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IITA holds Climate Smart Agriculture awareness session for local-level policymakers

As part of efforts to ensure sustainability and scalability of efforts to build capacity in…

CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize

Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…

Farmers’ Hubs for quality seed and input supply and market linkage launched in Nigeria

The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) launched 13 Farmers’ Hubs to service 13…

Public and private sector scientists pick pearl millet material for their breeding programs

Public and private sector scientists visited 20,000 pearl millet breeding plots at ICRISAT this week…

Lessons Learned from the CGIAR Research Programs and What’s Coming Up Next

More than ever before, remote evaluations and evaluation approaches that require a rapid and cost-ef…

Vietnam’s MARD minister calls on promotion of climate-smart practices to reduce GHG emissions at COP26’s Ministerial Dialogue

26 April 2021 - Mr. Le Minh Hoan, Leader of Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and…

Solar for all: Enhancing access to affordable and sustainable solar-powered irrigation

Around 2 billion people globally are food insecure. Yet strategies to reduce chronic hunger and…

Global Food Policy Report 2021: The challenges of food system transformation

BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Repor…

Community participation: greening the Aba Gerima watershed in Ethiopia

The rolling plains of the Aba Gerima watershed cover the upper portion of Lake Tana…

Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali

BY KATRINA KOSEC AND EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA How can women’s voices be amplified in a situation…

Digitization equipment set to accelerate Kenya’s breeding programs

Last month, the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) platform handed over digitization equipment to th…

Supporting the Food System Dialogues for Honduras ahead of UN summit

We have never had a better understanding of the need to transform food systems. The…

Future Thinking for Present Decisions: On the Importance of Foresight and Trade-Off Analyses in Agricultural Research Portfolio and Investment Plans

The Global Food Systems 5050 Initiative: Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality amid food systems transformation

BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Women play critical roles in food systems—as producers, processors, traders, cons…

Smallscale composting can help put the brakes on youth immigration in Niger

A small group of youth from Niger learned a fast-paced composting technique. Their learnings are…

Why youth here aspire to be farmers, the case of Burkina Faso

Jobs that are intellectually satisfying, economically rewarding and low on drudgery are the biggest …

Co-creating a Theory of Change for the Genebank Initiative

A new online process that enabled the Initiative Design Team (IDT) with a large group…

ILRI and partners call for greater investment in global animal health in the fight against pandemics

To mark World Veterinary Day 2021, the International Livestock Research Institute joined a number of…