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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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SHiFT researchers participate in 1st International Conference on Green Transformation
22.10.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Researchers from the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Tra…
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Invisible threats: Addressing food safety risks in Africa’s informal markets to protect future generations
22.10.24Have you ever paused to ponder the safety of the food on your plate? It…
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Boosting soybean productivity in Africa: IITA-CGIAR hosts tricot on-farm trials workshop
22.10.24IITA–CGIAR hosted a two-day “Tricot on-farm trial workshop” at the institute’s headquarters…
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IITA empowers 35 seed certification officers to boost crop quality and strengthen food security in Togo
22.10.24In a significant step towards improving the quality of seeds and strengthening the agricultural sect…
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IITA supports young FCT farmers with input and machines to boost food security
22.10.24In its bid to enhance agricultural productivity, increase job creation, improve the livelihoods of y…
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Angolan researchers sharpen soil management skills at Soils4Africa’s milestone workshop
22.10.24The Soils4Africa initiative recently held a transformative training workshop in Luanda, Angola, betw…
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IITA and China Agricultural University sign MoU to boost agricultural research and technology exchange
22.10.24IITA and China Agricultural University (CAU) have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (…
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Simeon Ehui: China’s Agricultural and Food Development Experience Can Provide Lessons for Africa
22.10.24Dr. Simeon Ehui, Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), rec…
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IRRI researchers capture consumer insights on low glycemic index rice in ongoing market study
22.10.24-
Nutrition
Lead researcher Marie Claire Custodio discusses the auction mechanics to participants. (Photo by Jho…
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Empowering Women and Youth Farmers in Tanzania Through Threshing Services
22.10.24-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Multi-Crop Thresher Machines (MCTs) Initiative - funded by the United States Agency for Internat…
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Achieving global biodiversity targets requires shifting food and land use system trajectories
22.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use and Energy (FABLE) consortium brings countries togethe…
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Empowering Counties: Building Capacity for GHG Reporting in Kenya’s Crop Production
22.10.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Kenya's crop subsector plays a crucial role in the country's economy, but it is also…
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Colombia se suma al Tratado Internacional de Semillas para fortalecer su agricultura
22.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
En un mundo en constante transformación por factores naturales, económicos y sociales, la diversid…
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Sino-African synergies: An alliance for sustainable food systems
22.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
On August 26, 2024, in Dakar, Senegal, a historic meeting marked a turning point in…
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A Next-Generation Catalog of Cultivated Bananas
22.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
We are living in an incredible time of advances in genomics. Technology is revolutionizing how…
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Building Nature-Positive Seed Systems for Community Seed Banks in Kenya and India
21.10.24Harnessing the Indigenous knowledge of smallholder farmers struggling with climate change, Community…
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A journey through adolescents’ food environments in Vietnam: Innovative research using participatory video making
21.10.24-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
What can we learn about food environments from an adolescent’s perspective? In Vietnam, the rapidl…
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Empowering Communities and Promoting Climate Resilience in Odisha
21.10.24In Odisha, India, farmers and fishers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. However,…
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