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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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Big data
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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Integrated initiative launches in Nepal, India and Bangladesh
21.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR, in collaboration with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders, held country launc…
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Enhancing sustainable intensification for people and the planet
20.09.22As the global population approaches eight billion and climate change threatens farming in varied way…
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Boosting abilities to develop nutritious sweetpotatoes for Central Americans
19.08.22An estimated two billion people suffer undernourishment, or micronutrient deficiencies, which is why…
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Developing and sharing innovations: from the lab to field to scale
13.08.22Potato and sweetpotato are the third and seventh most important food crops globally. Yet most…
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Honduras launches AgriLAC Resiliente, a regional initiative to strengthen food systems in the region
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
AgriLAC Resiliente is a regional CGIAR initiative that seeks to improve the livelihoods of producers…
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Change agents and better seeds lead to sweetpotato success in Tanzania
27.06.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In any field, change needs leaders – even in agriculture. Mary Samson may appear like…
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Inclusive innovation in agricultural value chains: Lessons from the Participatory Market Chain Approach
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A recent study from the International Potato Center explores the impact and outcomes of the…
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Gender and variety trait preferences in Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique
27.04.22-
Gender equality
To ensure better adoption of vitamin-A rich sweetpotato, it is paramount to develop varieties that…
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School children in Huancavelica excited by the story “The Powerful Potatoes”
25.04.22A true celebration was experienced by schoolchildren from four rural communities in Huancavelica whe…
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Good agronomic practices with sweetpotato are cause for celebration in Uganda
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Everyone smiled, grasped hands, and shook their heads in wonder. The excitement at Michael Mugabi’…
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Innovating with Roots, Tubers and Bananas
11.04.22-
Biodiversity
We are delighted to announce the publication of the book “Root, Tuber and Banana Food…
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Food for Nourishment, Food for Empowerment
06.04.22One book empowered an entire community. The quest began as a desire to showcase the…
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Smartphone app help farmers control potato and sweetpotato diseases
04.04.22-
Health
Pests and diseases destroy between 20 and 40% of crops globally, and farmers in developing…
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Cameroon learns potato lessons from Kenya
31.03.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Potato is an important food and nutritional security crop in sub-Saharan Africa. However, a quick…
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On-Farm Trials Thrive with Support from Farmer Groups
28.03.22-
Gender equality
For the past three years, the International Potato Center’s (CIP) SweetGAINS program in Africa has…
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Crowdsourcing market intelligence to boost sweetpotato breeding impacts in Uganda
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scientists with the International Potato Center (CIP) and Uganda’s National Crops Resources Resear…
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Revealing the deeper forces impacting women’s lives after COVID-19
14.03.22-
Gender equality
As the world emerges from the pandemic, agricultural researchers have begun training their lenses to…
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Weathering the storm: root and tuber crops boost climate resilience
10.03.22As climate change advances, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, and they pose a…
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