Acceler…
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Spotlight on crop diversity as ICRISAT’s Genebank holds inaugural field day
11.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Cutting across disciplines of crop research, scientists gathered at ICRISAT to observe and evaluate …
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ILRI holds a livestock symposium at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference this week
10.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The International Tropical Agriculture Conference, TropAg2019, is being held next week in Brisbane, …
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Putting people at the heart of agriculture
08.11.19Agricultural interventions that fail to address people’s needs and interests are not just a betray…
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