How much carbon can Kenyan grasslands store in their soils? Insights from the CarboGrass Project
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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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CGIAR EMD Ismahane Elouafi discusses food security and climate solutions on Agro América
04.10.24Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR's Executive Managing Director, joins Gabriel Estrela on this week’s episod…
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Food security leader calls for women's voices in convenings
04.10.24From aspiring fighter pilot to a powerful food systems leader, Ismahane Elouafi impacts the globe…
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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
30.11.22-
Food security
Africa is in a race against time on food security and the stakes could not…
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Claudia Sadoff on Transforming Food Systems - Devex COPcast
18.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of a series of COP27 podcasts, CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Claudia Sadoff, sat down…
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COVID-19’s impact on China’s small and medium-sized businesses
17.03.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Nov. 2019 in Hubei Province, China, business activity in the…
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What’s next for CGIAR
13.03.20-
Food security
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Health
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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Tackling the root causes of gender inequality through research (Modern Ghana)Â
13.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
By Clara Ceravolo, Ilaria Sisto, Lauren Whitehead, Matthew Walsham, Morane Verhoeven, and Shalini R…
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As COVID-19 spreads, no major concern for global food security yet
12.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread rapidly. So far, more than 116,000 cases and o…
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This 18th century sketch might be the map to our agro-ecological transformation
11.03.20To tackle today’s planetary-scale challenges of biodiversity loss and chemical pollution, tame sol…
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Ethiopia has a Nobel Prize and a fast-growing economy. Can it also gain a food secure future?
11.03.20Ethiopia is now Africa’s fastest-growing economy, and this week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is rece…
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Study shows high-iron beans improve women’s physical performance
10.03.20-
Nutrition
Iron-biofortified beans improved iron status and physical performance of iron-deficient Rwandan wome…
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Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya's future
10.03.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
About 8.3 million people living in Kenya’s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically…
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The Independent: Unless we empower women farmers, we may not have enough to feed the planet
09.03.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
In an opinion piece in The Independent, IWMI Director General Claudia Sadoff says "Achieving greater…
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For a food system at risk, women are key yet often overlooked
08.03.20-
Gender equality
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, and the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declara…
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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Change in carbon stock in soils currently underestimated, recent study shows
05.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The increase and decrease of soil carbon depend on how it is assessed. Nairobi, Kenya,…
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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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MEDIA ADVISORY | ASEAN-Swiss partnership on social forestry: What has been achieved?
27.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
JAKARTA (Feb. 26, 2020) – Throughout Southeast Asia, new laws introduced to support social forestr…
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