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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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Exploring the potential for scaling nutritious cereal-based foods
13.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Agrifood systems contribute to at least 12 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To…
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The critical role of smallholder farmers of the Eastern Gangetic Plains in the global food chain
13.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) are vulnerable to climate change and face tremendous challenges, i…
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Elite maize seeds handed over to seed sector stakeholders in Nepal
12.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Maize is Nepal’s second most important crop for food security. Although the country’s diverse ec…
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Forging collaborative ties from south to south
11.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
More than 900 experts from 67 countries gathered for the Second International Wheat Congress, which…
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Is uptake of rust-resistant wheat linked to gender equality?
10.10.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Farmers, development practitioners and scientists gathered at Tropentag 2022 between September 14-…
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CIMMYT Annual Report 2021 launched
10.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Today, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is excited to share with you…
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Stepping up for South Asian women
07.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Women play an integral role in all stages of agrifood systems, yet their unpaid labor…
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Partnerships crucial for protecting plant health
06.10.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR research centers involved in the OneCGIAR Plant Health Initiative joined forces at the Interna…
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Expanding BISA expertise to new horizons in South Asia
05.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Ten years ago, a foundation was laid on the principles of Norman Borlaug to translate…
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Advice for food systems in crisis featured in GAP Report
04.10.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Expertise from CIMMYT on transforming food systems in a crisis-stricken world features in the yearly…
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AGG-Maize project registers impressive progress
04.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat (AGG) Project, which is halfway through its…
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The right time for the right place
30.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Wheat is a strategically important crop for Afghanistan because as a major source of nutrition…
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Special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights CIMMYT’s work on gender inclusivity
28.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
A new special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights nine influential papers published i…
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Weather data and crop disease simulations can power predictions of wheat blast outbreaks, new study shows
26.09.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Cutting-edge models for crops and crop diseases, boosted by high-resolution climate datasets, could …
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MasAgro is “a gift for Africa”
23.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Between June 20-23, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) hosted its Board o…
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Can we accelerate gender equality?
22.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In an introductory essay for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2022 Goalkeepers report, Melind…
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Integrated initiative launches in Nepal, India and Bangladesh
21.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR, in collaboration with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders, held country launc…
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Drought tolerant maize and use of forecasting in agriculture praised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
21.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The work of maize and wheat scientists at CGIAR and the International Maize and Wheat…
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