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The International Livestock Research Institute-led Asian Chicken Genetic Gains project is improving smallholder chicken production by increasing access to locally acceptable, adapted and highly productive chickens in Southeast Asia. Launched in May 2021, the project is making available new and proven technologies to increase chicken production in Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the project team has made several

In the past 29 years, the Germplasm Utilization Value Added (GUVA) project ihave delivered six released varieties that are resistant to some of the major diseases and pests to ensure high-yield stability in the tropics. These helped expand the cultivation area for temperate japonica to tropical regions. GUVA’s future work will focus more on highly efficient molecular breeding for yield

Beirut, Lebanon – July 2022: The inception meeting of the CGIAR Initiative From Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia, and North Africa (F2R-CWANA) – Lebanon and Syria will take place to showcase CGIAR’s significant advances in agricultural research-for-development (R4D) and plans for this region. F2R-CWANA is one of CGIAR’s new global portfolio of 33 initiatives developed by CGIAR and its partners

National, regional, and international partners at the CGIAR Plant Health and Rapid Response to Protect Food Security and Livelihoods Initiative launch in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 12, 2022. (Credit: Susan Otieno/CIMMYT) CGIAR together with national, regional, and international partners kicked off the Plant Health and Rapid Response to Protect Food Security and Livelihoods Initiative also known as the Plant Health

#ResearchSpotlight Over the past three decades, the Philippines and Bangladesh have made huge investments in the development of improved rice varieties. The economic returns to these investments in rice research were significant. In this study, published recently in the peer-reviewed journal Global Food Security, researchers suggest that IRRI and national partners should continue investing in rice R&D, especially to develop

Evidence-based irrigation scaling strategies co-developed by IWMI aim to accelerate innovation in agricultural value chains. The post Cultivating innovation in Africa’s food systems first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

Food prices were near record highs even before the Ukraine war started, says research center (CNBC International) CNBC International produced a video featuring senior research fellow Joseph Glauber. Glauber discussed the tight markets (due to decreased stockpiles and high food prices) that were already in place prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The markets are very much focused on the Northern Hemisphere crops

Reducing the amount of spilled milk caused by a toxin (Michigan State University) Michigan State University published an article stating that researchers at Michigan State University have won a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to determine what level of aflatoxin M1 is safe to ingest from milk to prevent unnecessary waste. Aflatoxins are a group of toxins produced by