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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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CIAT Africa and CSAYN Kenya sign agreement to support young “agripreneurs”
31.05.19To expand its support for young agricultural entrepreneurs, or “agripreneurs,” and to help culti…
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31.05.19A recent study shows the slow adoption of conservation agriculture practices in sub-Saharan Africa,…
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Forests rise as climate solutions in Asia and the Pacific
31.05.19The land use sector is crucial to confronting climate change, with forests providing the single…
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Strengthening ties to secure farm livelihoods in Niger
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Niger is among the youngest nations in the world with two-thirds of its population under…
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Firewood for income in a degrading landscape
31.05.19Ghana - Part V of VI-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S…
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India’s first ‘high oleic’ groundnut varieties ready to go commercial
30.05.19-
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Will serve up healthier oil with longer shelf life After eight years of collaborative work,…
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HarvestPlus welcomes new UK commitment to support biofortification
30.05.19-
Nutrition
On May 23, HarvestPlus announced a major new commitment by the government of the United Kingdom to…
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Shifting to a demand-led maize improvement agenda
29.05.19Partners of the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) project held their annual meeting May…
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CIP bestows scientist emeritus status on three outstanding researchers
29.05.19The post CIP bestows scientist emeritus status on three outstanding researchers appeared first on In…
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Breaking Ground: Mechanization expert Jelle Van Loon goes as far as creativity allows
29.05.19“First and foremost I’m an agricultural engineer; I just happen to have a high affinity…
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Principles, practice, and the private sector’s role in malnutrition: Time to review red lines?
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Nutrition
The framing of malnutrition as a global problem that affects us all is long overdue.…
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Cameroon forest superfood scores best for women’s health
29.05.19Cameroon - When Caleb Yengo Tata travelled to the remote Takamanda rainforest region in southwest…
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Imagining challenging climate futures
29.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
This post was originally published on Ojo Al Clima (in Spanish) It has already happened to…
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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…
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Colombia could lose 60% of land suitable for irrigated rice due to climate change
28.05.19Unchecked emissions will reduce land suitable for rice in Colombia, underscoring how geography limit…
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To transform the global food system and feed the world sustainably, start at the local level
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In a recent meeting with a developing country policy maker, I was asked which among…
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Banana improvement project team meets to take stock, track progress and plan
27.05.19-
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An international team of researchers that is revolutionizing banana breeding in Eastern Africa are t…
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In China, the largest bamboo structure of its kind proclaims the plant’s future
27.05.19With its graceful arches blanketed by a landscape garden and reflected in the shimmering pond…
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