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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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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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Better farming practices key to combating desertification and drought
15.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Combating desertification and drought is critical, but focusing on the bigger challenge of unsustain…
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CIMMYT director general visits India
13.06.18-
Food security
Last week director general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Martin …
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Agricultural researchers boost fight against malnutrition with staple crops
12.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Breeding research by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is generating not…
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Hunger busters: Ed Mabaya on improved seeds in Africa
24.05.18-
Food security
At a recent TEDx event in Johannesburg, South Africa, agricultural economist and development practit…
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Preserving native maize and culture in Mexico
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
These indigenous farmers are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over genera…
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Breaking Ground: Lorena Gonzalez fast-forwards action on hunger using technology
17.05.18-
Big data
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Food security
Intrigued by the unique relationship food crops have to their geographical environment, Lorena Gonza…
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CIMMYT Board of Trustees: Out of the Boardroom and into the field
16.05.18-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)’s Board of Trustees visits the Cente…
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How collaboration can help grow and transform agriculture in Africa
16.05.18It’s been four years since African leaders met in Equatorial Guinea to commit themselves to…
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Moving ‘impact’ beyond a buzzword in international development
03.05.18-
Food security
In the arena of international development, impact is the name of the game. Researchers, practitioner…
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Fourth international workshop on farming system design in south Asia
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The fourth international workshop on “Science of Farming Systems: Moving from Prototyping to Model…
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Bearish headlines overstate the extent of available global wheat stocks, analysts say
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The declining area sown to wheat worldwide, together with stockpiling by China, is masking significa…
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Young women scientists who will galvanize global wheat research
28.03.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
As more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern…
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Breaking ground: Mike Olsen uses new technology to improve farmer’s yields
12.03.18-
Food security
Global challenges to agriculture such as climate change, crop diseases and pests mean that the…
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CIMMYT promotes gender awareness in agriculture research and development in Ethiopia
07.03.18-
Gender equality
Gender awareness and gender-sensitive approaches are slowly spreading into agricultural research, ex…
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First zinc maize variety launched to reduce malnutrition in Colombia
01.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
A new zinc-enriched maize variety was released in Colombia on February 23 to help combat…
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China’s vice premier ushers in new era of agricultural collaboration
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new collaborative program promising to train Chinese Ph.D. and postdoctoral students annually at t…
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