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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
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Big data
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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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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Government of Zimbabwe recognizes CIMMYT for beneficial collaborations
16.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The best results in combating pests and diseases exacerbated by climate change and protecting agricu…
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El BID y el CGIAR dialogan sobre la importancia de fortalecer los sistemas agroalimentarios en América Latina y el Caribe
15.02.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Dirección Regional para América Latina y el Caribe del CGIAR, en colaboración con el Centro…
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