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Where can the world’s most vulnerable populations live safely and sustainably? Across the world, rising temperatures, degraded environments and weak governance are putting pressures on communities that depend on local land, water and institutions for survival. The Climate Complexity Group at the Alliance is developing a Habitability Index to answer this question. The index combines environmental, social, and governance data

CGIAR Executive Managing Director Ismahane Elouafi explains in an article in The National ahead of COP30,  how more efficient food systems can increase food production while lowering emissions and safeguarding the environment. READ THE ARTICLE HERE

By Glenn Concepcion  “Science begins with curiosity — a seed that grows when we start asking why.”– Tiozon, 2025 You can often find Dr. Rhowell Tiozon, Jr., a young molecular biologist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), hard at work studying the intricate biochemistry of plants, and observing how different rice molecules interact with the human body. Recently, he

In Mexico, a Crops to End Hunger project has been completed to develop new elite parental lines of wheat with increased resistance to diseases. These lines can be used in breeding programs to quickly introduce specific, targeted traits, like ready-made ingredients in a larger recipe. “Deep scoping rapid-cycle recurrent genomic selection to accelerate the breeding pipeline for quantitative disease resistance

Lasting progress on gender equality requires more than simply reaching or benefiting women. It demands transforming the very systems that shape their access to land and resources. Perspectives from the 2025 CGIAR GENDER Conference session co-hosted by the Alliance. An initiative to address the norms underpinning women’s rights Over the last five years, IFAD’s global initiative “Securing Women’s Land and Resource

Climate change impacts are not gender-neutral and vary across population groups. Women, children, minority groups, refugees, the elderly, and people with disabilities face differential vulnerabilities linked to resilience and adaptive capacity to diverse shocks and hazards.

QTL profiling is now integrated into the EBS Platform’s MDA module. Teams across CGIAR research Centers continue to collaborate to enhance the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), the breeding data management platform developed and maintained by CGIAR. This joint effort ensures that EBS evolves with user needs and provides crop-agnostic support to breeders across 20 crops worldwide. EBS is actively developing

MOROGORO, Tanzania (8 October 2025) — Elite rice lines are outperforming the current popular varieties across Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), reaching up to 7.5 tons per hectare in trials, with next-generation lines poised to hit 9 tons. These results were presented during the ESA 2025 Advancement Meeting held by OneIRRI- NARES Network for East and Southern Africa, where the