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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-
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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Transforming agriculture: The role of agroforestry
20.11.19-
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The need to transform our global food system has already been well established. Tony Simons,…
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In refugee crises, it's crucial to maintain environment and trees
19.11.19-
Biodiversity
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one right from the start, refugee crises can be managed to minimize damage to the…
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Trees for Food Security Project bearing fruit in Ethiopia
15.11.19-
Biodiversity
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On 16-17 October 2019, ICRAF’s Interim Regional Coordinator for the Eastern and Southern Africa Re…
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Policy transformation for achieving the SDGs: Can translational research help?
12.11.19-
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Food security
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will take major transformations of the …
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Why tree diversity in agroforestry matters: perspectives from the Comoros archipelago
12.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The island of Anjouan in the Comoros has experienced one of the highest deforestation rates…
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Trees in the mist: domesticating local forest trees to restore the Comoros archipelago
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Forming a part of the Madagascar and Indian Ocean biodiversity hotspot is the island of…
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ICRAF and FTA host first technical discussion on the development of a gender-responsive post-2020 global biodiversity framework
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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The unprecedented and accelerating loss of biodiversity is one of the greatest crises of our tim…
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Consolidated efforts to modernize crop improvement in Ghana
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A Regional Coordinated Trial (RCT) is helping Cowpea Improvement Program in Ghana, thanks to Acceler…
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Spotlight on crop diversity as ICRISAT’s Genebank holds inaugural field day
11.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Cutting across disciplines of crop research, scientists gathered at ICRISAT to observe and evaluate …
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CIFOR and ICRAF join 11,000 scientists to declare ‘climate emergency’
08.11.19-
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More than 11,000 scientists worldwide signed a paper published by the journal BioScience on Tuesda…
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Participants call experience sharing and on-farm training an “eye-opener”
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Tesfaye Degaga, 54, is a farmer who lives near Meki, a town located in the…
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Guardians of the Native Potato: 5th Annual Assembly of AGUAPAN
05.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Indigenous farmers from the central Peruvian Andes gathered in Paucará, Huancavelica for the 5th An…
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Hybrid rice review: Updating notions about hybrid rice
05.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Recent research and technological advancements have significantly improved the quality and viability…
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Unity in the face of the global climate crisis: How sharing expert knowledge translates to on-the-ground solutions
01.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the face of a global ecosystem collapse, the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods,…
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Chilling out for conservation
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
CGIAR genebanks are using cryopreservation for the long-term conservation of crops which can’t be …
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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FAO SOFA report 2019: New insights into food loss and waste
22.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Fourteen percent of the food produced globally is lost during the post-harvest production stage befo…
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