News
Featured news
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
-
Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more
Filters
-
Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
Read more -
-
Tanzania’s traditional cooking banana yields more than expected!
28.02.20-
Food security
The yield potential of an important cooking banana in Tanzania, known as Mchare, has exceeded…
Read more -
-
Indian farmers reap profits from machine harvestable chickpea
28.02.20-
Food security
-
Health
Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
Read more -
-
Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
Read more -
-
Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
Read more -
-
AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
Big data
-
Biodiversity
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
-
Food security
-
Gender equality
-
Health
-
Nutrition
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
Read more -
-
Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
26.02.20-
Food security
-
Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
Read more -
-
Modelling farming systems to understand potential outcomes of agricultural interventions
25.02.20-
Food security
Three recent studies show how modelling systems can be an effective tool for decision-makers to…
Read more -
-
Policy seminar: Introducing the Food Systems Dashboard
25.02.20-
Food security
-
Health
With as many as 32 major reports on food systems out in the past few…
Read more -
-
Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
Big data
-
Food security
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
Read more -
-
ASEAN prepares for post-2020 biodiversity framework
24.02.20-
Biodiversity
-
Food security
Governments of the 650 million people of the regional bloc are gearing up to embrace…
Read more -
-
Book launch: The making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh
21.02.20-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For decades, high fish prices contributed to poor nutrition in Bangladesh, placing a key source…
Read more -
-
India forum: Securing the harvest for food security
21.02.20-
Food security
Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest…
Read more -
-
First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
21.02.20-
Biodiversity
-
Food security
Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with the unveiling of ICRISAT’s…
Read more -
-
Spotlight on pearl millet – biofortification and drought tolerance
21.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
Pearl millet scientists discussed the ‘Future micronutrient breeding strategy in pearl millet’, …
Read more -
-
Scaling Readiness: A scientific approach to scaling innovations
19.02.20-
Food security
Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. …
Read more -
-
Does rural Africa have a 'youth problem'?
19.02.20-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 20 million young people aged 15-24 join the workforce in Africa south of…
Read more -
-
Guardian.ng: Valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in fast-rising streams
19.02.20-
Food security
-
Nutrition
“For countries to progress, there is a need to invest in a supportive regulatory and…
Read more -