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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Unleashing the potential of Generation Z for food system transformation in Africa
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.10.24-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kibrom Abay, Clemens Breisinger, Harriet Mawia, Joyce Maru, Dorah Momanyi, and Boniface Munene…
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Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Agriculture, AfricaRice and TAAT to Build a Roadmap for Seed Sector Transformation
AfricaRice28.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Seed Business Summit, held from September 9th to 11th, 2024 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire,…
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Preventing mpox at its source through food safety and One Health strategies
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)28.10.24-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
Thinking beyond human-to-human transmission of mpox and looking at how to prevent outbreaks in the…
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ICRISAT and SKUAST Co-Develop First Cold-Tolerant Sorghum in Jammu and Kashmir, India
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.10.24-
Food security
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Nutrition
Jammu and Kashmir, in northern India, will release new forage sorghum varieties in 2025, marking…
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Water and food systems in deltas – working towards synthesis
CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas28.10.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
For the fifteenth installment of Delta Talks, the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) and…
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Mekong Delta rice farmers to benefit from new tool for prioritizing agronomy R&D
CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas28.10.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Can Tho, Vietnam (October 12, 2024) –The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Depa…
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From Theory to Action – Agriculture’s call to implement MRV for accurate climate reporting
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)28.10.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The agricultural sector contributes significantly to global GHG emissions. Accurate monitoring and m…
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UP Agriculture Ministry and IRRI announces 13th National Seed Congress
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)28.10.24-
Food security
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, (October 16, 2024) – The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare…
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What is digital sequence information’s role in agricultural research and benefit-sharing?
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
On the first day of COP16, the Alliance - together with the CGIAR Genebank Initiative…
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Colombia’s "Peace with Nature" global biodiversity conference can point to successful peacebuilding collaborations with CGIAR
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
When a peace agreement was reached in 2016 after 62 years of Colombia’s brutal conflict…
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Tackling water scarcity through strengthening leadership
CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies26.10.24This blog was originally published on India Water Portal last September 29, 2024 Mamta…
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How self-help groups are empowering women amid out-migration
CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies25.10.24This blog was originally published on IWMI's website last Oct. 16, 2024 Out-migration is a…
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Solar lift irrigation to help marginalized farmers in Nepal
CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains25.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The traditional fishing community of Bisdeutar village, located east of Kathmandu, Nepal, also farms…
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Informing Food System Transformation with Foresight: Views from Our Country Partners
CGIAR Initiative on Foresight25.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In April 2024, the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight and the Institute for Integrated Development Studie…
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Bundled technologies of beans, insects and fruit trees are poised to transform Africa’s agriculture
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)25.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Funded by a CAD $20 million grant from Global Affairs Canada, BRAINS focuses on integrating…
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Fully digital ranch at ILRI in Kenya to transform livestock research
CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation24.10.24-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At first glance, the ranch operated by the International Livestock Research Institute at the Kapiti…
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SAPLING initiative empowers youth agripreneurs in livestock through digital innovation in Tanzania
CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Animal Productivity24.10.24Authors: Gloriana Ndibalema and Godfrey Ngoteya Digital solutions are not just a trend, they are…
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Multi-Donor Fund Unlocks Financing for Africa's Small and Medium-Sized Agricultural Enterprises
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)24.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Norway and USAID also announced that Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) – a pioneering impa…
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