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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
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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The IDB and CGIAR discuss the importance of strengthening agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
15.02.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in collaboration with the International…
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Growing stronger with every season
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Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGIS) is observed annually…
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Some things have to die for others to live: Why scaling down is just as important as scaling up in the transformation of global food systems
09.02.23Efforts to transform global food systems typically focus on introducing/scaling new innovations/prog…
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Supporting the careers of women in science
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Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Happy Makuru Daudi, Head of Groundnut Research Program at the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institu…
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Solar powered dryers boost peanut production in Togo
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Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Solar powered peanut dryers in Togo are helping women-run cooperatives reduce their workload and inc…
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Farmers harvested double yield by adopting Wengkhar Hybrid Maize 1 in Bhutan
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Nutrition, health & food security
This story is written by P.H. Zaidi of CIMMYT and Passang Wangmo and Tsheltrim Gyeltshen…
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Measuring the prevalence of the use of toxic chemicals for tick control in Uganda
26.01.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Richard Ariong, Jordan Chamberlin (CIMMYT), Sarah Wairimu Kariuki and Bjorn Van Campenhout (IFPRI…
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More than a drop in the bucket: addressing food security in Nepal through improved sustainable irrigation
26.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Agriculture is always impacted by war. However, Russia’s war in Ukraine, fought between two major…
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CIMMYT-China workshop aims to facilitate future collaborations to battle climate change
18.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The negative effects of climate change on food systems are felt across political boundaries, so…
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One CGIAR cross-initative collaboration on Farming Systems Analysis in support of user-centred research and innovation
10.01.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Farming Systems Analysis (FSA) is commonly used in CGIAR to assess ‘what works where, and…
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Scaling Scan website launched
10.01.23The Scaling Scan website has been launched offering the latest news, manuals, videos, trainings, a…
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For women in Ivory Coast, processing cassava no longer has to be a grind
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Attieke is the national dish of Ivory Coast. Served with fried fish or a vegetable…
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A reluctant farmer changes the fortune of his inherited land
22.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the sultry spring-summer heat of Bihar, India, the landscape is yellow with wheat grains…
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Sustainability of rice production in the Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains
16.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Rice is a vital crop for India, contributing around 30 percent of calories consumed in…
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The importance of germplasm in protecting nature
15.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Prioritizing the protection of biodiversity is an essential part of mitigating and adapting to the…
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Inspiring future generations of scientists
12.12.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Youth
Evidence shows that for every US $1 invested in anticipatory action to safeguard lives and…
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CIMMYT crop scientist shares strategies for decolonization
07.12.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Social inclusion
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) crop scientist Sieglinde Snapp is working …
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CIMMYT leads innovation sprint to deliver results to farmers rapidly
05.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Smallholder farmers, the backbone of food systems around the world, are already facing negative impa…
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