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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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Food security
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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International Day of Rural Women 2018
15.10.18-
Gender equality
To celebrate the International Day of Rural Women on October 15th, the CGIAR Collaborative Platform…
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Gender mainstreaming in value chain development triggers women’s empowerment in Uganda
15.10.18-
Gender equality
A gender focus introduced in value chain development in Uganda has allowed women and men…
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Ambassador Kenneth Quinn on the challenge of feeding 9 billion people
15.10.18Booming population growth in the face of climate change is putting undue pressures on the…
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A closer look at gender relations in forest landscape restoration
15.10.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
On this occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, Giulia Micheletti and Marlène Elias…
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Securing the Future of Rice: Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, and IRRI Ink Partnership to Develop Advanced Rice Technologies and Programs
15.10.18-
Food security
SINGAPORE, 15 Oct. 2018 – Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP),…
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From agronomic practices to gender norms and agency in banana disease management
15.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
On the International Day of Rural Women, our researcher François Iradukunda reflects on how a…
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Women’s hidden harvest: the AmaXhosa women and traditional culture survival practices
15.10.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
On the occasion of International Day of Rural Women, Dr. Katie Tavenner takes us on…
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Big data proposal wins 2018 Inspire Challenge
15.10.18-
Big data
WorldFish is a winner of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture’s 2018 Inspire…
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How gender shapes responses to climate change: New tools for measuring rural women’s empowerment
15.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY SOPHIE THEIS AND ELENA MARTINEZ This year’s International Day of Rural Women (Oct. 15) focu…
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IRRI partners with Singapore and UN’s FAO to address world hunger and malnutrition
15.10.18-
Food security
(SINGAPORE, 15 October 2018) – At the opening ceremonies of the world’s largest scientific confe…
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Securing rights of indigenous peoples and local communities may curb global warming
15.10.18Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforesta…
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Lessons from an early adopter of sorghum technologies in Kitui, Eastern Kenya
15.10.18-
Gender equality
As a gender researcher working in dryland agricultural research, one of the outcomes we strive…
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New Study: Domestic Migration Raises Incomes, Lowers Happiness
14.10.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington DC: Domestic migrants experience a substantial decline in mental and physical health, des…
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Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary: Data is ‘key’ to smart farming
12.10.18-
Big data
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Food security
Addressing hundreds of participants at the 2018 Global CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture…
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Competitive outsourcing to private contractors can improve public service delivery
12.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JORDAN KYLE Delivering public services effectively is essential for development. Yet governments …
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International Day of Rural Women
12.10.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Groundwater is notoriously difficult to manage. One cannot easily see how much is available, who…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
Big data
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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
AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
11.10.18-
Food security
BY GASHAW TADESSE ABATE, TANGUY BERNARD, ALAN DE BRAUW, NICHOLAS MINOT AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT Sma…
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