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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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CGIAR’s new flagship report will help decision-makers transform food, land, and water systems
17.06.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the world faces unprecedented environmental and social challenges, CGIAR—the global partnership…
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CGIAR and CIFOR-ICRAF agree to strengthened collaboration
12.06.24To address the pressing challenges facing global food systems, CGIAR and The Center for Internationa…
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CGIAR and Brazil forge new partnership to strengthen food system resilience
12.06.24In a move to enhance agricultural resilience, the Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (Embrap…
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Famine in Gaza
18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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Scaling opportunities in Molecular Biology to improve the agricultural sector
24.07.23The IITA Bioscience Center recently organized a five-day hands-on training in Ibadan to strengthen…
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Healthy living: Enabling a low glycemic diet
24.07.23About 72% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa has increased their dietary intake of carbohydrate…
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Yam multiplication plots established across five regions
24.07.23Efforts to encourage the adoption and expand diffusion of the newly released yam varieties across…
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Aflasafe technology showcased at international, high-level biocontrol events
24.07.23IITA’s internationally recognized Aflasafe Initiative has made significant strides in developing a…
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Yam investors trained on seed yam tuber production at IITA
17.07.23The IITA Capacity Development Office (CDO) and Yam Improvement Program (YIP) organized training on…
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Towards gender transformative interventions in the Muhogo Bora cassava seed system project in Tanzania
17.07.23Achieving the gender equality commitment in agrifood systems would require deliberate and bold actio…
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Value addition key to Africa’s food and nutrition security
17.07.23An agribusiness boot camp was organized recently to improve the learning skills of the agribusiness…
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HER+ research on norms limiting women’s resilience to climate change
17.07.23In the recently concluded 2023 Development Studies Association (DSA) annual conference, IITA Pos…
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Scaling agriculture science and innovation for a climate-resilient future in Africa
13.07.23Nowhere does the challenge of climate change manifest more acutely and urgently than in African…
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Yam farmers enjoy newly released varieties from IITA in Nigeria
11.07.23The IITA Yam Improvement Program (YIP) started the distribution of newly released yam varieties re…
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Adopting newly developed cowpea varieties with high-yielding performance
11.07.23In West Africa, particularly Nigeria, few crops play a vital role in food security, one…
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Making the most of homestead farming
11.07.23By March 2023, Grace started selling the spinach in her garden. She made sales of…
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ENABLE-TAAT to explore Somali youth empowerment through agribusiness
03.07.23ENABLE-TAAT and the sorghum commodity compact are exploring partnership opportunities with the gover…
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Taking improved seed production and marketing techniques to community-based seed producers
03.07.23The journey to change Community-Based Seed Producers (CBSPs) to Community-Based Seed Entrepreneurs (…
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IITA-CGIAR research reveals areas to improve Africa’s nutrition
03.07.23Many Africans are malnourished, micronutrient deficient, associated with diet-related non-communicab…
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Engaging aggregators and farmers to deliver quality grain for consumer and seed markets
03.07.23IITA, under the One CGIAR Seed Equal initiative Work Package 2, “Boosting Legume Seed through …
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Cross-sectoral learnings on emerging gender and social norms measures
03.07.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As part of the Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+)…
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Gender scientists trained to leverage social media for better science communication
26.06.23Despite the tremendous volume of work scientists carry out across Africa to address food insecurity…
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