News
Featured news
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
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…
Read more
Filters
-
Informal trade: Insights from Phansidewa at the India-Bangladesh border
22.09.23BY NISHA TANEJA, SANJANA JOSHI, SANYA DUA, ABUL KAMAR, SUNIL SAROJ, DEVESH ROY, AND MAMATA…
Read more -
Cherishing crop diversity in a sea of sugarcane: inauguration of Uganda’s newest community seed bank
22.09.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Smallholder farmers here are largely immigrants from the West Nile region of Uganda who came…
Read more -
-
Going with the flow, or fighting for it?
22.09.23The Letaba River Basin in Southern Africa holds great spiritual significance for indigenous communit…
Read more -
CIMMYT takes part in the 113th edition of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show
21.09.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
CIMMYT scientists, researchers and subject experts participated in the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (Z…
Read more -
-
Avanzar2030 workshop: Synthesizing evidence on sustainable agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
21.09.23BY ELSA OLIVETTI AND BRIAN MCNAMARA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Food systems in Latin America…
Read more -
A guiding framework to boost Science and Practice of scaling innovation and three new roles to drive it
21.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
-
Nutrition, health & food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scaling innovation is becoming increasingly important in the world of agricultural research for deve…
Read more -
-
Smallholder farmers in Kongwa District, Tanzania, use the iSAT advisory tool to better manage climate risks
21.09.23-
Adaptation
-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
To help smallholder farmers make better agricultural decisions and reduce the negative effects of cl…
Read more -
-
New study reveals alarming impact of food inflation on child undernutrition in low and middle-income countries
20.09.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
A new study published in Nature Communications sheds light on the critical relationship between fo…
Read more -
-
Kenya’s new urban school meal plan is ambitious – and could offer lessons for scaling up
20.09.23BY ELISHEBA KIRU AND AULO GELLI OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 More than 250,000 children in public…
Read more -
RiceMoRe System revolutionizes rice production monitoring and reporting in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta
20.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Mitigation
The Mekong River Delta is undergoing a remarkable digital transformation in the region’s rice prod…
Read more -
-
IRRI scientist honored with Borlaug Field Award for her work on farmer engagement and empowerment
20.09.23-
Food security
LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES (September 19, 2023) – International Rice Research Institute (IRRI…
Read more -
-
Resilient agriculture: A pathway to achieving sustainable food systems
19.09.23The world has been dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change such…
Read more -
IITA and Tokyo University to intensify partnership addressing West African agricultural challenges
19.09.23From 24 to 31 August, IITA accommodated four representatives from the Tokyo University of Agricul…
Read more -
Showcasing banana hybrids at the 2023 Tanzania International Agricultural Trade Show
19.09.23IITA, in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AI…
Read more -
Central African Republic cassava value chain receives support from IITA-TAAT Cassava Compact
19.09.23IITA and the PADECAS project organized capacity-building workshops in Central African Republic from…
Read more -
ATA annual meeting highlights production support in the cassava value chain
19.09.23The government-funded Agricultural Transformation Agenda program in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Read more -
Exploring promising opportunities between Argentina and IITA
19.09.23In a promising step towards collaboration, an IITA delegation visited the Embassy of Argentina in …
Read more -
Peruvian Study Finds Biofortified Potatoes Can Deliver More than 50% of Daily Iron Requirements for Women
19.09.23For nearly two decades, researchers at the Lima-based International Potato Center (CIP) have been wo…
Read more