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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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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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Ethiopia’s social safety net effective in limiting COVID-19 impacts on rural food insecurity
28.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KIBROM A. ABAY, GUUSH BERHANE, JOHN HODDINOTT AND KIBROM TAFERE Multiple studies have documented…
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Policy seminar: Tackling the double burden of malnutrition with double-duty actions
27.01.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
The double burden of malnutrition—the combination of undernutrition (stunting, wasting, and micron…
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MAIZE delivers “valuable solutions” for critical needs, according to an external review
27.01.21-
Food security
The CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) “uniquely fills a gap at the global and…
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CGIAR breeding brings major returns on investment, finds study
26.01.21-
Food security
Governments and foundations investing in CGIAR are seeing extraordinary value for money, according t…
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Book: Global perspectives on agricultural development
26.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY KEIJIRO OTSUKA AND SHENGGEN FAN While agricultural development has long been linked to increased…
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ICARDA's New Video Series on Cactus Pear Production
26.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at…
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Food security
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Policymakers urged to prioritize aquatic foods to end malnutrition
21.01.21-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Global policymakers and development funders have been urged to think of fish and other aquatic…
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Nutrition-sensitive approaches from pond to plate in Myanmar
19.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Looking at aquaculture through a nutrition lens is leading production and dietary shifts toward dive…
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Increased sustainability and research capacity for tilapia aquaculture in Zambia
19.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Aquaculture is currently the main consumer of global fishmeal production. Sustainability concerns in…
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Improving the prospects for breeding better bananas
18.01.21-
Food security
Progressive heterobeltiosis for bunch weight in bred ‘Matooke’ banana hybrids (NARITAs), when gr…
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Gender equity in the food environment: Considerations for low- and middle-income countries
18.01.21-
Food security
To truly understand the role of gender and inequities in the food system, nutrition and…
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WEF event: Building gender equitable food systems
13.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
By SOKHNA SALL SECK Empowering women and girls and the recognition and respect of their…
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Press Release: FFAR Grant Develops Climate-Resilient Wheat
11.01.21-
Food security
FFAR + CIMMYT NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Brian Oakes, FFAR: 202-604-5756, boakes@founda…
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Four ways One CGIAR breeding programs can walk the talk on innovation
11.01.21-
Food security
By Hugo Campos and Michael Quinn In the face of accelerated climate change, COVID-19 and…
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Agricultural value chain finance can help drive Myanmar’s agricultural growth
11.01.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SIDDHARTHA BASU, ALAN DE BRAUW, KHIN PWINT OO AND RUSSELL TOTH Surrounded by some…
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Taking stock of value chain development
07.01.21-
Food security
In 1967 Albert O. Hirschman, the pioneering development economist, published Development Projects Ob…
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