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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
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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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IITA joins call for a global surveillance system to detect and halt the spread of crop disease
03.07.19-
Food security
A team of researchers has argued in Science that as nations collaborate to detect and stop human…
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De-risking agricultural value chains using climate-smart agriculture
03.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
In April 2019, professionals from the soft commodity sectors who represent diverse value chains acro…
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Understanding farmers’ willingness to pay for root, tuber and banana crop planting material
02.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Experimental auctions reveal the true willingness of farmers to pay (WTP) for various farming inputs…
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Rohingya in Bangladesh are surviving – but their long-term prospects are grim
02.07.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Note: Join us July 10 as the authors and other participants discuss their survey of…
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Making irrigation technology more affordable in Ethiopia
02.07.19-
Food security
“We will give due attention to the agricultural sector to bring about a fundamental change,…
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Considering Gender in Irrigation: Technology Adoption for Women Farmers
02.07.19-
Food security
Originally published on The Chicago Council on Global Affairs as part of the Uncharted Waters blog…
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Science is not negotiable: Reflections from the UN climate talks in Bonn
02.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Two things struck us the most in this year’s intersessional climate talks: Firstly, countries fail…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Women in wheat science
01.07.19Demand for wheat is predicted to increase 70% by the year 2050. As demand for…
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Experimental stations in Mexico improve global agriculture
01.07.19The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) operates five agricultural experiment …
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A day to remember: Scientists and processors exchange on the changes in the cassava value chain in Colombia over the past 20 years
01.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
With funding from the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Research Program (RTB), the International Center for…
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IITA Youth Agripreneurs program wins international award for youth empowerment innovations
01.07.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In recognition of its commitment to improving both agribusiness opportunities and creditworthiness o…
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When small is beautiful – but not spectacular
01.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Taking stock of a widespread water intervention in Africa. New study highlights the need for…
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Research approaches required for supporting the empowerment of pastoral dairy women
01.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Maasai woman feeding her child milk (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The especially rich and clearl…
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Reconciling food security, resource depletion and environmental quality trade-offs in India
28.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research, by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), delved into linkages…
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Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2003, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) designed a set of long-term trials…
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The world needs a global system to detect and halt the spread of emerging crop diseases
28.06.19In the same manner that nations collaborate to detect and stop human pandemics, a global…
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Conference: Challenges of eliminating child labor in agriculture and food chains
28.06.19-
Gender equality
Around the world, more than 70% of child labor is found in the agriculture sector—an…
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Long-standing partnership with Myanmar strengthened
28.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, has enhanced its partnership with ICRISAT for…
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