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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
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Big data
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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The Palm Tree’s Silent Struggle and Why It Matters
08.05.25May 12 marks the International Day of Plant Health, a timely reminder that plants are…
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An open letter to scientists: What policymakers need from you
08.05.25CGIAR’s new Insight to Impact Policy Champions Network recently met to deliberate on what needs…
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How Climate-Resilient Short-Duration Cold-Tolerant Rice is Securing Farmers’ Livelihood in Haor Region of Bangladesh
08.05.25by Nusrat Jahan, Muhiuddin Faruquee, and Mohammad Rafiqul Islam The Haor wetlands in northeastern Ba…
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What to expect from Breeding for Tomorrow
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR launches a new Science Program to develop and deliver climate-resilient, market-preferred, and…
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Collaborative action research at the heart of climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Science, innovation and local knowledge unite to transform agriculture in Latin America and the Cari…
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Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity
07.05.25By Emily Myers, Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Flor Paz, Chiara Brunelli, an…
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UPLB, KOICA, and IRRI Celebrate Completion of Main Structure of Advanced Genomics Research Center (AGRC)
07.05.25LOS BAÑOS, Philippines (22 April 2025) – The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB),…
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Tanzanian farmers spotlight climate-resilient beans at Hanang Field Day
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Farmers in Hanang, Tanzania, explored climate-resilient bean varieties during a field day hosted by …
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Scaling Zinc-Biofortified Rice to Fight Against Stunting in Indonesia
07.05.25By Untung Susanto1, Hasil Sembiring2, Russell Reinke2, and B.P. Mallikarjuna Swamy2 1National Resear…
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New U.S. tariff policies: What’s at stake for sub-Saharan Africa?
06.05.25By Valeria Piñeiro, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, Fousseini Traoré, and Joseph Glauber May 6, 2025 T…
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The world is nowhere near the goal of zero hunger by 2030 amid uncertain global development financing. What now?
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Food security
By James Allen IV May 5, 2025 In the wake of a series of recent crises…
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Nigeria’s first multiple-stress resilient maize hybrid combining tolerance to fall armyworm and drought, with resistance to Striga hermonthica
05.05.25In collaboration with Nigeria’s Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), the International Insti…
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Bayelsa State Governor visits IITA, express commitment to youth and agricultural development
05.05.25IITA–CGIAR welcomed Bayelsa State’s Executive Governor, His Excellency Douye Diri, to its hea…
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Strengthening Rwanda’s seed traceability and certification processes: IITA and partners build seed inspectors’ capacities
05.05.25Delegates from Côte d’Ivoire’s Council of Coffee and Cocoa (CCC) and the Centre National de …
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IITA and Bread for the World explore strategic partnership to tackle global food insecurity and malnutrition
05.05.25Esq. Abiola Afolayan, the Bread for the World Director Policy and Research Institute, embarked on…
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CGIAR and AARIEIs launch strategic partnership framework to drive agricultural transformation in Africa
05.05.25At a pivotal side event titled “Strengthening CGIAR Engagement with African Agricultural Researc…
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Advancing bio-fortification for global nutrition – A collaborative dialogue
05.05.25Poor-quality diets remain the leading cause of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases globally. …
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Research and partnership key to agricultural transformation: Highlights from CGIAR Science Week side event
05.05.25During the first Side Event at the recent CGIAR Science Week held in Nairobi, Kenya, thought leade…
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