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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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Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were…
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Steering the seed revolving fund initiative to meet growing farmers’ demand for certified seed
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Health
Adoption of new varieties can never be successful until efficient seed delivery systems are in…
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A new organization born from the merger of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
29.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new organization born from the merger of the CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH (CIFOR)…
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An in-depth look at ICRISAT’s engagement in West Africa
27.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Governing Board meeting in Senegal: The strategic plan for 2020 and beyond As members of…
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How do we estimate the consequences of global inaction on genetic diversity conservation, exchange, and use?
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
Target 2.5 of the SDGs calls for maintaining “the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants…
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How do we estimate the consequences of global inaction on genetic diversity conservation, exchange, and use?
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for maintaining “the genetic diversi…
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An urgent need to put forests on the global agenda
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Open letter From Marc Palahí, Director EFI, Robert Nasi, Director General CIFOR and Tony Simons,…
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Farmers’ demand for labor-friendly chickpea bears fruit: 2 more machine-harvestable varieties released in India
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
For the first time, the Central Varietal Release Committee (CVRC) of India has released two…
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Back from the brink of extinction
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
Long-term efforts to restore and conserve a collection of Israeli and Palestinian wheat landraces (I…
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Breeding future-ready crops: Incorporating key traits in breeding programs via product profiles
06.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Developing crop varieties that meet the needs of all stakeholders, with farmers, value chain actors…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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Understanding Nagoya
19.08.19-
Biodiversity
The Nagoya Protocol provides concrete mechanisms for countries providing plant genetic resources to …
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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“We are receiving a free subsidy from nature, but it will not continue indefinitely” – Louis Verchot
12.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Many findings are important for us and for policy makers around the world. The report…
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Artificial intelligence helps banana growers protect the world’s most favorite fruit
12.08.19-
Biodiversity
Using artificial intelligence, scientists created an easy-to-use tool to detect banana diseases and …
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Heat-tolerant wild beans tapped to breed commercial beans for hotter climates
09.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Using the genetic traits of a wild bean species, CIAT and the Crop Trust are…
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Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Crop Trust, the indicator pro…
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