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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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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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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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“We are receiving a free subsidy from nature, but it will not continue indefinitely” – Louis Verchot
12.08.19-
Biodiversity
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“Many findings are important for us and for policy makers around the world. The report…
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Heat-tolerant wild beans tapped to breed commercial beans for hotter climates
09.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Using the genetic traits of a wild bean species, CIAT and the Crop Trust are…
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Warmer night temperatures reduce wheat yields in Mexico, scientists say
08.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As many regions worldwide baked under some of the most persistent heatwaves on record, scientists…
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Preparing Ghanaian cocoa farmers for changing climate conditions
08.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
CIAT collaborates with CocoaLink to help young farmers mitigate the negative effects of climate chan…
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Benefits from trees regreen land and livelihoods
05.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Smallholders in Ethiopia are set to benefit from development of tree value-chains. Wood-fuel, round …
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Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Crop Trust, the indicator pro…
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FEATURE: Why financing is tied to the future of a biodiverse planet
31.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
We will end the year 2019 without having completely achieved any of the Aichi Biodiversity…
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IRRI, Tao Corporation sign pact for the commercialization and distribution of elite hybrid rice varieties across the Philippines
31.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Partnership seen to give local rice farmers better access to seeds of high-yielding and climate-resi…
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Researchers support district experts and farmers in Climate Risk Profiling
30.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The agriculture sector in Uganda is largely rain fed; this includes Nwoya District located within…
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How do you protect what’s ‘everywhere but nowhere?’
30.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Ethiopia - This week Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program. Ethiopia’s Prim…
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OPINION: Investing in soil health key to closing the yield gaps
30.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Even without climate change, there is an enormous challenge to meet the growing demand for…
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Could these crops save Peruvian forests?
29.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
As noted in a previous blog, a study conducted by CIAT confirms that cacao production…
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How we can protect the world’s most vulnerable countries against climate shocks
29.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Extreme weather events and other climate change-linked disasters have devastated communities globall…
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How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks
29.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Extreme weather events and other climate change-linked disasters have devastated communities globall…
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Talking to farmers about the impact of CCAFS’ work
25.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
One of the first activities undertaken when the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agricultur…
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Terra-i user manual for monitoring land-cover changes is now available
24.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Terra-i, a project by CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) and Agroecosystems and Sustainabl…
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India honors CIMMYT climate-smart farming expert
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) honored a cropping systems agronomist from the…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Taking a new and more comprehensive approach to quantify the impacts climate change will have…
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