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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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Webinar: Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Lessons learned from South-South knowledge exchange
20.09.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this webinar on October 4, we will summarize major lessons about mechanization learned from…
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IRRI transforms rice breeding processes through market-oriented product profiling
19.09.18-
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IRRI is purposefully engaging with farmers to inform policies and establish standards that transform…
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Sharing China’s agricultural experience to help solve Africa’s development challenges
18.09.18-
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Agricultural cooperation was one of the main topics at the recent 2018 Beijing Summit of the…
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Water, ecosystems, human development – we can’t have one without the others
18.09.18-
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Keynote address by UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina MohammedPhoto by Adam Hunt / WLE…
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IWA-network.org: Re-examining the economics, engineering and water management paradigms – An interview with Claudia Sadoff
18.09.18-
Environmental health
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IWMI Director General, Claudia Sadoff, spoke to IWA about exciting initiatives that turn wealth fro…
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New Chair for ICRISAT Governing Board
14.09.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dr Paco Sereme, the Chair of ICRISAT Board’s Program Committee, will take over as the…
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Global endorsement of CGIAR work: IITA wins Africa Food Prize
14.09.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Africa Food Prize has been awarded to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IIT…
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Consumers willing to pay a premium for sustainably produced rice, a new study shows
13.09.18-
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Through behavioral market experiments, they elicited consumers’ willingness to pay for rice produc…
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Fast-tracking of new chickpea varieties for Malawi’s growing export market
10.09.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers in Malawi are optimistic of proposing the release of three new high-yielding and stress-…
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ICRISAT awarded Microsoft’s AI for Earth grant to promote environmental sustainability
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As part of its worldwide AI for Earth program, Microsoft has recently announced grants to…
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Swapping pesticides for beetles could put money in farmers' pockets
10.09.18-
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Originally published as an Op-Ed on China Dialogue, republished here with minor edits. Every time…
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Spilling the beans: FTA scientists contribute to new book about sustainable cocoa
06.09.18-
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With a distinguished editor and a variety of international experts as authors, including a number…
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Digital Tools Paving the Way for a Better Future
04.09.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
One of CGIAR’s largest, long-term funders and knowledge partners is the United States Agency for…
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WeRise-RR exhibits potential to increase rainfed rice production in Indonesia
04.09.18-
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Bogor, Indonesia, 14 August 2018 – Results of the initial on-farm experiments to validate the…
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Global trends in agricultural incentives affecting producers, consumers
30.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SIMLA TOKGOZ AND SARA GUSTAFSON The recent surge in protectionist trade measures around the worl…
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Diversity from field to fork
29.08.18-
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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1UVqf53Yo[/embed]Bioversity International collaborates with…
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Teff love: Ethiopia’s staple crop requires a big push
24.08.18-
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BY BART MINTEN, ALEMAYEHU SEYOUM TAFFESSE AND SMITA AGGARWAL Not long ago, teff—the gluten-free,…
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How to pay for watershed rehabilitation
23.08.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholders in the Ethiopian highlands pay a high price for reduced land productivity caused by…
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