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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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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-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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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CIMMYT at AIM for Climate Summit
19.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
With the harmful effects of climate change, including drought and extreme temperatures moving from t…
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CIMMYT at AIM for Climate Summit
19.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
With the harmful effects of climate change, including drought and extreme temperatures moving from t…
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A promising partnership
17.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In August 2022, the arrival of a container ship at the port in Cotonou, Benin…
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Hot, dry climates call for resilient, high-performing wheat varieties
09.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Public and private crop research organizations worldwide have worked behind the scenes for decades, …
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Global science partnership promotes climate-smart pathways to address food security and climate crisis
08.05.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Through decades-long Asian and global partnerships, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Ce…
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The status of women in agri-food systems
08.05.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
To provide a comprehensive overview of women and gender issues in agriculture, the Food and…
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CIMMYT endorses and implements expert recommendations to drive the transformation towards Zero Hunger by 2050
31.03.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Leading scientists, practitioners and representatives of development agencies, and international and…
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Rapid modern wheat variety adoption key to supply chain security in Malawi
27.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are helping to scale up…
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Ethiopian machines for Ethiopian farmers
23.03.23In many sub-Saharan countries, including Ethiopia, smallholder farmers of legume, wheat, and maize s…
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2023 Women In Triticum (WIT) Award Winners Announced
22.03.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is pleased to announce the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube…
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A seed systems success story
21.03.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Stewards Global, trading as Afriseed, is a Zambia seed systems intervention success story. Thanks to…
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Strengthening partnerships with government and private sector in Malawi
17.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Goal 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals calls to “Strengthen the means of…
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Scaling impact of dryland crops research through regional crop improvement networks
09.03.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The formation of regional crop improvement networks took center stage at a meeting held in…
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One year of Women in Crop Science at CIMMYT
07.03.23-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
To mark International Women’s Day 2023, Nele Verhulst, cropping systems agronomist at the Internat…
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KALRO research station at Kiboko revamped to accelerate crop breeding
03.03.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)’s research station at Kiboko, Kenya…
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Building towards a climate-smart agriculture future through harnessing crop modeling
24.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Anticipating appropriate and timely responses to climate variability and change from an agricultural…
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Farmers in Buhera gear up for climate-smart agriculture
21.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As climate change effects intensify, new innovations that enable smallholder farmers to adapt are no…
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A deceptively simple hack boosts wheat yields in Bihar
17.02.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As a warming planet desiccates crops around the world, threatening livelihoods and nutrition, farmer…
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