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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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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-
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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
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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IITA hosts Australia Awards symposium on irrigation and water resource management
16.05.19-
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Irrigation specialists from Australia, Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria gathered for a symposium at II…
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MUST WATCH: Celebrating Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation
14.05.19-
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Tomorrow afternoon, 15 May 2019, on the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, campus of the International Livestock…
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How to transform food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions
13.05.19-
Food security
On May 6, a global panel of scientists representing more than 130 nations released the…
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Balangiga Farmer – Fisherfolk women learn how to make food products from dried cassava grates
08.05.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Who knew so many different products could be made from cassava? Now thanks to the…
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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist
08.05.19-
Food security
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A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that …
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Global Report on Food Crises 2019: Conflict, climate, and economic shocks keep acute hunger levels above 100 million
07.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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With only a slight fall in the number of people facing acute levels of hunger…
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An Integrated, Economically-Sustainable Cassava Seed System is Emerging in Nigeria
02.05.19-
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The project “Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System for Cassava (BASICS)” c…
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DG Sanginga graces handover of aflatoxin laboratory and launch of Aflasafe in Malawi
02.05.19-
Food security
During the recent handover of the Aflatoxin Research and Training laboratory in Malawi on 10…
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Policy outreach to mainstream SIMLESA learning: Q&A with Paswel Marenya
30.04.19-
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The Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Af…
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Global team cracks genetic code to develop high-yielding, climate resilient chickpea
30.04.19-
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Research also maps the center of origin and migration route of chickpea In a major…
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More research on African swine fever is urgently needed: No cure, no vaccine and no treatment yet exists for this lethal pig disease
30.04.19-
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Pigs at the commerical drestry farm industry (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) African swine fever …
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New study identifies best agronomic practices to reduce fall armyworm damage
27.04.19-
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Food security
The fall armyworm, an invasive insect-pest native to the Americas, has caused significant damage to…
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Ask the innovators: Which agricultural practices work best locally?
26.04.19-
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A new study by Bioversity International explores the power of ‘positive deviance’ in Tanzania. B…
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“We are developing environmentally sustainable and productive livestock systems”: Michael Peters
25.04.19-
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Michael Peters and his team have been developing tropical forage varieties that enable improved anim…
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Research busts common myths about agricultural labor in Africa, suggests a shift in mechanization policy
25.04.19-
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New farm-level research into agricultural labor in eastern and southern Africa found that a lack…
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Launch of CIPRiSSA-Gambia report
24.04.19-
Food security
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has mandated AfricaRice to lead the development of ‘Continenta…
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Scientists discuss ways to improve RTB planting materials
24.04.19-
Food security
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Cross-cutting Cluster 2.1 had its…
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CGIAR Science Council urges focus on urbanization in Agriculture & Food Systems 2050 Report
24.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently launched 'Agriculture & F…
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