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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program09.07.25-
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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
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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A catastrophe avoided
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)05.11.20-
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There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. So goes the old…
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What can the last 30 years of research tell us?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Global climate change represents an existential threat to many of the world’s most vulnerable farm…
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IWMI receives the 2020 GEO Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Award
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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This is in recognition of the Index-Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) product developed by IWMI scientist…
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Reflections on resilience
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Most of us here were born and raised in this ward, helping our parents with…
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Climate-smart innovations can boost aquatic food systems productivity in Bangladesh, says climate change expert
WorldFish20.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Climate-smart innovations are urgently needed to help poor and vulnerable aquatic food system actors…
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Bethany Smith – Emerging Scientist Series
WorldFish19.10.20-
Big data
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Bethany Smith is a junior researcher working remotely from Australia for the WorldFish Myanmar team.…
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The Failing Food Systems: Can Aquatic Foods turn the tide?
WorldFish15.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Currently, 2 billion people around the world lack access to diverse, nutritious, and safe diets…
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Building a better future: How gender research supports rural women during times of crisis
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)15.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Gender research supports more equitable outcomes during and post-crisis, while helping to build more…
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What is sustainable intensification?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By 2050, the world’s population could grow to 9.7 billion, food demand is expected to…
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Breaking Ground: Isaiah Nyagumbo advances climate-smart technologies to improve smallholder farming systems
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Most small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa rely on rain-fed agriculture to sufficiently feed their fam…
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Ceres2030 research: Ending hunger sustainably by 2030 requires doubling assistance
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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BY MARIE PARENT New research concludes that donor country governments must roughly double current am…
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Rural women are reshaping gender norms in northern Ghana
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)14.10.20-
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Understanding how climate, migration, gender roles and Covid-19 affect women and their communities c…
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G20 agriculture and water ministers set agenda for responsible investments in agrifood systems but fail to agree on climate change language
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Agriculture and water ministers from the G20 countries met jointly f…
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Knowledge brokers as a bridge between research and policy
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)04.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Dan McGonigle joined the UK Civil Service in 2007 as a scientific advisor. In 2015…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: What is conservation agriculture?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)01.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Farmers worldwide are increasingly adopting conservation agriculture. In the 2015/2016 season, conse…
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A decade of CCAFS: Two big lessons for the future of climate-smart food systems
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)30.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Our food systems are failing us—the wealth of literature that's now available tells us this…
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Resilient, inclusive aquatic foods systems key to tackling climate change and COVID-19, say researchers
WorldFish25.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Employing a systems approach to build the resilience of all actors in aquatic food systems…
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Tree planting is critical for sustainable future but can’t fix climate change on its own
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)22.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Around 40 kilometers south-west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, native and exotic trees stand…
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