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International Potato Center (CIP)

Partners of the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) project held their annual meeting May…

CIP bestows scientist emeritus status on three outstanding researchers

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

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Breaking Ground: Mechanization expert Jelle Van Loon goes as far as creativity allows

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

“First and foremost I’m an agricultural engineer; I just happen to have a high affinity…

Principles, practice, and the private sector’s role in malnutrition: Time to review red lines?

Nutrition

The framing of malnutrition as a global problem that affects us all is long overdue.…

Cameroon forest superfood scores best for women’s health

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

Cameroon - When Caleb Yengo Tata travelled to the remote Takamanda rainforest region in southwest…

Imagining challenging climate futures

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

This post was originally published on Ojo Al Clima (in Spanish) It has already happened to…

Rebuttal letter sets the record straight on crop breeding for climate change resilience

28.05.19

Climate adaptation & mitigation

In early 2019, an article published by European climate researchers in the Proceedings of the Nat…

Colombia could lose 60% of land suitable for irrigated rice due to climate change

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

28.05.19

Unchecked emissions will reduce land suitable for rice in Colombia, underscoring how geography limit…

To transform the global food system and feed the world sustainably, start at the local level

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

28.05.19

Food security

In a recent meeting with a developing country policy maker, I was asked which among…

Banana improvement project team meets to take stock, track progress and plan

CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Food security
Nutrition

An international team of researchers that is revolutionizing banana breeding in Eastern Africa are t…

In China, the largest bamboo structure of its kind proclaims the plant’s future

With its graceful arches blanketed by a landscape garden and reflected in the shimmering pond…

Restore Indigenous land rights to unlock traditional knowledge and repair ecosystems

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Despite general acceptance by scientists, governments and investors that traditional knowledge is as…

Niger Minister meets India’s senior agriculture officials

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

To strengthen ties between Niger and India in areas of agriculture, Mr Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, Mini…

SRFSI: The West Bengal story

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

In India’s state of West Bengal, the success of men and women farmers and agri-entrepreneurs…

Water diverting weir structure in Chifra, Afar, Ethiopia.

Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource

Food security

Increasing production in agriculture is often a very long and arduous process. Agronomists, soil sci…

Why Apple is investing in Colombia’s mangroves