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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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Are we reducing hunger in the world?
17.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
It is now clear that the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development…
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What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests
17.04.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A quarter of a century ago, Cameroon passed a law which gave people living on…
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The research-practitioner divide: Why we are still optimistic
16.04.19-
Food security
Researchers and development practitioners don’t often team up to co-lead large global projects for…
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Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas
16.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agricultural…
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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
16.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…
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Memorandum of Understanding marks invigorated partnership for CGIAR and Republic of Korea
16.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CGIAR and the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of Korea, have signed a…
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Emerging scientist: Surendran Rajaratnam
15.04.19-
Gender equality
Understanding why people do what they do and what they can do differently to improve…
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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
15.04.19-
Big data
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Food security
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Nutrition
Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
15.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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French delegation explores agribusiness collaboration with IITA Abuja
13.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IITA, the French Embassy in Nigeria, and the French Agriculture Research Centre for International …
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IFPRI Signs MoU with Indonesia’s Ministry of Planning
12.04.19-
Food security
April 12, 2019, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and th…
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A Homecoming for Rice
12.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Cote d’Ivoire. But first,…
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2019 Global Food Policy Report Malawi launch: Reforming agriculture for rural revitalization
12.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Rural people around the world continue to struggle with food insecurity, persistent poverty and ineq…
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The stories of ‘sorghum’ Agatha and ‘seed’ Mary
12.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Why linking with the private sector is important for the AVISA project Passion can be…
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Giving youth roots and wings for a better agricultural future in Kenya
12.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Programs provide income-generation opportunities for young Kenyan farmers From equipping young women…
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An Innovative messaging tool helps South India’s groundnut farmers post impressive yields
12.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An advisory tool, scalable for any number of farmers, has shown immense potential in facilitating…
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"It is no longer a question of why we are incorporating gender, but really a question of how." - WLE/IWMI at Seeds of Change
12.04.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
“What kinds of seeds are we sowing? What kind of change are we anticipating? And…
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A roadmap to guide regreening in Mali
11.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Government, researchers and development agencies are creating a roadmap for restoration in Mali to e…
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