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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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Environmental health
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Food security
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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Nyando Climate-Smart Village launches community seedbank
07.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Farmers from across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania traveled from their agricultural fields to Nyando in…
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India establishes separate ministerial livestock portfolio, a sector outperforming crop agriculture
05.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
All illustrations by Bengali artist Jamini Roy, 1887–1972. ‘The creation of a separate ministeri…
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Make food a priority in land reforms
04.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
While land titles and other reforms in forest-dwelling communities in Indonesia, Uganda and Peru hav…
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Voices from the field: Fighting aflatoxin in Nigeria
04.10.19-
Health
Aflatoxin cause health and economic problems for farmers across Africa. IITA scientist Adebowale Aka…
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Incorporating prevention into community-based management of acute malnutrition: Insights from Mali and Burkina Faso
04.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Globally, 52 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. Children with moderate acute malnutrit…
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Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were…
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Steering the seed revolving fund initiative to meet growing farmers’ demand for certified seed
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Health
Adoption of new varieties can never be successful until efficient seed delivery systems are in…
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Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
04.10.19-
Food security
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were…
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Steering the seed revolving fund initiative to meet growing farmers’ demand for certified seed
04.10.19-
Food security
Adoption of new varieties can never be successful until efficient seed delivery systems are in…
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Crunching IFPRI data to build research capacity in Papua New Guinea
03.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
One of IFPRI’s most important pillars is capacity building, which includes training students and g…
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Closing the gap: women-focused initiative empowers farmers in Odisha
03.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Women farmers make up a sizeable part of rice production, but they have less opportunities…
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Climate mitigation can support growth in developing countries
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Climate change is already upon us. Proliferating and intensifying natural disasters, soaring numbers…
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Enlarging on the EAT-Lancet planetary diet report—A fresh look by CSIRO’s Mario Herrero, one of the authors
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Mario Herrero, a scientist formerly with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and n…
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Conference highlights need for increased climate funding for rice agri-food systems
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
A global conference is calling for more investment in climate change initiatives for the world’s…
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Informal traders in Africa’s cities: Coopted, coerced or just neglected?
01.10.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early 2018, as Zambia’s capital of Lusaka faced a widening cholera epidemic, the country’s…
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Disaster Risk Reduction Hub For Koshi River To Be Developed
01.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A recent UNESCAP disaster risk-focused report has identified transboundary river basins in South Asi…
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Breaking silos in disaster management
01.10.19Originally published as an Op-Ed on Down to Earth. Historically, the agriculture and disaster-manag…
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Informal traders in African cities are being used as political pawns
30.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What’s needed to ensure that informal traders are handled fairly and humanely rather than being…
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