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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…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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
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
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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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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COVID-19, food systems, and One Health in an urbanizing world: Research responses at a national level
13.07.21The course and effects of COVID-19 have exposed new vulnerabilities in our global food system.…
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Breeding nutritious sweetpotatoes in Zambia
08.07.21Dr. Martin Chiona is plant breeder and head of the root and tuber research team at the…
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AKILIMO digital platform improves potato yields in Rwanda
01.07.21-
Big data
Potato yields are highly-dependent on fertilizer use but pinpointing the amount of fertilizer to b…
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Three new CGIAR GENDER Platform grants awarded to better integrate women’s empowerment and nutrition into research design
24.06.21-
Gender equality
The CGIAR GENDER Platform has recently announced three recipients of its research grants to integrat…
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Catalyzing a greater supply of seed potato in Kenya
15.06.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As a food security crop and cash crop, potato is a source of income for farmers, traders and…
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Innovation, the key for bridging R&D with impact at scale
14.06.21The need to innovate in agriculture is more urgent than ever. Rising populations will require…
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Agroecology: Possible pathways to inclusive and sustainable food systems in Latin America
07.06.21A new research project in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador will generate evidence on the contribution…
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CIP mourns the passing of Ron Gall
31.05.21With heavy hearts, the International Potato Center (CIP) acknowledges the passing of Ron Gall, the…
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Biofortified sweetpotato making nutritious inroads in Zimbabwe
24.05.21Micronutrient malnutrition is a major public health problem in Zimbabwe: One in four children betw…
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G+ Tools Provide a Clearer View to Crop Breeding
19.05.21-
Big data
In this famous optical illusion, some people see a rabbit, while others see a duck.…
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Digital Technologies Keep Farmers Productive During COVID 19
14.05.21-
Big data
The COVID 19 pandemic has made more clear than ever the need for and role…
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Georgia Seed Model Farm Opens
26.04.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dignitaries, researchers, and private sector representatives gathered this week in southwestern Geor…
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Biofortified sweetpotato improving lives of smallholder farmers in Malawi
23.04.21Historically, most of Malawi’s food has been produced by small-scale farmers operating on less tha…
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CIP’s remembered ancestors still relevant today: Robert Rhoades, agricultural anthropologist (1942–2010)
13.04.21Scientists build on the evidence of their peers, passing it on, improving their methodologies and…
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A One Health approach to plant health
07.04.21The post A One Health approach to plant health appeared first on International Potato Center.…
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