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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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Making sense of why spouses disagree in household surveys
18.08.20-
Gender equality
BY KATE AMBLER, CHERYL DOSS, CAITLIN KIERAN AND SIMONE PASSARELLI With women’s empowerment an i…
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Multi-national company nurtures a Climate-Smart Village, facilitates return of migrant farmers
14.08.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Plummeting groundwater levels and adverse rainfall patterns forced farmers in Buchinelli village in …
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Harvesting rains to grow fruit, vegetables and improved crops at watershed learning sites in India
07.08.20-
Gender equality
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Health
This cropping season, observing all safety measures amidst the COVID pandemic, more than a 1,000…
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Enabling Niger farmers to turn seed producers
31.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
An intensive training workshop for aspiring seed producers in Niger equipped them with necessary kno…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests study in the spotlight at COFI virtual dialogues
30.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 300 experts from over 50 countries are contributing to the Illuminating Hidden Harvests…
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2020 Global Food Policy Report: Emerging challenges of building inclusive food systems in South Asia
24.07.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
By Rebika Laishram In South Asia, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the largest disruption of…
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Soil health key priority for better livelihoods of Odisha farmers
23.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Under an extensive soil health mapping program in Odisha state, India, over 40,200 soil samples…
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Making food system value chains inclusive for smallholders and rural people
22.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Rob Vos and Khiem Nguyen Rapid urbanization and income growth are driving shifts in…
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How India’s agrifood supply chains fared during the COVID-19 lockdown, from farm to fork
20.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Sudha Narayanan Lockdowns imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted food market…
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Understanding Nairobi’s urban agriculture sector helps to enhance equality and climate resilience
18.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Food makes up almost half of trading in the vibrant informal sector of Kenya's capital…
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New IFAD/CGIAR note on Gender and Pastoralism: Issues to consider, tools to use
17.07.20-
Gender equality
Women’s participation in community governance and local development is often limited by patriarcha…
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Phone surveys to understand gendered impacts of COVID-19: A cautionary note
14.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 continue to evolve, researchers have been using…
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Gender research in One CGIAR: Where do we go from here?
13.07.20-
Gender equality
That’s the question gender researchers from across CGIAR will attempt to answer when they come…
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Legume farmer fab labs design seeds that work for family farms, women and the market.
10.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Protein and micronutrient-packed legumes like cowpea, groundnut, beans or chickpea are important cro…
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Malian farmer sets an example as a successful seed producer
10.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer field schools in Mali are not only training local farmers in best practices for…
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Women and youth turning to tree-based enterprises for livelihoods in Mount Elgon, Uganda
10.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the Mount Elgon region, women and youth comprise a critical labour force for farming.…
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Nicoline de Haan appointed as Director of the CGIAR GENDER Platform
08.07.20-
Gender equality
Dr Nicoline de Haan has been appointed as the Director of the CGIAR GENDER Platform,…
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Should low-income countries decentralize their COVID-19 responses?
08.07.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues As countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, some have…
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