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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
16.05.25-
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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Landmark Agreement Paves the Way for Sustainable Durum Wheat Production and Livelihood Improvement in Ethiopia
12.12.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
The agreement: The collaboration between the two farmers cooperatives - Chefe Donsa Community Seed B…
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Study: Women-led Groups Were Key To Food Security During Covid-19 In India
11.12.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In a new paper, “Applying the six-dimensional food security framework to examine a fresh fruit an…
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World Bank commits $100 million to ‘climate-smart’ agriculture in Africa at COP28
08.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Through the AICCRA project, scientists, and researchers from across CGIAR— the world’s largest p…
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Enhancing Agricultural Practices: Insights from the Impact of AICCRA’s Kenya Agri Hackathon on Post-Harvest Losses
08.12.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Post-harvest losses pose a significant challenge to agriculture in Kenya, with statistics revealing …
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What’s Cooking at COP28: Assessing novel alternatives to animal-sourced foods
08.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Today’s consumers have access to increasingly more novel meat and dairy alternatives. These foods,…
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Post-Harvest Loss Solutions Hackathon: Climate-Smart, Gender-Responsive Solutions in Eastern and Southern Africa
06.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the heart of Eastern and Southern Africa, where agricultural abundance meets persistent challenge…
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Climate Security Case Study: Climate Security Observatory
30.11.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
These are the questions addressed by the Climate Security Observatory (CSO): a decision support tool…
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Snapshots of Success: Conserving Cuba’s Agrobiodiversity
30.11.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
What does agrobiodiversity look like in Cuba? For over 10 years, Alliance researchers and partners…
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Shamba Shape Up: The TV show reshaping agriculture in East Africa
30.11.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Together, they have developed a highly successful program that creates positive change for farmers, …
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Unveiling Innovations Co-designed with Farmers for Mixed Cropping: A Field Day in Daasuyili, Ghana
29.11.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
As a co-design and participatory action research (PAR) platform, the field day interfaced diverse st…
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Sowing Seeds of Change, Joining Forces to build resilience in agricultural communities by integrating climate, peace, and security
27.11.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The pool of expertise also included the technical support of the Jomo Kenyatta University of…
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Venture-Out Events: Behind the Venture Studio Model with Wageningen’s StartLife
27.11.23What challenges do scientists face in bringing their innovations to market? The unique nature of…
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A Rainy Community Success: The Observer Networks in Choluteca and El Paraíso, Honduras: What began as a funded development project has grown into a network of passionate rain observers
27.11.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In many parts of the world, weather forecasting is a valuable resource, whether for farmers…
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Demo Day “Sustainable Cacao Innovation Challenge”
25.11.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Sustainable Cacao Innovation Challenge was launched in August 2023 to provide knowledge and oppo…
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Cultivating science-based solutions at scale: The pledge of the Ethiopian Extension Service on fostering the transition from blanket to tailored fertilizer recommendations for smallholder farmers
24.11.23To enhance wheat production and productivity, the Ethiopian Extension Service, with the support of t…
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Current practices and institutional arrangements in breeding by CGIAR – NARS
21.11.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Work Package 5 of the initiative is carrying out a qualitative study with CGIAR and…
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Hack4DigitalVillages Innovation Challenge: Co-creating and prototyping solutions to address critical agricultural challenges of the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan
20.11.23CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform (A4IP) join forces with the UN Food and Agriculture Organizatio…
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Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT – World Economic Forum agreement focuses on the Food Action Alliance and Food Innovation Hubs, starting in Latin America
20.11.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT signed an agreement with the World Economic Forum tha…
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