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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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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-
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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
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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Reducing intimate partner violence through cash transfers: The next research frontier
09.04.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cash transfers are promising interventions to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but more evide…
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IRRI, WorldFish, and IWMI commit to a food systems transformation in South and Southeast Asia
09.04.19-
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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), WorldFish, and the International Water Management …
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Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies
08.04.19-
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Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow…
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“Communicate” the theme of the Annual Meeting of Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System project held at IITA
05.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The meeting which was themed “Communicate” and facilitated by Sue Davison, Director of Pipal Lim…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
05.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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Breaking barriers for climate-smart crop adoption in Kenya
05.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
05.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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Well-meaning tenure reforms can’t quash land conflicts
04.04.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When countries revise their land and forest tenure laws, whereby rights are granted to people…
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Catalyzing partnerships for reforestation of degraded land
04.04.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this second edition of the “Innovative finance for sustainable landscapes” interview series, …
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How the data revolution could help design better agronomic investments
02.04.19-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What fertilizer application will give me the best returns? What maize crop variety should I…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
02.04.19-
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This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Agreement on multi-country seed-sharing reached
02.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (9–10 June 2017) - Two more countries have joined a regional seed…
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Ask the innovators: Which agricultural practices work best locally?
01.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new study by Bioversity International explores the power of ‘positive deviance’ in Tanzania. B…
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IRRI-IAARD to accelerate impact delivery with new rice research hub
01.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
01 April, 2018 – BOGOR, INDONESIA - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Direct…
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Chapatis of pearl millet for a changing climate
29.03.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
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The people of rural India love their bajra chapatis. These flatbreads made of pearl millet flour a…
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Climate-smart technologies to build resilience in agriculture of Niger, Mali
29.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Two projects were recently launched to adopt climate-smart agricultural technologies in Niger and Ma…
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Can DRC’s community forests lift people out of poverty?
29.03.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the quest to reduce poverty, community forestry is an attractive endeavor. So much so…
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Scaling Triple S through collaborating with Damongo Agricultural College, Ghana
28.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In July 2018 Issahaq Suleman, CIP’s Triple S scaling champion in Ghana, paid a visit…
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