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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
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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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The power of science to halt deforestation
23.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Science and research can offer significant contributions to halting deforestation and increasing the…
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How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust
23.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered ir…
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‘Move out, move up’ approach could ease India’s farm crisis: IFPRI chief (The Hindu)
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Hindu published an article in which IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, outlines how a …
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Seeds of Renaissance: Changing lives in Borno
22.03.18Reports of a positive impact are being received from recipients of the seeds donated exactly…
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World Water Day: Feeding millions from the ground up – the promise of groundwater-fed irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara
22.03.18-
Environmental health
March 22, 2018 IFPRI Blog Hua Xie Claudia Ringler World Water Day: Feeding millions from…
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Workshop on Enhancing Pulses Productivity in Eastern India
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Food security
West Bengal, India, March 3 – ICARDA India conducted a day-long training for farmers to…
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Phys.org: Agriculture must make water use go further
22.03.18In a world where water risks running short for many, the especially thirsty agricultural industry…
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JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water
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Environmental health
While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…
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Water Crises Are Hitting Our Economies. Time to Hit Back with Natural Infrastructure
21.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This Thrive blog was originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters. With rapidly dwindling…
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Public-private partnerships and the sustainability of sweetpotato Early Generation Seed production
21.03.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The third instalment in this blog series for SeedSystem.org by scientists from the International …
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At the World Water Forum 2018
21.03.18-
Environmental health
The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of…
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World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due
21.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions…
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Workshop with German partners to mobilize resources for joint research to improve animal and human health
21.03.18-
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Nutrition
Collaboration between the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and German partners date…
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EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…
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Assam signs agreement with IRRI and development partners for Agribusiness and Rural Transformation project funded by World Bank
21.03.18-
Food security
16 March, Guwahati, Assam-Initiating next steps for the world-bank funded project ‘Assam Agribusin…
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Halting deforestation is ‘everyone’s fight’
21.03.18-
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Photo by N. Sujana/CIFOR Halting and reversing deforestation are key to achieving the Sustainable De…
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International Day of Forests. What is the state of the world’s forests?
21.03.18-
Environmental health
When it comes to caring for forests, it’s not only a matter of what forests…
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Breakthrough in improving yield potential could continue what the Green Revolution started
21.03.18A lot has been written about the Green Revolution in the late 1960s, which…
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