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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The COVID 19 pandemic has made more clear than ever the need for and role…
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Georgia Seed Model Farm Opens
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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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Building Forward Better: Experts Echo the Call for Food System Transformation
29.03.21The post Building Forward Better: Experts Echo the Call for Food System Transformation appeared…
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Trends in Varietal Diversity of Main Staple Crops in Asia and Africa and Implications for Sustainable Food Systems
22.03.21A recent study from the International Potato Center (CIP) calls attention to downward trends in…
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Women hold the seeds of a stronger food system for Peru
18.03.21The extremes of climate change and now COVID-19 have put Andean farmers at the sharpest end of…
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