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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-
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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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ICRISAT Revolutionizes Crop Testing with Portable Technology
02.05.24-
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Researchers at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) are le…
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Read our 2023 annual report
01.05.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
The CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiF…
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Addressing the global, life-long health impacts of zinc deficiency: A call to action
25.04.24-
Nutrition
BY NICOLA M. LOWE, ANDREW G. HALL, MARTIN R. BROADLEY, JEN FOLEY, ERICK BOY, AND…
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Study: Human milk banks offer a promising option to address sub-Saharan Africa’s staggeringly high neonatal mortality rates
23.04.24-
Nutrition
BY TADDESE ZERFU OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Global child survival rates have risen since 1990…
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Full diplomatic status to boost research and food security efforts in Zambia
22.04.24-
Food security
In a major development that will change the research and food security efforts of IITA–CGIAR in …
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Enhancing food safety by adopting postharvest technologies: A case study of PICS bags in Tanzania
22.04.24-
Food security
Postharvest loss has been a significant threat to achieving food security and safety in most…
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Strengthening agricultural development in Cameroon through stakeholder engagement
22.04.24-
Food security
IITA Director General and CGIAR Regional Director for Continental Africa, Dr Simeon Ehui, met wi…
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Accelerating climate action by learning from gender mainstreaming
22.04.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
In a new paper, Greener through gender: What climate mainstreaming can learn from gender mainstreami…
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Joint comprehensive strategies to combat banana bunchy top outbreak in East Africa
22.04.24-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The invasion of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV), the causal agent of the lethal bunchy…
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Lagos Food Fair features products from YAS beneficiaries
22.04.24-
Food security
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Youth
The Youth in Agribusiness: Enabling scaling of innovative technologies for sustainable food solution…
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Methane is a big deal for climate change, but forages can help us reduce emissions
22.04.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Methane (CH4) is an often-overlooked greenhouse gas (GHG) that is much more powerful than carbon…
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Soft launch of CGIAR Breeding Analytics Pipeline enables complex quantitative genetic analyses for CGIAR crop breeders
18.04.24-
Big data
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Nutrition, health & food security
In late 2023, Breeding Resources Initiative tasked a fast-track team of biometricians with the devel…
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Heifer International and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Agree to Strengthen Collaboration, Empowering Smallholder Farmers
18.04.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
The two organizations have worked together since 2014 to develop sustainable agricultural practices…
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IRRI, PhilRice launch drone protocols to boost rice farming in the Philippines
18.04.24-
Food security
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (17 April 2024) – Aimed at leveraging the power of drone technology…
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Transforming agriculture in Kenya: ENABLE TAAT at the Kilimo Biashara Expo 2024
17.04.24-
Food security
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
During the 2024 Kilimo Biashara Expo, the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT…
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Amplifying TAAT’s impact: Driving agricultural advancements through the Demand Strategy Stakeholder workshop in Abuja
17.04.24-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In March, stakeholders from various sectors converged in Abuja, Nigeria, for the Demand Strategy Sta…
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Zero Hunger Project shines at FGN-IFAD exhibition: Celebrating agricultural innovation and impact
17.04.24-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a remarkable display of agricultural innovation and achievement, the Federal Government of Nigeri…
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IITA and CGIAR launch agricultural research hub in Zambia
17.04.24-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lusaka, April 4 – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) announced today that …
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