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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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Rurbanomics: The path to rural revitalization in Africa
05.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The deadlines to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate goals dr…
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The road to women’s economic empowerment: Do women (and men) prefer on or off the farm?
01.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Improving women’s economic empowerment continues to be the focus of a wide range of development…
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Modernizing NARS crop breeding programs for improved genetic gains in 14 countries
01.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A course designed to modernize National Agricultural Research System (NARS) breeding programs for im…
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Revitalizing the rural economy: The power to make a change
31.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the effort to eliminate poverty worldwide, policies that address rural poverty must be central.…
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Tanzania’s female parliamentarians to mainstream gender in climate adaptation
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Climate change has been described as a wicked problem, with complexities, feedback loops and tipping…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the links between information access and effective government
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Access to information, whether it is a citizen seeking information on her local politicians’ manda…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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Achieving agricultural sustainability depends on gender equality
23.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Addressing gender inequality is essential to achieving sustainability in agriculture. High levels of…
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When information leads to better governance in rural areas—and when it doesn’t
18.10.19-
Gender equality
Anyone who doubts the power of information need look no further than the Arab Spring…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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Launch of CRP-GLDC Newsletter “Gender Research in the Drylands”
15.10.19-
Gender equality
On Rural Women’s Day, 15 October 2019, CRP-GLDC launches its newsletter “Gender Research in the…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019
15.10.19-
Gender equality
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural…
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International Day of Rural Women
15.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
The International Day of Rural Women (IDRW) celebrates the vital role that rural women play…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019: Measuring what matters for gender equality
14.10.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
So far, 99 organizations have used the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), an innova…
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Study sheds new light on roles of women and men on RTB farms
14.10.19-
Gender equality
Results from a household survey of farmers in Rwanda and Burundi challenge our stereotypes about…
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Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets
11.10.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on…
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