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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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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
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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Undervalued and underutilized – cocoyam is ripe for development
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)15.12.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Many readers may never have heard of cocoyam. That’s hardly surprising as this is…
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Agriculture for Peace: A call to action to avert a global food crisis
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)14.12.20-
Food security
50 years ago, the late Norman Borlaug received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for averting…
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Press Release: “Historic” release of six improved wheat varieties in Nepal
CGIAR Research Program on Wheat11.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Kathmandu (Nepal) December 11, 2020 The Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the rel…
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Policy seminar: Information and collaboration both key to preventing food crises
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)11.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SARA GUSTAFSON From the COVID-19 pandemic to persistent conflict to desert locust outbreaks, popu…
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Sorghum and millet grow money for the Mariko family
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)11.12.20-
Food security
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Health
Use of improved seed triples yields, credit through warrantage system leads to big gains. Access…
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Is it crunch time for the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus? 3 recommendations to move the needle
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)10.12.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
The concept of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus has gained widespread traction in the last decade…
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“Let there be food to eat”
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)09.12.20-
Food security
“We want to feed the people, we don’t want them to go hungry. We have…
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National breeding programs prepped to measure – and boost – genetic gains
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)08.12.20-
Food security
By adopting best practices and established modern tools, NARS (national agricultural research system…
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Crop breeding and soil management must go hand in hand
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)05.12.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Crop breeding is helping farmers in the developing world produce higher yields and better products…
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Nitrogen in agriculture
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Nitrogen is the most essential nutrient in crop production but also one of the most…
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IFPRI book: What Africa can learn from Asia about agricultural mechanization
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)04.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Agricultural mechanization has many benefits for developing countries: It raise…
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Embracing natural cycles for a sustainable food system
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)04.12.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
All farmers, whether they live in the chilly Ethiopian highlands or in the sun-baked plains…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Sergio Macedo Gomes de Mattos
WorldFish04.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Gender dynamics in seed systems development: Emerging research of critical importance
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)30.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
New PIM Synthesis Brief provides analysis of current issues and an outlook for future research…
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2020 CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference: Boosting China's urban-rural integrated development
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)30.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Donghe Li China’s rapid economic growth has been driven by urbanization, and vice versa.…
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Banana seed system innovations – assessing decision-making roles to increase their take-up
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)30.11.20-
Food security
Innovations in seed systems can have a powerful impact on crop production, particularly in…
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History meets hydrology in a South Indian district's perilous water gap
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)30.11.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Kolar district, in India's southern state of Karnataka, has been known for centuries as a…
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Newly launched millet food finder shows a revolution is underway
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)27.11.20-
Food security
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Health
Millets have sometimes been hailed as the next quinoa but researchers collating a global database…
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