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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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Food systems that work for people and the environment
02.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Alice Ruhweza, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Board Member and Africa Reg…
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CIMMYT scientists rank in top 1% of highly cited papers
30.11.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Three scientists from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are included in …
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CIMMYT and Join Hope sign partnership agreement
29.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Join Hope have cemented their part…
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CIMMYT at COP27
28.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
COP27, the UN Climate Change Conference for 2022, took place this year in Sharm El-Sheikh,…
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Young CIMMYT scientist receives 2022 Japan Award for global research to combat wheat aphids
24.11.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
International science to save wheat — a crucial food grain for 2.5 billion of the…
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Govaerts delivers keynote speech to Cereals and Grains 22
21.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
One of the biggest challenges facing the world today is how to balance a healthy…
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Agriculture for Peace platform launches at Borlaug Dialogue
18.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Events of the past year have underscored the correlation of food supply chains, and weaknesses…
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Opening the door to commercial fodder production
17.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The paired challenges of population growth and climate change have put smallholder farmers in Zambia…
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Two-wheel tractors transform smallholder farming communities in Masvingo
16.11.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The two-wheel tractor has been a life changer for Ranganai Muzorori. At a recent seed…
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The democratization of innovation
15.11.22-
Big data
When the Norwegian Red Cross hired Kristian Wengen and his consulting firm Tinkr to launch…
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Plant health data is critical for effective policy change
10.11.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
With rising demand for food, it is more critical than ever to address the challenge…
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Is food security possible without peace?
09.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The intersection between agriculture and peace has been brought to the forefront of the news…
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Zambia officials promote sustainable maize cropping practices for small-scale farmers
08.11.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
For the first time in Zambia, a special Ministry of Agriculture committee has endorsed innovative…
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From silver bullets to transition science in the CGIAR: reflections on the scalingXchange Call to Action
27.10.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The origins of the CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly funded agricultural research consortium for…
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CIMMYT project helps educate farmers in Zimbabwe on seed practices and improved varieties
26.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center is working with its partners to support farmers…
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From seed to feed
24.10.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Experts at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are working with partners t…
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CIMMYT and China: A successful partnership since 1974
17.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is a non-profit international organiza…
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CIMMYT delivers seed to Svalbard Global Seed Vault
14.10.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Ambassador of Mexico to Norway, Ulises Canchola Gutiérrez, delivered a deposit from the Interna…
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