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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
14.05.25Amidst 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
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Knowledge + passion: Women’s recipe in millet and sorghum production in Mali
26.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two women’s associations in Sikasso, Mali are changing the status of pearl millet and sorghum,…
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Can cheap loans nudge milk and meat production back within the limits of the Amazon – and the Earth?
26.07.19-
Environmental health
This year, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 29, the earliest date yet, which tells…
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Atlas of Climate Change Impact on cocoa production in Central America and the Caribbean
25.07.19What could be the impact of climate change on cocoa in the Central America and…
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Timely, high-quality data are key for scaling up nutrition interventions
25.07.19-
Nutrition
To turn a commitment to scale up nutrition into reality, we need high-quality actionable data…
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Talking to farmers about the impact of CCAFS’ work
25.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
One of the first activities undertaken when the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agricultur…
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The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
24.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Poor diets are now the No. 1 risk factor in the global burden of disease (GBD), accounting…
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Terra-i user manual for monitoring land-cover changes is now available
24.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Terra-i, a project by CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) and Agroecosystems and Sustainabl…
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On farm: exploring the genetic diversity of RTB hotspots
24.07.19-
Biodiversity
This June, scientists from all over the world convened in the south of France for…
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Empowering Congolese women: IITA participates in UN Women’s conference
24.07.19As part of its interventions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), IITA participated in…
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Rooting out hunger in Malawi through better potato varieties
23.07.19Near the end of the last potato growing season in Malawi’s district of Dedza, Leonard…
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Policy seminar: Rohingyas displaced to Bangladesh face an uncertain future
23.07.19-
Gender equality
In 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into southeastern…
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India honors CIMMYT climate-smart farming expert
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
​The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) honored a cropping systems agronomist from the…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Taking a new and more comprehensive approach to quantify the impacts climate change will have…
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Climate change and rising population put pressure on essential crops in low-income regions
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Crops such as bananas, potatoes, and cassava are essential to food security in the world’s…
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The intersection between climate change, food, and migration
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Today, the global food system finds itself facing major challenges. Mainly, they relate to changing…
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New manual provides quantitative approach to drought stress phenotyping
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Since 1900, more than two billion people have been affected by drought worldwide, according to the…
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Digging deeper into gender and equity at ANH Academy Week
21.07.19-
Nutrition
At this year’s Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week held in Hyderabad, India in…
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Multi-location evaluation of six pigeonpea pre-breeding lines through India’s national program
19.07.19-
Food security
Developed at ICRISAT, these lines have been selected by the All India Coordinated Research Project…
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