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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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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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What African farmers and processors say about the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns
29.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Maintaining the dialog with the farming community and industry Farmers and other key stakeholders in…
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Rethink water for SDG 6 and beyond – more urgent than ever
27.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Only if we rethink the paradigms that have guided water policy and investments so far,…
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New multipurpose sorghum variety captures attention in Burkina Faso
26.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
A new variety of sorghum that delivers high yields of grain and stover is gaining…
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Solutions in nature: promoting the efficacy of indigenous medicinal plants
25.05.20-
Biodiversity
Over the centuries, earth’s biological diversity has played a crucial role in the development and…
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Virtual event: COVID-19 and the global effort to end food loss and waste by 2030
22.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, TINE HASLING RASMUSSEN AND JILLIAN HOLZER Can we meet Sustainable Development…
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Preserving the legacy of biodiversity
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
19.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector
14.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
As communities around the world cope with the novel coronavirus, it’s becoming clearer that the…
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How do you feel about agroforestry?
12.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over the last five decades of agroforestry research, only a handful of studies have investigated…
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What makes an integrated development plan truly integrated?
08.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
When the Turkana County Government in Kenya partnered with the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-Informe…
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Call for proposals: The Future of X
08.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
As part of the forthcoming CGIAR Foresight Report, a series of short notes will be…
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Let’s not forget the quality of food in crisis, millet entrepreneurs speak out
07.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Pan-India survey highlights areas for government intervention A recent survey of millet entrepreneur…
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How much food is actually lost and wasted? The role of careful measurement
06.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
In the time of crisis such as the world is living through now, it is…
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Registration systems for farmers’ varieties: Ongoing policy dialogues and experiences from the field
06.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Why haven’t farmers’ varieties yet found a place in national and global seed markets? And…
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PIM News: April 2020
05.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
April 2020 collection of COVID-19 resources, new publications, blogs, webinars, and more from the CG…
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Improving small-scale crop production using evidence-based soils agronomy
05.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Small-scale farming is the main food security contributor in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, owing to c…
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