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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
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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Dried fish in a COVID-19 world
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates powerfully and directly the degree to which globalization has crea…
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This little seed went to market
18.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India’s agricultural policy
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
As the coronavirus crisis triggers a large-scale exodus of migrant agricultural workers from India…
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A four-pronged plan to secure farming communities in Eastern and Southern Africa
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
ICRISAT is working with an array of development partners in Eastern and Southern Africa to…
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Fixing the global food system after coronavirus
15.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY RUBEN ECHEVARRÍA From panic-buying in Europe, to bans on rice exports in Asia and rising fo…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
Big data
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Food security
While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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Sweetpotato refuse becomes a valuable resource
14.05.20-
Food security
Small-scale sweetpotato farmers in Uganda have adopted innovative technologies that not only improve…
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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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Virtual seminar: IFPRI researchers on COVID-19 emerging problems and country-level responses
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and…
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Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable
14.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Floods are becoming fiercer and more frequent – and sometimes catastrophic. Across Asia, where mil…
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Integrating fish conservation with water sanitation during COVID-19 in Cambodia
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
In rural Cambodia, many households are burdened with having to collect and treat their own…
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Resilient and participatory: How Quito’s setting the standard on urban food systems
14.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Like many cities around the world, Quito, Ecuador, is confronting major challenges around providing …
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Fall armyworm survey marks CIMMYT’s first research project in Laos
13.05.20-
Food security
A major farmer survey is gathering data to understand how smallholders in Laos are responding…
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COVID-19 border policies create problems for African trade and economic pain for communities
12.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ANTOINE BOUËT AND DAVID LABORDE Across Africa, countries have imposed emergency border restrict…
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COVID-19: Stakeholders count losses in Aquaculture
11.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised an alarm of a looming food crisis unless…
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‘Our lives depend on it’: Women’s gleaning vital for food and income in Timor-Leste
11.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s 5 am on an August morning. The tide is low at Beacou beach, where…
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Compendium of indicators for food system assessment
10.05.20-
Food security
Food systems research is a vast topic with many entry points. This compendium explains the…
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