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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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More than a bank: Reflections on the history of the Inter-American Development Bank
09.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
First of two parts. In 2019 the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) celebrated the 60th annive…
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On this International Women’s Day 2020, ILRI commits to strengthening women’s rights in livestock systems and enterprises
07.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) i…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality
06.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Zoë Campbell The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘I Am Generation…
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Towards equality for women and men in root and tuber agri-food systems
06.03.20-
Gender equality
UN Women notes that 2020 represents a crucial opportunity to mobilize global action to achieve gend…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christie…
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Delivering equality means systems change, say IWMI experts
06.03.20-
Gender equality
On International Women’s Day, Deepa Joshi shares a lesson from South Africa to demonstrate why …
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
05.03.20-
Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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Agriculture in India's budget: Paying farmers keeps them poor
02.03.20-
Food security
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In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point ag…
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Africa's litigated democracy
28.02.20-
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On Feb. 12, the Malawi High Court upheld its original decision to nullify the country’s…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
26.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
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Avocados in Kenya: What’s holding back smallholder farmers
18.02.20-
Food security
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Kenya is the world’s third largest producer of avocados. It’s also Kenya’s leading fruit exp…
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International Women’s Day 2020
17.02.20-
Gender equality
“ I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights” For IWD 2020, the CGIAR GENDER…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
14.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A Seed Revolving Fund initiative for sorghum and groundnut value chains has been launched in…
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Breeding for Better Gender Equity
13.02.20-
Gender equality
A pilot study to validate tools that will help breeders to pay more attention to…
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Projects funded by Germany make a difference to people, trees, ecology
12.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Grants from BMZ enrich and push boundaries at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Each year, seeking ‘innov…
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