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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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Genomics delivers ‘super chickpea’ in record time
20.09.19-
Nutrition
Two improved varieties developed through genomics-assisted breeding are headed for Indian farms Indi…
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IWMI’s wastewater aquaculture reuse project wins Sanitation Challenge for Ghana
20.09.19An aquaculture project that provides a win-win situation for agriculture and sanitation by raising c…
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Regional Focus: Working towards healthy diets
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
IRRI's regional representative for South Asia, Nafees Meah, speaks with Geography and You to discuss…
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More equitable crop improvement
19.09.19-
Gender equality
Ensuring plant breeders can take women into account M9 is the code name of a…
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Special event: Nurul Islam on a lifetime in global development
19.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In his more than 60 years of work in international development, IFPRI Research Fellow Emeritus Nuru…
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The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
18.09.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of…
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Smallholder farmers’ multi-front strategy combats rapidly evolving wheat rust in Ethiopia
18.09.19-
Food security
New research shows that smallholder farmers in Ethiopia used various coping mechanisms apart from …
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Enhancing soil fauna richness and abundance in low-input systems: Examples from Kenya
17.09.19Over the years, many discussions on the benefits of conservation agriculture vis-à-vis conventional…
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Benefits of interconnectedness: How addressing climate change can foster sustainable land and food security
17.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Third in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Harnessing ICT to improve extension systems
17.09.19Extension services in Tunisia are outdated, under-resourced, and often fail to deliver new innovatio…
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Brochure: PIM Priorities for 2019–2021
16.09.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) works with research and impl…
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Policy seminar: Exploring a cash transfer program's impacts on malnutrition in war-torn Yemen
16.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The war in Yemen is an ongoing disaster for its people. Over 80% of the…
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IITA participates in TICAD 7 in Japan
13.09.19IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga participated in The Seventh Tokyo International Conference o…
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IITA working on Africa’s first genome edited banana
13.09.19The new frontier for agricultural innovation is genome editing and IITA is already leading the…
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Forage sorghum hybrid hailed as a landmark cultivar in India
13.09.19-
Food security
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Health
A new sorghum hybrid developed using ICRISAT breeding material was recently given special recognitio…
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Farmers’ demand for labor-friendly chickpea bears fruit: 2 more machine-harvestable varieties released in India
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
For the first time, the Central Varietal Release Committee (CVRC) of India has released two…
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Forage sorghum hybrid hailed as a landmark cultivar in India
13.09.19A new sorghum hybrid developed using ICRISAT breeding material was recently given special recognitio…
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Back from the brink of extinction
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
Long-term efforts to restore and conserve a collection of Israeli and Palestinian wheat landraces (I…
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