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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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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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Key technology for biofortification goes online
13.12.19-
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Online platform opens up easy access to x-ray fluorescence testing at ICRISAT To support development…
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Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
10.12.19-
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Digital technologies are key to transforming food systems and agriculture across Africa. A Nov. 26…
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Scientists develop an early warning system that delivers wheat rust predictions directly to farmers’ phones
04.11.19-
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Using field and mobile phone surveillance data together with forecasts for spore dispersal and envir…
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Mobile-based monitoring tool rolled out for national partners in 7 African countries
01.11.19-
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“The MLE [Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation] tool MEASURE (Monitoring and Evaluation of Agri-Sci…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the links between information access and effective government
25.10.19-
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Access to information, whether it is a citizen seeking information on her local politicians’ manda…
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CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
25.10.19-
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Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire…
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A BIG Win…for Big Data with Big Benefits!
21.10.19-
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We are delighted  to announce that we are one of the winners at the CGIAR…
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A new approach to modeling: Placing sustainable development at its core
18.10.19-
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In June, a team of experts in modeling and sustainable development policy making (including IFPRI's…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
18.10.19-
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More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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UN-sponsored report acknowledges CIMMYT’s use of data and technologies to promote sustainable farming in Latin America
24.09.19-
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CIMMYT’s projects in Latin America feature in a new report that aims to help countries…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
22.05.19-
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Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
15.04.19-
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Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure…
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How the data revolution could help design better agronomic investments
02.04.19-
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What fertilizer application will give me the best returns? What maize crop variety should I…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
02.04.19-
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This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Four Surprising Ways Mode and Gender Can Transform Your Survey Data
19.03.19-
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Mobile data collection technologies are increasingly being used to collect data remotely. However, t…
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Exploring young Africans’ role and engagement in the rural economy
15.03.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How do young rural Africans engage in the rural economy? How important is farming relative…
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Digital imaging tools make maize breeding much more efficient
11.03.19-
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To keep up with growing maize demand, breeders aim at optimizing annual yield gain under…
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International Women’s Day 2019
08.03.19-
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Innovating for change: Spotlight on a champion rice processor in Africa On the occasion of…
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