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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
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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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Genetic markers identify the sex of yams and accelerate breeding
23.10.18Researchers have identified the genetic markers that distinguish the sex of yam plants, saving time…
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Strengthening farmers' seed systems in China
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Dr. Yiching Song, Senior Researcher at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy o…
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Connecting the dots for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions in agriculture
23.10.18-
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As part of the Paris Agreement, countries that have signed on have pledged to reduce…
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An agri-food revolution for tropical root and tuber crops
22.10.18-
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“When, where and how will tropical root and tuber crops lead to the next agri-food…
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‘Merry-go-round’ groups spin Kenyan women farmers to success
22.10.18-
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Last month’s report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change highlights wor…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Blue maize opportunities for Mexican farmers
22.10.18-
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Blue maize is a ubiquitous aspect of Mexico’s food culture, especially in the central highlands.…
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Policy seminar: Past, present, and future of the commons
22.10.18-
Environmental health
There is a long history of common property, which we can define as resources held…
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Protecting African fish and fisheries: PAFFA delegates call for action
22.10.18To secure the diverse and distributed values of Africa’s fisheries, innovations are needed along t…
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The future of social protection in Africa
19.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Within more empowered segments of the poor population in African societies, demand for social protec…
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Discussion paper: What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda
18.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the princi…
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Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton: Learning new ways to maintain and use valuable resources
18.10.18-
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A look back at the career of the retiring Head of the T.T. Chang Genetic…
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Walking the talk: taking climate-smart agriculture to scale
18.10.18Green GB Week (15-19 October), a new initiative in the UK this year, comes just…
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In the press: Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
17.10.18-
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Thomson Reuters News Foundation published an op-ed Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Ini…
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Giving water a second life
17.10.18-
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Launch of a major project on water reuse at Cairo Water Week.…
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Applying the science of scaling
17.10.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new RTB initiative is applying the science of scaling to accelerate promising agricultural technol…
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Policy seminar: Extending cold chains with solar power in Nigeria
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In Nigeria, 45 percent of domestically produced food is lost due to spoilage, mostly because…
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Overcoming the roadblocks to ending poverty
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Twenty-five years after the United Nations first declared Oct. 17 as the International Day for the…
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Leading female rice scientists, young researchers recognized for solutions to global food and nutrition security
17.10.18-
Food security
17 October 2018, Singapore—Female scientists and early career researchers were among the seven tra…
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