In Uganda, value addition and product development are crucial for enhancing agribusiness competitiveness and sustainability. However, many youths and women in agri-food enterprises face challenges in processing, product formulation, and quality assurance, limiting their ability to meet market standards and scale their businesses.
The IITA–CGIAR in Liberia, through the EU-funded Soils4Liberia Project, successfully concluded a three-day intensive digital data management training for 14 laboratory staff of the University of Liberia (UL) and one representative from the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI), and three representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA).
The Emerald Forest Reserve (EFR), located in Ikoyi-Osun, Osun State, Nigeria, has been officially designated a global Key Biodiversity Area (KBA), following years of rigorous, IITA Forest Center–led scientific research and biodiversity monitoring contribution.
Understanding how food demand responds to income and price changes is essential for anticipating global food needs and expected consumption patterns, and for designing effective food policies.
As the world marks 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer, CGIAR is positioning its science, innovation, and partnerships at the centre of the global agenda. Vivian Atakos, Global Engagement and Policy Lead, spoke with Nicoline de Haan, Director of the CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion Accelerator, to unpack what the Year entails and how CGIAR colleagues and partners can engage.
In many agricultural markets, the limited ability to measure product quality at the source and trace it through the supply chain remains a key barrier to improvement, as the absence of reliable quality information blunts incentives for upstream actors to invest in better practices
With nearly 40,000 captive wild animals raised across hundreds of small-scale facilities, Thai Nguyen Province in northern Vietnam is emerging as a critical frontline for preventing zoonotic disease outbreaks.
We mourn the passing of our colleague Salma Kadry, who always put people first in her work as a climate, peace, and security specialist with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT and CGIAR. Her contributions were fundamental in representing the Middle East and North Africa in climate security science and policy.