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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-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Strengthening Public Breeding Pipelines by Emphasizing Quantitative Genetics Principles and Open Source Data Management
26.07.21-
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This opinion piece published in Frontiers in Plant Science briefly presents the breeder's equation a…
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“I see your point!” How data visualization and facilitating access to data can help stakeholders make more impactful decisions
15.07.21-
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How to tailor data visualization and evidence sharing for improved stakeholder uptake and applicatio…
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Identifying market segments and aligning breeding pipelines will focus CGIAR investments
05.07.21-
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There is an urgent need for public breeding programs to prioritize and focus their efforts.…
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AKILIMO digital platform improves potato yields in Rwanda
01.07.21-
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Potato yields are highly-dependent on fertilizer use but pinpointing the amount of fertilizer to b…
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Computer simulations are helping CGIAR breeders develop better varieties faster
30.06.21-
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In the past, plant breeding has helped avert entire famines by changing a handful of…
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New platform harnesses data – and unleashes breeders’ time
22.06.21-
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A bold new data management platform, the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), is helping breeders har…
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African breeding programs leap forward by accessing new genotyping data
09.06.21-
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With newly accessible genotyping technologies, African crop breeding programs have partnered with Ei…
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World Food Prize Laureate Shakuntala Thilsted urges UN Assembly to act on aquatic foods
08.06.21-
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WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, who was recently …
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Equitible digital tools can boost small-scale fisher livelihoods
08.06.21-
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While some specific applications of mobile technologies are well understood, their role in governanc…
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A view from above
25.05.21-
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Scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have been harnessing the…
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G+ Tools Provide a Clearer View to Crop Breeding
19.05.21-
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In this famous optical illusion, some people see a rabbit, while others see a duck.…
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Digital Technologies Keep Farmers Productive During COVID 19
14.05.21-
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The COVID 19 pandemic has made more clear than ever the need for and role…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
29.04.21-
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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New genotyping services launched across CGIAR and partners
14.04.21-
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CGIAR Excellence in Breeding has launched new low-cost, high throughput genotyping services, positio…
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Nepal launches digital soil map
07.04.21-
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A new digital soil map for Nepal provides access to location-specific information on soil properties…
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Revisiting the inverse size-productivity relationship
07.04.21-
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Quantifying agricultural productivity relies on measures of crop production and land area. Those mea…
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WorldFish opens Bangladesh’s first aquatic animal disease diagnostic lab
18.03.21-
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While aquaculture is a growing industry in Bangladesh, prevailing disease outbreaks in farmed fish a…
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Consider the seed
17.03.21-
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The conservation of plant genetic diversity through germplasm conservation is a key component…
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