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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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CGIAR Scientists and Partners Discuss Multiple-Win Solutions to the Global Food Crisis at Borlaug Dialogue 2022
31.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year’s Borlaug Dialogue, held under the theme of “Feeding a Fragile World,” focused on…
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CGIAR Initiative to Help Develop Low-Emission Food Systems, Key to Meeting Global Climate Targets
28.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The CGIAR Research Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems, Mitigate+, will help low- and middle-inc…
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Bridging data gaps in pastoral areas in Kenya through digital connectivity
28.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Pastoralist communities in northern Kenya are among the most neglected people in the country, suffer…
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Radical action is needed for the climate. This means transforming the way we do science
15.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Incremental change has not slowed the pace of the climate crisis. For researchers working with…
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Excellence in Agronomy Initiative commences in Africa
01.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Excellence in Agronomy for Sustainable Intensification and Climate Change Adaptation Initiative …
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AfricaRice scientist wins 21st Century Hope Prize of Japan’s Niigata International Food Award
04.08.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dr Kazuki Saito, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Agronomist, has been named the 21st Century Hope…
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ICARDA at the International Exhibition and Forum on Afforestation Technologies
17.07.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – last May, Dr. Mounir Louhaichi, ICARDA's Research Team Leader of Rangeland…
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Wheat versus heat
20.05.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Wheat leaves showing symptoms of heat stress. (Photo: CIMMYT) Across South Asia, including major whe…
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Less water for better crops
12.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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In India, nearly one-sixth of groundwater reserves has been overexploited and almost one-fifth of th…
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GENDER SCIENTIST DR. DINA NAJJAR DISCUSSES DRYLANDS AND THE IPCC REPORT
26.08.21-
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Gender equality
In a mini-Q&A series published this week and the next, we spoke to several ICARDA…
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Cookbook celebrates aquatic foods for life and livelihoods in Timor-Leste
08.06.21-
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Since achieving its independence 20 years ago, Timor-Leste has set out to forge a cohesive…
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Jordan rehabilitates its vast degraded Badia region at the micro scale
04.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Jordan's arid and degraded Badia region covers nearly 90% of the country's area and hosts…
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Old knowledge, new techniques – working together to rehabilitate degraded farmland
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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For World Environment Day, Mira Haddad, ICARDA’s Associate Researcher in Spatio-temporal Assessme…
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The Agricultural Goldmines of Deserts
21.04.21-
Biodiversity
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Covering about one-third of global land surface, deserts are characterized by little to no rainfall,…
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How CGIAR is prioritising gender perspectives into climate security
25.03.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Frans Schapendonk and Giulia Caroli. Projects that support greater food security must look at…
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Climate security demands a gender lens for an equal future
08.03.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Interview with Giulia Caroli, Visiting Researcher at CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security by Nina de Ayala…
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Rejuvenation in Bundelkhand: How an upland watershed got its groundwater back
19.02.21-
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The world of water management is replete with stories about traditional systems that break down,…
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Encouraging entrepreneurship with mobile grinders and seed cleaning machines
29.12.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICARDA and its national partners in Tunisia are promoting entrepreneurship and rural businesses thro…
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