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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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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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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity
11.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
(SINGAPORE – 12 October 2018) – THE WORLD’S LARGEST rice collection is to receive…
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IRRI and Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and Planning highlight resource mobilization efforts to boost agri-food sector
11.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
09 October 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh - The vital importance of investing in research for…
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Securing rights of indigenous peoples, local communities may curb global warming: Reaction to IPCC Report
10.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforesta…
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WEBINAR: Measuring policy distortions along agricultural value chains: Lessons from Africa and Asia
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The global agricultural sector is undergoing a transformation, with a rapid expansion of trade in…
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From science to scaling: 2017 Annual Report
10.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
We are pleased to share the 2017 Annual Report from the CGIAR Research Program on…
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Charting the future of India’s sugar industry
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DEEPAYAN DEBNATH AND SURESH BABU India’s domestic sugar market is in the doldrums, as the…
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Evidence, interventions and impact: Building informal market food safety capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
09.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
In September 2018, a Brussels Development Briefing featured discussions on "Food safety: A critical…
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Erosion is eating away at African farms. Here’s why measuring the damage is so important
09.10.18-
Environmental health
With severe weather on the rise, farmers and downstream water users are being besieged by…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
09.10.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Giulia Micheletti, Marlène Elias, and Jessica Raneri of Bioversity International describe a nu…
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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses
09.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making…
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Governing forests for sustainability: What works?
09.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BOGOR, Indonesia (Forests News) — What can 19 reviews assessing 1,200 research articles spanning o…
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