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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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 SystemsÂ
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-
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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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Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes
24.12.18-
Food security
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Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and…
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Operationalizing the Agroforestry Strategy and Plan for Rwanda
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Rwanda was the first African country to declare a target for land restoration, aiming for…
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Four key steps to a sustainable food future
20.12.18-
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The world’s population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, with rising numbers of people …
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In Andhra Pradesh, ICRAF starts deep dive into science of Zero-Budget Natural Farming
19.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) is reported to be followed by 8% of farmers in Andhra…
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Medium-scale farms are on the rise in Africa. Why this is good news
18.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Driven by population growth and growing land scarcity, most African farm households are witnessing t…
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G20 Buenos Aires Summit: Fostering growth and sustainability in food systems
18.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first G20 Summit, held in Washington in 2008 at…
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South Asia symposium: The Food Systems Approach to tackling hunger and malnutrition
17.12.18-
Food security
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal 2 of Zero Hunger requires a holistic approach to food sys…
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Untold Tale of the Tepary
14.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
This holiday season, Bioversity International tells the story of the nutritious and resilient, yet…
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Pakistan wheat seed makeover: More productive, resilient varieties for thousands of farmers
13.12.18-
Food security
Nearly 3,000 smallholder wheat farmers throughout Pakistan will begin to sow seed of newer, high-yie…
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Pro tips for designing and deploying complex agricultural surveys
12.12.18-
Food security
When working on evaluations of agricultural development projects, it is extremely important to get h…
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Why the influence of agricultural policy research is probably greater than we think
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is commonly understood that agricultural and food security policy research can influence policy o…
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Project will explore ways to boost Southeast Asia smallholders’ access to finance
11.12.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder farmers in developing countries face substantial constraints to boosting production—ch…
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Decision-support tools remove the guesswork from agronomic innovation
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Decision-support tools being piloted in Nigeria and Tanzania can help cassava growers decide if agro…
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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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In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
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PIM Flagship Notes 2018: Overview and recent achievements
07.12.18-
Food security
Six newly released two-page brochures, representing each of the PIM research areas ('flagships'), gi…
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Understanding cassava seed networks to curb disease spread in Southeast Asia
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even…
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Jimmy Smith receives honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, received a doctorate with honoris causa and gave the commenc…
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A wheat self-sufficiency roadmap for Ethiopia’s future
05.12.18-
Food security
Despite a record harvest of 4.6 million metric tons in 2017, Ethiopia imported 1.5 million…
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