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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Vania Azevedo: A Fighter for Plant Genetic Resources
CGIAR Genebank Platform08.03.19-
Biodiversity
ICRISAT’s Head of Genebank discusses her past work and shares her thoughts on the role…
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Collaborating to innovate for India’s agriculture research: ICAR – ICRISAT finalize 5-year action plan
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)31.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Improved crops, nutrition-sensitive agriculture on the cards A five-year plan for Indian agricultu…
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Sehgal Foundation and Smart Food align to intensify efforts
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.01.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Sehgal Foundation is aligning some big initiatives with the Smart Food Endowment Fund to help crea…
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Misuse of the term ‘empowerment’ in daily conversations
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.01.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a world where ‘gender integration’ or ‘gender mainstreaming’ is prioritised and practic…
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Can we beat the fall armyworm with lessons from India’s groundnut battle of the 80s?
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)25.01.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the mid-80s, scientists battling the pest Spolit (Spodoptera litura) in India chanced upon an u…
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Extended partnership to deliver high-yielding, disease-resistant finger millet to farmers
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)23.01.19-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Farmers can soon access finger millet varieties that not only withstand drought but are also…
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Africa and Asia come together to lead a global initiative to diversify staples
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)18.01.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leading agriculture organizations from Africa and Asia have joined hands to take on a bold…
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Now, get critical seed data in one click
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)18.01.19-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A modern digital seed ‘catalog’ and seed ‘roadmap’ tool is now available for information abo…
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Two-fold increase in varietal adoption in seven years – a chickpea tale from Ethiopia
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)18.01.19-
Food security
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Adoption of improved chickpea varieties increased more than two-fold in seven years, shows data from…
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Three new farmer-preferred sorghum varieties released in Malawi
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)18.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Three new improved sorghum varieties have been released in Malawi after extensive trials. Pilira 3,…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)04.01.19-
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)04.01.19-
Biodiversity
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ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.12.18-
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Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
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Three new UN resolutions focus on plant health, pulses and food safety
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
The United Nations General Assembly has declared two new ‘International Days’ and one ‘Year’…
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Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)24.12.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and…
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Making smallholder farmers more secure: ICRISAT’s contribution to climate research
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)11.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As nations from around the globe debate the impacts of climate change and discuss sustainable…
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Three weeks to make tastier, healthier crop residues for animal feed
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)23.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A 21-day treatment process to improve the nutritive value as well as taste of crop…
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How ICRISAT saved a lifetime’s worth of water over just three years
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)23.11.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT-Patancheru has been saving over 100,000 liters of potable water every day since 2015. That…
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