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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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One CGIAR cross-initative collaboration on Farming Systems Analysis in support of user-centred research and innovation
10.01.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Farming Systems Analysis (FSA) is commonly used in CGIAR to assess ‘what works where, and…
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Zambia's first farming reality TV show launched by national broadcaster
10.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The combined impacts of climate change, rising populations, scarce resources, and growing demand for…
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ILRI says farewell to Director General Jimmy Smith
10.01.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Every director general knows, at the time they are appointed, exactly when they're supposed to…
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Policy seminar: The harmful environment impacts of agricultural subsidies and prospects for reform
06.01.23-
Food security
Globally, agricultural support is high—totaling about $600 billion annually—and continues to inc…
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Ukama Ustawi holds dialogue to set policy priorities for climate-resilient agriculture in Zambia
06.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Government ministries, researchers, NGOs, businesses, and others come together to debate policy prio…
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Five ways CGIAR accelerated crop breeding in 2022
05.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR has a rich history of crop breeding results, but modern challenges abound. Too many…
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Rethinking Food Markets Initiative: Stakeholders Workshop in Nigeria
03.01.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Omobolanle Onilogbo The CGIAR Initiative on 'Rethinking Food Markets1 led by the International Fo…
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Developing and implementing Picture-Based Advisories (PBA) for farmers in Kenya
31.12.22-
Food security
IFPRI’s picture-based insurance (PBI) initiative, recognized as a CGIAR@50 Innovation and acti…
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Devising a model to capture the income and environmental impacts of Senegal's livestock value chain
30.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
The Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender inclusion’ (SAPLING) i…
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Can innovations in logistics and financial services benefit actors throughout agricultural value chains?
30.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kate Ambler, Jeff Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Eduardo Maruyama Catalyzed by changes to…
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WEAGov: A new conceptual framework to assess women’s empowerment in agricultural governance
30.12.22-
Food security
Global progress on advancing women’s empowerment within governance systems has been uneven, even a…
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Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt
29.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world…
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Una nueva iniciativa global conectará las políticas públicas relacionadas con los sistemas alimentarios en Colombia
28.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Detrás de los alimentos que ves en tu plato hay toda una historia del recorrido…
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In Tajikistan, women contribute significantly to agriculture, but does agricultural work contribute significantly to women’s agency?
23.12.22-
Food security
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tajikistan is among the lowest-income countries in Central Asia and the world, and agriculture plays…
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Los páramos, un ecosistema hoy reglamentado
22.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
En la búsqueda de acciones para el cierre de brechas de políticas en Colombia, en…
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Policy seminar: Leveraging Kenya’s new Bottom-Up Economic Plan for food system transformation
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Kenya’s new government has developed an ambitious Bottom-Up Economic Plan to tackle complex dome…
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Excellence in Agronomy highlights mechanized direct seeding in annual meeting
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
30 November 2022, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The advantages, learnings, and constraints for mechanized di…
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Advanta Seeds visit IRRI HQ to explore more potential collaborations
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Last December 5-7, a delegation from Advanta Seeds from India and the Philippines visited IRRI…
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