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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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CGIAR’s new flagship report will help decision-makers transform food, land, and water systems
17.06.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the world faces unprecedented environmental and social challenges, CGIAR—the global partnership…
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CGIAR and CIFOR-ICRAF agree to strengthened collaboration
12.06.24To address the pressing challenges facing global food systems, CGIAR and The Center for Internationa…
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CGIAR and Brazil forge new partnership to strengthen food system resilience
12.06.24In a move to enhance agricultural resilience, the Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (Embrap…
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Famine in Gaza
18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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IITA holds Climate Smart Agriculture awareness session for local-level policymakers
11.05.21As part of efforts to ensure sustainability and scalability of efforts to build capacity in…
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NAQS honors IITA with “Service Support Award” for phytosanitary capacity development
27.04.21A long-time collaborator and partner, the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services (NAQS), honored …
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Africa needs empowered youth to keep pace with its population explosion—Youth champions
15.04.21With Africa’s population predicted to double by 2050, creating challenges such as high unemploymen…
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From waste to wealth: The innovation turning cassava peels into a growing new industry
05.04.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To make garri, cassava roots have to be peeled. Traditionally, the peels have been dumped…
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Zambian President commends IITA’s youth-in-ag initiative
03.04.21Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) recently facilitated an exhibition program with the th…
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IITA scientist joins advisory panel of Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development
03.04.21IITA’s Director for Eastern Africa Hub and leader for Biotechnology research, Leena Tripathi, has…
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BASICS-II kicks off partnership to promote improved cassava varieties cultivation and consumption
23.03.21SANO Foods Limited and IITA, through the Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava S…
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Women in leadership: Promoting an equal future
23.03.21The month of March hosts several gender-based celebrations, including International Women’s Day (I…
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Agriculture PS identifies priority collaboration areas with IITA to improve Tanzanian agriculture
16.03.21The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Gerald Kusaya, has said the Government…
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Crop innovation: Mitigating the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
08.03.21Adopting drought-tolerant (DT) maize varieties has helped lift millions of people above Africa’s p…
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Scaling agricultural innovations to strengthen Africa’s food systems, food safety and nutrition
26.02.21-
Nutrition
Africa’s food systems are at an inflection point. Food demand in sub-Saharan Africa is expected…
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PlantVillage NuruAI app among key innovations supporting poor farmers to cope with climate change
23.02.21In his newly launched book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and…
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The CGIAR GHUs: Making plants and the world safer through phytosanitary interventions
22.02.21Pandemic! That word strikes at the heart of global sensitivities right now. But while most…
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How crop innovation is addressing the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
21.02.21In a just-published op-ed, Martin Kropff, Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvemen…
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Young Africa Works-IITA commences multilocation training for 40,000 youth
16.02.21The Young Africa Works-IITA project commenced the first cohort of its training program in Lagos,…
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Banana breeding project successfully implements modern track and trace system
16.02.21Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
09.02.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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Gift supports Cornell’s Tanzanian cassava efforts
04.02.21An anonymous gift of $2.65 million to support Cornell and partner research in Tanzania will…
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