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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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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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Farmer science accelerates climate adaptation
19.02.19-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study in PNAS addresses the challenge of climate adaptation in a way that…
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How Data Collected To Identify Cassava Varieties in Vietnam Helped Southeast Asia Respond Rapidly To a Viral Disease Outbreak
06.02.19-
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The collection of data on the adoption of CGIAR-related crop varieties is a priority for…
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Seeing really is believing: Farmers’ photos revolutionize insurance and advisory services
29.01.19-
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As climate change-driven droughts, storms, and floods continue to challenge smallholder farmers, the…
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Now, get critical seed data in one click
18.01.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A modern digital seed ‘catalog’ and seed ‘roadmap’ tool is now available for information abo…
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Reducing high yield gaps with decision-support apps
15.01.19-
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Food security
Ethiopia is Africa’s third largest producer of maize, after Nigeria and South Africa. Although the…
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Byte by byte: How improved data management is enhancing innovation and impact
14.01.19-
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WorldFish has been a leader in aquaculture and fisheries development for decades, producing valuable…
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Trees on farms: a biodiversity assessment tool
20.12.18-
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Biodiversity
Researchers have created a new tool to measure biological diversity in farm land, which will…
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Integrating Value Chain research across CGIAR
10.12.18-
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
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New Soil Intelligence System for India provides high-quality data using modern analytics
04.12.18-
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The new Soil Intelligence System (SIS) for India will help the states of Andhra Pradesh,…
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Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning platform wins silver award in Berlin
03.12.18-
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The Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning online platform (MEL), used by eight CGIAR Research Progra…
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More than 100,000 installations of BiodiversityR: growing a better understanding of biodiversity
30.11.18-
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Biodiversity
Based on daily package downloads made available for the RStudio mirror server since 1 October…
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Big data shows big promise for feeding the world
29.11.18-
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Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, however,…
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Decoding food security at the 2018 Big Data in Agriculture Convention
24.11.18-
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In order for the tools of big data to be put to use for food…
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Pest distribution and risk atlas for Africa includes potato and sweetpotato pests
13.11.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Insect pests cause major yield losses in agricultural crops. Climate change is expected to exacerbat…
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Opinion: Big data shows big promise for feeding the world
12.11.18-
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Food security
Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, howe…
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Digital disruption in agriculture
07.11.18-
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture in India contributes to about 17% of GDP but employs nearly 55% of the…
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Ag-Incentives Consortium improves global data on agricultural policies
02.11.18-
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Food security
A group of leading international organizations joined with IFPRI and PIM in 2013 to form the…
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Big data proposal wins 2018 Inspire Challenge
15.10.18-
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WorldFish is a winner of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture’s 2018 Inspire…
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