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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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Harnessing crop breeding data: AfricaRice transitions to Enterprise Breeding System
20.04.23-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you visit AfricaRice breeding stations in Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Nigeria and Senegal, you mi…
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Genetic gains in Uganda maize breeding are strong – and heading for improvement
17.04.23-
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In the face of complex climate risks in Uganda, maize breeders are ensuring smallholder farmers…
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Impressed with ChatGPT's agricultural knowledge? CGIAR's open access effort (probably)* enabled it.
14.03.23-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Featured image: "A group of researchers with diverse background amazed at chatgpt response on comput…
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CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform and Banca Sella Group Announce Partnership
06.03.23-
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AG 4 Future Food Accelerator calls on innovation teams from around the world that can…
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Harnessing aquatic foods to tackle multiple global challenges
23.02.23-
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Nutrition, health & food security
Policymakers addressing food system challenges now have access to new analyses and online tools that…
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Updates from Breeding Resources: 2023
20.02.23-
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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CGIAR Breeding Resource Initiative (led and managed by Genetic Innovation’s Breeding Research Serv…
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FishBase: An increasingly valuable resource
03.02.23-
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What do researchers in fields as diverse as agriculture, mathematics, economics, psychology and even…
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Five strides forward for CGIAR crop breeding resources and services
24.01.23-
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Nutrition, health & food security
Sitting at the cutting edge of science, the crop breeding domain has been improving and…
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Breathing new life into FishBase and SeaLifeBase
16.01.23-
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There’s a website that’s a bit like a time machine – old-school text, no dynamic…
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On the ground at COP27
16.12.22-
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Key takeaways on the outcomes of COP27 from the Accelerate for Impact Platform: A spotlight…
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Five ways new equipment and training help deliver crop breeding impacts
11.12.22-
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If public crop breeding is to reach its lofty goals, breeders and breeding stations need to…
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New analysis finds pandemic didn’t dampen deforestation
28.11.22-
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Despite the massive upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation globally pro…
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The democratization of innovation
15.11.22-
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When the Norwegian Red Cross hired Kristian Wengen and his consulting firm Tinkr to launch…
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AfricaRice Agronomist-Consultant wins 2022 IFA Emerging Scholar Award
11.11.22-
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Jean-Martial Johnson, a trailblazing young researcher who supports the Sustainable Enhancement Produ…
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How innovation ecosystems can enable systemic change of food systems; A Side-Event at the FAO S&I forum
03.11.22-
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The virtual panel “Co-creating responsible innovation ecosystems that enable systemic change of fo…
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‘Farmer-Researchers’ Join Front Line in Testing Crops
24.10.22-
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Jacob van Etten, Principal Scientist and Director for Digital Inclusion, explains that the idea for…
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Meet Don Roverto and Tatiana, the robotic vehicles helping to breed better beans
20.10.22-
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Palmira, Colombia: While walking around the Alliance’s campus, in addition to the nearly one thous…
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Ginkgo Bioworks to Join Innovators from CGIAR and Beyond for a Seminar on Scaling Innovations in Cell Engineering and Biosecurity on 9 September
26.08.22-
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On 9 September at 15:00 CEST, attend the Venture-Out Event: Bridging Science and Entrepreneurship in…
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