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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program09.07.25-
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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
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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Four questions with CIMMYT’s Maize Genebank Curator
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)22.05.21-
Biodiversity
Seeds are a cornerstone of food security. That is why the maize and wheat genebanks…
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A conservation conversation
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)21.05.21-
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Germplasm banks around the world are protectors of genetic diversity, altogether preserving roughly …
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AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping for Ethiopian and Uzbek Women
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)20.05.21-
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Beekeeping has long been a traditional pursuit in Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, where smallholders…
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The Pollination Services of Forests
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)20.05.21-
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Since they are a vital part of the reproduction process of many plants, a decline…
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Boosting Malawi’s aquaculture production for food security
WorldFish18.05.21-
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Although Malawi has an extensive history of fish farming spanning a century, the nation’s smallhol…
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From the field: climate-smart agriculture in Zimbabwe
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)18.05.21-
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Watch the video and read more about the Alliance’s ongoing work to increase farmers’ resilience…
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Working to make gender research actionable in Honduras
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)18.05.21-
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Given the challenge of making gender approaches and concepts actionable, especially the concept of w…
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Historical dietary shifts offer lessons for future transitions in food systems
WorldFish17.05.21-
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While the movement to transform food systems is gaining momentum, the avenues for doing so…
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Aquatic foods are essential for sustainable healthy diets, says UN Nutrition
WorldFish17.05.21-
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Aquatic foods are key to transforming global food systems in support of sustainable and healthy…
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Water and cross-sectoral collaboration are key to food system transformations
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)14.05.21-
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At a series of dialogues convened as part of the UNFSS preparatory process, experts argued…
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Solar for all: Enhancing access to affordable and sustainable solar-powered irrigation
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)08.05.21-
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Around 2 billion people globally are food insecure. Yet strategies to reduce chronic hunger and…
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Community participation: greening the Aba Gerima watershed in Ethiopia
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)05.05.21-
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The rolling plains of the Aba Gerima watershed cover the upper portion of Lake Tana…
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Co-creating a Theory of Change for the Genebank Initiative
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)03.05.21-
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A new online process that enabled the Initiative Design Team (IDT) with a large group…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
WorldFish29.04.21-
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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New project to recharge aquifers and cut water use in agriculture by 30 percent
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.04.21-
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The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) announced a new three-year public–pr…
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Earth Day 2021: Restoring agriculture to transform food systems
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)22.04.21-
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BY CLAUDIA RINGLER COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated o…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)22.04.21-
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Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security – …
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Restoring agriculture to transform food systems
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)22.04.21-
Environmental health
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COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated online last year,…
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