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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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Seeking solutions to shortages of quality seed
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Studies in three Africa countries validate the value of seed system tools Seed systems are essen…
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Collaborations Fuel Late Blight Research in China
09.11.21The post Collaborations Fuel Late Blight Research in China appeared first on International Potato Ce…
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Better market intelligence to drive the future of genetic innovation in crops
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While the technology for breeding better crop varieties has enabled veritable leaps and bounds ove…
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LAMP testing paves the way for improved virus diagnostics in cassava and sweetpotato seed in Tanzania
28.10.21Cassava and sweetpotato play a vital role in food security and income generation in Tanzania.…
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The power of partnership: Working with NARS to increase impact
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At the International Potato Center (CIP), our work is conducted through partnerships with the publ…
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Tools and training to increase farmer access to quality seed
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sweetpotato is a highly productive crop and orange-fleshed varieties are an excellent source of vita…
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Perfecting the potato, with help from Peru’s farmers
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This World Food Day, the International Potato Center (CIP) announced a new disease-resistant potato …
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The Future of Food is Wild
12.10.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Climate change is making it harder for farmers to grow enough food to feed their…
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The AsiaBlight Network takes its expertise to the field
20.09.21The post The AsiaBlight Network takes its expertise to the field appeared first on International…
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With 50 years of success in Africa, CIP sets its sights higher
20.09.21Anniversaries mark moments in time to take stock of accomplishments and reflect on the path…
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Science Camp goes live at the CCCAP Science Center
25.08.21As science depends on curating knowledge from the past and the present, the future of…
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AsiaBlight Network Presents Multi-faceted Approach to Control Late Blight
25.08.21As in many parts of the world, late blight disease is a scourge to potato…
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Building and innovating for food system transformation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Inclusive responses to global challenges in CIP’s Annual Report 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic push…
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Defeating potato late blight with farmers’ help in Uganda
27.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Successful innovation for agriculture will depend on thorough and careful understanding of the asp…
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Crops to End Hunger: Accelerating Seed Delivery through Sustainable Seed Systems
26.07.21Looking ahead, food system researchers and national governments around the world are concerne…
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Rwandan farmers help validate and disseminate new potato varieties
23.07.21The triadic comparisons of technologies – or tricot – approach is being used in a citizen-…
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Food system sustainability relies on potato’s “wild relatives”
22.07.21Looking ahead to the next 50 years, potato researchers and farmers have significant concerns about…
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Roots and tubers can help households to weather storms
14.07.21When super-typhoon Ompong blasted through the northern Philippines in September 2018, farmers who gr…
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