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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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ICT2Scale demonstrates the vital importance of ICT tools for dryland farmers
02.12.21-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To fill gaps in essential data informing decisions at the farm level, the ICT2Scale…
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Big Data and Agricultural Research: Results of Online Survey
16.11.21-
Big data
The digital revolution has changed the ways of working, accessing information, and connecting with e…
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Panel data takes partnership and patience: first field visit of the Uganda National Panel Survey
15.11.21-
Big data
Even the best-laid plans have had to be revisited, revised, postponed, or cancelled as a…
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Beans, Beans, and the Power of Genes
22.10.21-
Big data
by Steve Beebe Agriculture is one of the key foundations of human society. Agriculture has…
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National breeding institutes deliver initial program costing at in-person training course
07.10.21-
Big data
A new costing tool is helping national breeding programs get the financial data needed to impr…
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Preventing and protecting against wheat blast
10.08.21-
Big data
Every year, the spores of the wheat blast fungus lie in wait on farms in…
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Can you help shape the future of plant disease detection?
09.08.21-
Big data
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are increasingly being applied across a diver…
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New App brings Commodity Prices at Farmers' Fingertips
02.08.21-
Big data
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mon, 08/02/2021 “Kolfa” is a brand-new app which provides commodity price information to Tunisia…
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Strengthening Public Breeding Pipelines by Emphasizing Quantitative Genetics Principles and Open Source Data Management
26.07.21-
Big data
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Food security
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-
Big data
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Environmental health
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-
Big data
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Food security
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-
Big data
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-
Big data
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Food security
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-
Big data
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-
Big data
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Food security
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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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Big data
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Big data
Scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have been harnessing the…
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