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Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by ICARDA and ICRISAT scientists which will facilitate the breeding of more climate-smart, disease-tolerant chickpea crop varieties for better food security. Food legumes are essential for nutrition security. Chickpea, ICARDA staple crop and the third most-produced food legume worldwide, especially in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, is

CGIAR-sponsored Nutrition for Growth side event grapples with challenges to provide nutritious diets for everyone, everywhere At the United Nations Food System Summit this past September, nutrition was identified as a key action area deserving renewed focus as the world continues its pursuit of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. While Zero Hunger is still a primary objective, focusing on this end alone is not enough. Now, as the world prepares for

A quiet transformation is underway at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO). New facilities are being developed, flows of digital data are coming online, ways of working and partnerships are being redrawn. All this, as part of a new way of investing in crop breeding research in a bid to finally end hunger in the region. Over the last

Public breeding is undergoing a slow transformation as it adopts better, faster, more modern technologies and practices – all with the goal of ensuring farmers get the crop varieties they need.  With an improvement plan that focuses on centralized and modernized breeding, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is setting the pace for CGIAR. IRRI has been making big advances, including designing

Not many organizations can claim to have saved a billion lives. But CGIAR’s crop breeding work has been credited with doing just that. Its research catalyzed the Green Revolution by developing high-yielding wheat and rice varieties, mostly for Asia, where starvation loomed. But today’s challenges cannot be overcome using the same approaches that delivered those life-saving varieties. Poverty, food and nutrition

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

The new CGIAR Portfolio will be presented on October 10-11 in Bogotá. The Research Initiatives focus on emission mitigation, sustainable livestock, positive solutions for nature, excellence in agronomy, breeding, genebanks, plant health, and policies on these issues.  Bogotá, Colombia, October 5, 2022 – Today, when the effects of climate change are already evident, science seeks to find ways for the world

Minister of Agricultural Development and Irrigation, Patricia Ocampo, applauds international support. October 13, 2022, Lima, Peru – Participants in a high-level meeting in Lima today will launch a series of multi-million-dollar research-for-development initiatives aimed at improving incomes and food security in some of Peru’s poorest communities, among other achievements. Representatives of CGIAR, the world’s biggest agricultural research network, will present